Intensive therapy for Toddlers and Preschoolers in Indiana

How Do I Help My Child?

When you’re exhausted from tantrum after tantrum, it might feel like you don’t have any time or energy for therapy.

With just 5 minutes of daily therapeutic play, you can help your child start learning how to be calmer, more regulated, and kinder.

What to Expect

• Reach out 

• Complete paperwork before the intake

• Intake: 

  • Parent(s) only 

  • 50-60 minute session to learn about you and your child

• Therapy: 50-minute sessions

  • Weekly parent–child therapy (with child)

  • Weekly parenting therapy (without child)

  • 3-phase treatment 

• Graduate and celebrate!

3-Phase Treatment

Phase 1: Reduce Explosions

Our first goal is to reduce emotional and behavioral blowups by building calm and connection. I teach you therapeutic ways of playing and coach you using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and skills to support your child’s emotional development. 

You’ll start with 5 minutes of therapeutic play every day. Children with big emotions need therapy daily. Over time, you’ll naturally use these skills outside of play, too.

Your child will feel like you are playing. You will start noticing real changes as your skills grow.

Phase 2: Learning to Listen

This phase focuses on helping your child listen and follow directions. We’ll assess whether phase 2 of PCIT is the best fit or if other play-based interventions are more appropriate.

Phase 3: Finishing Strong

We focus on any remaining goals. When you and your child meet your therapy goals, you graduate! We will have a celebration session together to highlight all the progress and show your child how proud you are of them.  
Some children may need longer-term support due to what they have been through, their neurodivergence, and/or other high needs. We can either continue therapy if needed or I can refer you to excellent play therapists in town.

Types of Therapy

Parent-Child Therapy

In parent-child therapy, you will use therapeutic play with your child. I’ll teach you and coach you so you know exactly what to do. As you interact with your child, I’ll coach you in real time, helping you “translate” your child’s behaviors and understand how to respond to promote healthy interactions. These skills typically generalize to the child’s behavior at school. Parents I’ve worked with consistently report improvements in their child’s behavior at daycare.

Parenting Therapy

In parenting therapy, you will start by learning strategies tailored to your child’s needs. For example, you will learn to identify different levels of your child’s dysregulation and how to respond to each one. As we move forward, you will begin processing the subconscious patterns affecting you and your child and learning how to shift them into more helpful patterns. You and I will collaborate because you are the expert on your child, and I bring expertise in Early Childhood Mental Health.

There are a lot of things you can do to help your child, reach out and let’s get started!