Therapy for Toddlers & Preschoolers in Indiana

Your Investment

This is more than paying for a therapy session

When you invest in therapy with me, you're not simply paying for 50 minutes of my time.

You're investing in learning, practicing, and changing the way you respond to your child so that you can feel more confident when your child's emotions and behaviors become overwhelming.

This is intensive work. It requires your time, attention, effort, and consistency.

And that's intentional.

Because you are the person who is with your child more than any other professional ever will be. When you learn how to understand your child and respond in ways that help them regulate, connect, and learn, you're giving them skills and experiences that extend far beyond our time together.

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What Your Investment Includes

Twice-weekly therapy

For families experiencing significant behavioral or emotional challenges, I typically recommend meeting twice a week:

One weekly parenting therapy session
One weekly parent-child therapy session

For children experiencing more severe or complex behavioral or emotional challenges, three sessions per week may be recommended:

One weekly parenting therapy session
Two weekly parent-child therapy sessions

When your child's behaviors are less severe, meeting once a week may be appropriate.

Learning the strategies

I won't simply tell you what to do.

You'll learn why your child is responding the way they are, how to recognize what is happening in the moment, and how to respond differently.

You'll have opportunities to practice those skills with my guidance and receive feedback along the way.

Practicing between sessions

The work doesn't stop when our session ends.

You'll practice what you're learning in your real life with your child.

One of the things I ask parents to do is five minutes of Special Time with their child every day.

It sounds small.

But those five minutes, done consistently, can become an important part of strengthening your relationship with your child.

Looking at your own patterns

Sometimes knowing what to do isn't enough.

You may understand the strategy intellectually and still find yourself freezing, becoming overwhelmed, getting angry, or falling back into responses you don't actually want to use.

That's where the parenting therapy comes in.

We'll look at what's happening underneath the pattern, including the emotions, beliefs, experiences, and subconscious responses that may be getting in the way.

The goal isn't to blame you.

It's to help you understand yourself well enough to parent according to your values rather than reacting from old patterns.

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Consistency Matters

For therapy to work, and especially for it to work efficiently, we need to meet consistently.

When you begin therapy with me, you're reserving regular appointment times in my practice. I intentionally work with a small number of families because I want to have time to think deeply about each case, prepare for sessions, and tailor treatment to the specific needs of your family.

I also continually invest in my own education through specialized trainings, books, consultation, and supervision so that I can continue developing as a child and parent therapist.

Your regular appointment time is part of your investment. Think of it like tuition at a daycare or private school: you are paying to reserve your place for the duration of your enrollment, rather than purchasing individual sessions.

For this reason, your designated appointment times are your financial responsibility for the duration of our therapeutic arrangement, whether or not you are able to attend.

I ask families to commit to consistent twice-weekly therapy so that we can maintain momentum and make the most of our work together.

If you need to miss a session

If you are unable to attend a scheduled session, you may make up that session within the week before, during, or after the missed appointment, if our schedules align. I will make every reasonable effort to find another available time for you.

Because your regular appointment time is reserved specifically for you, a missed session that cannot be made up is still charged at the regular session rate.

If you need to reschedule, please give me at least 48 hours' notice whenever possible. With less than 48 hours' notice, I may not be able to offer a make-up time, and the scheduled session remains your financial responsibility.

You do not pay for sessions that I cancel. I will give you advance notice of my planned time off.

Why I have this policy

This policy allows me to reserve the time and clinical capacity needed to provide intensive, individualized care to a small number of families.

It also protects the consistency of your child's treatment. When we're meeting regularly and you have the opportunity to practice what you're learning between sessions, we're able to keep building on the work rather than repeatedly starting over.

You're not simply purchasing two 50-minute appointments each week. You're reserving a place in an intensive therapeutic process.

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You're Not Just Paying for 50 Minutes

When you work with me, you're getting more than a PCIT session, a child therapy, or a weekly parenting appointment.

I bring together several areas of expertise.

More than PCIT

I am a PCIT Certified Therapist, but my work doesn't stop at real-time parent-child coaching.

You will also have the opportunity to do deeper parenting therapy to understand the patterns underneath your reactions, explore what gets activated for you and your child, and develop ways of parenting that are more aligned with your values.

More than child therapy

Many child therapists work primarily with the child individually.

My primary focus is different.

I want to help you learn how to therapeutically respond to your child.

Because you're the person who will be there when your child melts down at home, struggles with a transition, becomes overwhelmed in public, or has a difficult day at daycare.

I want you to know what to do.

More than adult therapy

I'm not simply an adult therapist who happens to work with parents.

My work is grounded in early childhood development, child mental health, parent-child relationships, and the way young children communicate through their behavior.

That combination matters when you're trying to understand what is happening between you and your child.

What Parents Have Gained From This Work

Every family is different, and I can't predict exactly what will change through therapy. What I can tell you is what parents I've worked with have experienced as a result of doing this work.

Families I work with have described:

A more connected, loving, and joyful relationship with their child
Tantrums that become shorter, less intense, and less frequent
Better communication and cooperation, with fewer explosive outbursts
Feeling more confident, grounded, and capable as a parent
A child who develops new skills for managing big emotions
A child who is happier and better able to navigate everyday challenges
A child who develops stronger social skills and has an easier time making friends
A child who is doing better at daycare, wants to go to school, and is enjoying their time there more
Parents reconnecting with their own inner wisdom and feeling more aligned with their values as they parent

But the work goes deeper than changing behavior.

Parents begin to see that the emotions themselves aren't the problem.

Anger, frustration, sadness, fear, excitement and all of our emotions give us information. They can help us understand what is happening underneath the behavior and what both the parent and child may need.

The goal isn't to control your child's emotions or make anger disappear.

The goal is to understand what the emotions are telling you.

As parents develop this deeper awareness, they become better at solving problems, responding to what is actually happening, and making decisions that are more aligned with their values.

They also begin to understand themselves differently.

They may notice the things that trigger them, the ways they learned to respond to emotions growing up, and the difference between reacting automatically and responding intentionally.

And this matters because life is lifey.

New challenges will come. Things will happen that none of us could have predicted. A move, a new sibling, a change at school, a difficult relationship, illness, stress, or simply a new developmental stage can throw a family off balance.

Sometimes, when that happens, a child may temporarily regress. Parents may have a moment of thinking, Wait. Are we back where we started?

Usually, we're not.

As we process what happened and look at it together, parents begin to see their own strengths and their child's strengths. They start to notice something important:

Their child is doing better at navigating hard things.

They're learning how to be a human in this world.

And so are we.

The goal isn't to raise a child who never gets angry, never melts down, or never struggles.

The goal is to become wiser about emotions, not afraid of them.

Because when we try to suppress, control, or get rid of our emotions, they don't necessarily go away. Sometimes they just find another way to come out.

When we can feel our emotions, understand them, and listen to what they're telling us, they can become a source of information, connection, and wisdom.

This isn't quick-fix behavior management. It's deeper work built on trust, relationship, and evidence-based care.

The Financial Investment

$250 per 50-minute session

Families typically participate in therapy twice a week, with one parenting therapy session and one parent-child therapy session.

That means the typical investment is $500 per week.

Meetings, consultation, and coordination with other professionals are billed at the same rate, based on the amount of time spent.

This is a significant investment.

I don't expect it to be the right investment for every family.

But if you're at the point where you don't want to lose another daycare, you don't want to keep guessing, and you're ready to do the work, intensive therapy may be exactly the kind of support you've been looking for.