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Children's Therapy

children's therapy

We believe that childhood should be a time for healthy growth and development with a happy family. For many children and teens, it is a time of great emotional stress. Children react to stress in many ways including withdrawal and acting out behaviors at home and school. Parents and school personnel want to help children become happy, loving adults, however in today’s society this can be a difficult goal. Our philosophy is to help children and families learn the life skills necessary to be successful. Click on the link to read more about children's therapy.

Family Therapy

family therapy

Family counseling may help to promote better relationships and understanding within a family. It may be incident specific, as for example family counseling during a divorce, or a child experiencing trauma. Alternately family counseling may address the needs of the family when one family member suffers from a mental or physical illness that alters his or her behavior or habits in negative ways. The therapist often helps the family reflect on better ways of communicating with each other and because of that family counseling may in part be instruction and encouragement. In fact, family counseling often teaches family members new and more positive ways to communicate to replace old, negative communication patterns.

 

Marriage Therapy

A couple doing marriage therapy in Phoenix, AZ

Marriage counseling seeks to identify areas of conflict and communication in a marriage and facilitate healthy ways of resolving them. If problems in a marriage aren’t identified or dealt with in a timely manner, they can grow out of control and bring devastation and possibly an end to the marriage. There is no such thing as a perfect marriage. Marriage counseling helps a marriage weather the storms and rebound stronger as a result of the counseling. Counseling helps a couple focus on their problems in a marriage and resolves them. Most problems include poor communication, a lack of intimacy, anger or nagging.

Individual Adult Therapy

adult therapy

Individual psychotherapy for adults offers a compassionate approach to therapy, which encourages clients to explore how limiting beliefs and trauma are held in the body—often below the level of conscious awareness. Specialties include trauma and PTSD; chronic illness including fibromyalgia, IBS, Lupus, insomnia, chronic fatigue and cancer.  Other issues addressed include grief and loss; emotional struggles such as shame, depression, anger and anxiety, and relationship problems.  Counselors have extensive post- graduate training in Self Regulation Therapy, a gentle approach that enables the nervous system to integrate overwhelming events and bring balance to the nervous system. Additionally they are trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

 

How to Train your Amygdala

By Deborah Pettitt | January 19, 2026

This month I thought I would write a review of a children’s book How to Train Your Amygdala by Anna Housley Juster. This would be great to read with your child to learn about the amygdala and to practice the training strategies.  Reading it together can build positive connections, building new pathways in the brain…

Christmas Quotes – Part 2

By Deborah Pettitt | December 12, 2025

I thought I would share more of my favorite quotes this month for celebrating Christmas, I hope they a smile to your face and thankfulness to your heart. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens.   “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing,…

Glass Child

By Megan Meyer | October 31, 2025

If you’ve ever felt torn between meeting one child’s extra needs and making sure the other(s) feel seen, you’re not alone. Many parents in this situation are doing their best to hold everything together — balancing therapy appointments, medical needs, school supports, and emotional care. Yet, even with all the love in the world, the…

Part 2 – Quotes about Children

By Deborah Pettitt | October 9, 2025

This month I thought I would give you some more of my favorite quotes about children, after all they are our future. And one just for fun from Erma Bombeck: If you would like to read part 1 of our “quotes about children“, click on the link.

Understanding the Protective Response

By Deborah Pettitt | September 2, 2025

In Brain-Body Parenting, Dr. Mona Delahooke explains the concept of the protective response—a child’s instinctive reaction to perceived threats, which often manifests as challenging behavior. Rather than viewing these behaviors as intentional defiance or manipulation, Delahooke urges parents to understand them as nervous system-driven responses rooted in a child’s internal sense of safety. She introduces…

Sandtray has many uses

By Danen Downs | July 28, 2025

Our work with adolescents and teens often involves learning how to successfully regulate our emotions.  And the first step to learning how to regulate emotions is to first increase our awareness of our particular emotional states and how we move between them.  I often use sandtray with clients to help build and organize this awareness…

The Role of Interoception

By Deborah Pettitt | July 7, 2025

Chapter 6 of Brain-Body Parenting by Dr. Mona Delahooke, is titled “Making Sense of the Senses: How Emotions Arise from the Body’s Experience of the World.” The chapter looks into the relationship between sensory experiences and emotional regulation in children. Delahooke emphasizes that children’s behaviors are influenced by their sensory processing systems, which shape how…

Healing Developmental Trauma

By Deborah Pettitt | May 23, 2025

At our agency, we specialize in the treatment of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)—a condition rooted in chronic, early-life trauma that disrupts the brain’s natural developmental trajectory. The first three years of life are critical: during this time, the brain forms up to 90% of its neural pathways, shaping how we connect, regulate, and respond to the…