All kids act out from time to time, feel sad or angry or respond to family, friends and school in a way that shows they are upset, worried or frustrated. Many times these children and teens need to talk to a person who understands how hard it is sometimes to be a kid and can offer insight and guidance. The child’s feelings may come from problems in the family such as martial problems, divorce, sibling rivalry or other stressful situations like moving homes or schools.
Located on our campus in Kearny Mesa, the SDCC Counseling Center can help your child, teen and family members through these tough times. The goal of our therapists is to move your child toward becoming a productive adult by providing him or her with the tools to understand and control emotions and behaviors.
Therapists also work directly with you and family members, offering guidance on how to interact with the child at home while providing ongoing support through counseling and education.
The Counseling Center offers individual, group, family and marital counseling.
Let us help. Call us at (858) 569-2101.
Phone: 858-268-9800
Integrative Psychological & Assessment Services
4565 Ruffner Street, Suite 108
San Diego, CA 92111
Office (858) 268-9800
Toll free (866)804-5538
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My clinical experience has specialized in working with children, adolescents and their families. I interned for a year at Rady Children’s Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry offering outpatient therapy to children, adolescents, and their families. I then worked at The San Diego Center for Children in a residential treatment (level 14) program for six years as a therapist for emotionally disturbed children, young adolescents, and their families. These children and their families often had experienced sexual, verbal, and/or physical abuse and/or severe neglect and abandonment.
In these settings I gained experience doing individual, group, and family therapy, working with parents on parenting difficulties, helping parents navigate the school systems to get their children’s needs met with teachers or through IEP meetings, and connecting families with other needed community resources. I currently have a private practice as an outpatient therapist at Integrative Psychological & Assessment Services in Kearny Mesa
I have had post-graduate training in play therapy, gestalt therapy, expressive arts, and techniques for working with how the body holds in emotions and stress such as trauma releasing exercises, relaxation skills, and yoga. I feel it is important to develop therapeutic relationships with my clients in order to work through these modalities to allow expression of thoughts and feelings in order to let what is inside out. These techniques also enhance a child’s coping techniques of learning to appropriately express their feelings and build their self-esteem by gaining a sense of mastery.
Specialties:
Children
Adolescents
Families
Effects of child abuse
Mood disorders such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar.
Grief and loss issues
Anger management
Parenting difficulties
Effects and adjustment to divorce
ADHD
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Adoptions
Social skills
Oppositional behaviors
Crisis intervention
General adjustment to life stressors.