Children & Teens
***Please Note: When working with children and adolescents, the research indicates that treatment is most effective and quickest when the family system is included in treatment. Our success is due to our steadfast commitment to consisent and required Parent Training and parental involvement in treatment.***
We LOVE working with Littles (for some of our providers, the littler the better! We work as young as infant-parent dyads and work extensively with pre-schoolers), LOVE working with Kiddos (early childhood through late childhood), and also LOVE working with angsty pre-teens and adolescents. We speak Child and Teen fluently. We love helping Littles, Kiddos, and Adolescents (and their families) work through the following issues (obviously, not an exhaustive list of what we can help with. If you are wondering if we are a good fit for your child, teen, or family, feel free to reach out to us).
Our Pediatric Team: Dr. Hastings, Ms. Amanda Owen, and Dr. McNally. We love silliness.
- Adoption and Post-Adoption
- Adoptee needs
- Adoptive/Birth Family Dynamics
- Anxiety/nervousness
- Anger, outbursts, and tantrums
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Blended biological and adoptive families
- Blended families (e.g. divorce and remarriage)
- Bonding and Attachment Obstacles
- Breaking intergenerational cycles (e.g. parents who grew up treated a certain way or with a family culture they do not want to recreate in the families they form)
- Communication skills
- Defiant behaviors (home and school)
- Depression and depressive disorders
- Developmental Disabilities
- Discipline strategies and skills
- Difficulty with attention
- Families formed through Reproductive Technology (e.g IUI, IVF, sperm and egg donors, embryo donors, gestational surrogacy)
- Feeding and picky eating problems
- Grief and Loss
- Harmonizing Your Home Program: Dr. Hastings has combined several of the most effective child/family treatments available into a unique program. Using Dr. Hastings’ HYH model, we have been consistently successful at significantly reducing disruptive and damaging child behavior (physical and verbal aggression, revenge seeking, school refusal, avoidance, compulsions, tantrums, etc.).
- Hair Pulling (Trichotillomania), a type of Body Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB)
- Life transitions (relocation, family changes, divorce)
- Moodiness and mood swings
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Parent Management Training
- Parenting Skills (neuro-typical and special needs children)
- Parent-child bond and relationship building
- Separation Anxiety
- Sibling of a child with disabilities
- Sibling conflict
- Sleep Problems (e.g. refusal to sleep in own bed)
- Skin-Picking (excoriation), a type of Body Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB)
- Social Skills
- Stress
- Toileting Difficulties (e.g. nighttime bed wetting, poop refusal, toilet learning)
- Transitioning parenting approaches between childhood and adolescence
- Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)