Children of divorce are very likely to experience profound grief. The world they had come to rely on and develop their identities around has been turned upside down and inside out. Changes in routine and family dynamics are often destabilizing and confusing. For many children one or both parents will be absent at times when they had previously been present. Divorce can trigger stress, anxiety or depression in children, and may even impact academic and social development as well. With our support, families can actually absolutely minimize the impact of separation and divorce on their children's mental health. Co-parenting therapy can help lessen conflict and promote collaboration, as a family creatively redefines their family structure. Single parents often carry increased burdens and may need support to develop healthy strategies to regain their balance and feel empowered. And children may benefit from individual therapy where they can find an impartial and compassionate adult to listen and validate their experience, ultimately developing resilience, self-esteem and strategies to navigate the new family system. We are here for any combination of therapies that may be helpful to allow the family, individually and collectively, to redefine itself in a way that clarifies the love, connection and stability remain central and as strong as ever, even though the structure of the family has changed.

Supporting families through a teenager's struggle with disordered eating can be incredibly daunting. We offer compassionate individual and family therapy tailored to address these complex issues with you. At the core of disordered eating is a sense that "I am not good enough just as I am…" that the food is an effort to cope with. The relationship to food and body becomes a solution to what feels like an unsolvable problem and our therapeutic approach seeks to change root cause into something that can be addressed directly! Along the way, we provide valuable resources and referrals to assist with effective case management, ensuring you can access the support you need at every step. We treat eating disorders from a Family Systems approach, understanding that these struggles often involve complex dynamics within the family unit itself. Our clinicians have experience treating both the person struggling with eating and their family members, helping everyone to understand the pain, discomfort, fear and disconnection the eating disorder is actually speaking for. In this way, we deeply recognize that eating disorders impact the entire family. In addition to working with eating disorders, we also address general body image issues and the effects of social media on our children and teens, particularly in this post-COVID era.

We all want the best for our children and have so many hopes and dreams for how their true essence and natures will manifest. From a place of positive intentions, as parents we work to connect their talents and strengths with real-world applications that will support our kids to becoming the best version of themselves! Unfortunately, this can actually back-fire in unhealthy ways and our kids end up feeling less intrinsic motivation, more depression, stress and anxiety, and a deep sense of "not enoughness" that can lead to higher risk behaviors and even self-harming. What began as a hope for the best has become a hard-driving internal critic that loops on thoughts of "broken" "defective" "not good enough" that are deeply painful and even paralyzing. This was never the intention and yet our teens are often living under intense pressure from deep within themselves to attain the kind of success and achievement that we wanted for them and that has been cultivated as a dream for their own lives. We are here to help! We can relieve the pressure and allow for more room for who we really are to unfold and manifest our true potential without the internal criticism as the constant accompaniment. Healthy success is possible when it comes from a sense of wellbeing, wholeness and enough freedom of choice to feel trustworthy of self-leadership which our teen and family therapy seeks to provide.