During your first appointment, which is called a therapy intake appointment, your therapist will do a thorough assessment to understand your concerns as well as your difficulties and strengths.

For children, the therapy intake appointment will be a parents/caregiver only meeting so that you can discuss all of your concerns openly and create a context for our work together. The next session will include an interaction with your child/teenager so that we can further evaluate their needs. For adults,  the intake appointment will include a meeting with you and potentially with certain family members if you believe it will be helpful.

During the intake appointment, we will let you know if additional testing is necessary to make a correct diagnosis. We will  discuss the results of the therapy intake assessment and design a treatment plan that will be most effective for your concerns based on scientific research. We will regularly measure treatment progress to make sure that the treatment is working effectively and adjust it when appropriate. 

Clinicians at Thriving Child Center are experts in helping your family choose and apply a treatment that has the most scientific support. We will choose the best treatment, explain how and why the treatment will help your family, describe what the treatment entails, and ensure that you are comfortable moving forward. Commonly-used treatments at Thriving Child Center include:

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Children, adolescents, adults and their families come to treatment for a range of problems.  Here are some common problems treated at Thriving Child Center:

• Behavior problems, such as not listening, throwing tantrums, acting out, getting in trouble at school

• Depression, sadness

• Anxiety and worries

• School stress

• Trouble coping with a scary/traumatic event

• Trouble coping with the death of someone important

• Suicidal thoughts or self-harming behaviors

• Difficulty making friends

• Bullying

• Discrimination base don neurodiversity (Autism and ADHD)

• Parental separation or loss

• Adjusting to changes