Living with a serious illness like cancer or a chronic condition, or watching a loved one go through it, can be confusing, isolating, and highly emotional for children and teens. Therapy will help your young one to feel supported and safe through this unimaginable time, while reminding them that they can still be a kid.

SUPPORT FOR:

• Anxiety, depression, specific phobias, big emotions related to illness

• Fear of treatment, medical environments, or changes in the body

• Navigating shifts in family dynamics, roles, and routines

• Supporting communication with friends, family, medical team and others about illness,

  needs, and boundaries

• Processing uncertainty and building emotional resilience

• Navigating grief related to death or non-death loss

• Learning to live life to the fullest in the midst of illness

• Strengthening self confidence, self identity, and self-advocacy

THERAPEUTIC APPROACH:

There is no “one size fits all” to therapy, so I tailor my therapeutic approach based on the needs of each individual client.

• Strengths-based, mindfulness, psychosomatic therapies

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Existentialism

• Grief Therapy

• Person-Centered Therapy

• Play Therapy

• Exposure and Response Prevention (as needed for OCD or specific phobias)

*In addition to cancer, I have experience in supporting children, adolescents, young adults and families experiencing chronic medical conditions such as muscular dystrophy, ALS, chronic migraines, cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, celiac disease, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, food intolerances and unknown chronic illness.

Watch a workshop that I led at Cancer Support Community titled “Frankly Speaking About Cancer: What Do I Tell the Kids?”