Treatment Areas

Building capacities to control impulses and regulate strong emotions without resorting to numbing and shutting down emotions
Addressing psychological defenses of emotional avoidance and constriction
Overcoming social isolation by learning to trust and open up to others
Learning how to engage in secure emotional bonding with close family and friends
Building capacities for directly dealing with conflicts and disagreements in ways that promote mutual respect, empathy, and understanding
Accepting emotions and learning to be more emotionally real and honest
Developing compassion, acceptance, and understanding for self and others
Learning to express healthy anger and assertiveness instead of out-of-control anger and aggression
Growing an internal sense of healthy pride, humility, and self-esteem
Building strengths of mental resilience, toughness, and perservence
Clarifying personal values and living with purpose and moral integrity
Developing a clear vision of personal moral values and organizing activities around higher moral aims
Discovering and staying engaged with something greater than ourselves to expand our sense of meaning and purpose

Strengthening relationship bonds
Improving emotion regulation for kids & parents
Improving communication
Resolving conflict
Increasing emotional understanding & empathy
Promoting the child's growth & resilience
Understanding parental attachment history & how this shapes current relationship challenges