Child Therapists in East Central, Spokane, WA

As a parent, you're deeply invested in your child's well-being, constantly ensuring their needs are met. Yet, it's disheartening when you see them struggling emotionally or behaviorally, leaving you feeling anxious and questioning your own abilities. Parenting is undeniably challenging, full of unexpected hurdles that can leave you feeling out of your depth. Seeking help is a sign of strength, and you're here because you're ready to make a positive change for your child. You're committed to helping your child gain confidence, emotional intelligence, and grit. Let's embark on this journey together.

**Accepting New Clients** Life can sometimes leave you feeling alone, stressed, or overwhelmed. Reaching out for help can be challenging and confusing. When you find the right counselor to share your story with, your journey can be rewarding and empowering. My passion is to support you to find healing and balance in your life. I have a holistic (mind, body, spirit) perspective utilizing a strengths-based approach to support you with meeting your mental health needs.

I work with individuals and families from an attachment perspective. I have worked extensively with children ages three and up in individual and family therapy, utilizing play, art and talk therapies to help individuals handle challenging situations at home and/or school, or within their own internal world. I can help children build resilience, self-reliance, and their self-regulatory skills. I work with parents, helping them to better meet their children's needs while fostering a better relationship. I work with adults on the myriad of life transitions they are working through, helping them better cope with their everyday stresses.

I work with individuals, couples and families from an attachment perspective. I specialize in working with children and parents who are struggling with behavior issues, understanding their child's unique temperament, or children who have experienced trauma. In addition, I work with individuals with eating disorders, depression and anxiety.

I enjoy working with children, adolescents, and adults who seek support for improvement in functioning towards health and healing experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and behavioral issues. Together we build insight, coping skills, identity and esteem, and new patterns. My approach is strengths-based offering consistency, transparency, collaboration, openness, compassion, affirmation and encouragement, experience in the field, rapport and relational importance, and measurement and check-in on progress to ensure you are meeting your goals and making the progress you want to see.

I have a Master's degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Marriage and Family Therapy, and have been in practice for over 25 years. I am a Washington State designated as a Child Mental Health Specialist and a Registered Circle of Security Parent Educator. Over my years in practice, I have worked with families, couples, adolescents, and individuals. The goal of therapy is to help you understand yourself and others within a relationship. My goal is to help you see your behavior patterns at a processing level, so you may disrupt these patterns for new, healthy behaviors. For example, ending chronic people-pleasing habits.

If you or your teen recognize the need to make some changes in your life, but what you have been doing or perhaps what you have avoided doing isn't working anymore, I hope you will give me an opportunity to get you headed on the right path. Whether the challenges are related to high emotions, poor coping, depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts or trauma, I can help you learn new things about yourself and integrate tools and strategies to make living your best life easier.

When first beginning treatment, I focus on building trust and relationship. It is important to me that you feel comfortable and we will move at your pace. I am relaxed in my practice and my aim is for this to be a time that is helpful for you. I incorporate many different treatment modalities depending on the individual need of the client. I specialize in treatment of anxiety disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; behavior disorders, depression, and ADHD.

You are worthy of being seen, known and deeply understood—my hope is that beginning in our first meeting together, you, your relationship or your child will experience that. Offering ourselves grace, holding ourselves with compassion, and tuning into our own needs can be challenging. Especially when we are experiencing anxiety, depression, a difficult life transition, or a conflict in relationship. You don't have to do it alone.

Our patient's want freedom. They want to reclaim their dignity and restore life balance. Our staff are proficient in a variety of different approaches such as CBT, Affirmative Therapy, DBT, and EMDR. Our areas of practice including substance use disorders, co-occurring disorders, major depressive disorder, trauma, anxiety and panic disorders, bipolar type 1 and 2, couples, PTSD, children, teens, and many LGBTQ related needs. We also proudly offer medication management for our community members.

Greetings! I'm Kaaren ("car-in" the garage). I work with individuals, both adults and children aged 12 and under. I have a particular interest in supporting those in mid- to later stages of aging, including end-of-life. Namely, how to find meaningful ways to navigate changes in one's capabilities and social support systems. For children grappling with emotional, behavioral, and relational difficulties, I employ developmentally appropriate methods such as play therapy to understand their sense of self and others. I help parents decipher their child's needs and behaviors so they can respond more effectively.

As human beings, we want healthy and happy relationships. These are vital to our emotional and mental well-being. We want to be our honest, authentic selves and trust that others will be there for us. However, despite our best efforts, things can get in the way. Our emotions, our past, anxiety and depression all affect how we interact with people we care about. Counseling allows for you to sit with someone who has no judgement toward you and your circumstances. I am simply here to help.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed, uncertain, confused or frustrated? Or perhaps you have a child who struggles with challenges of their own? It is my passion to help adults, children, and their families. Asking for help can be one of the most challenging tasks in life. It is my hope to help you with that challenge. I look forward to learning how I can help you in your process of finding relief and piece of mind. I would like to work with you to assist you in overcoming the challenges you may be experiencing. My office is in close proximity to Spokane.

I am passionate about working with individuals, couples, families, and children who are seeking healing and restoration. Whether you’re dealing with relationship issues, difficult family circumstances, trauma recovery, depression, anxiety, or other concerns, it would be my pleasure to walk with you in your journey. There is no circumstance to small to seek out professional help. Counseling can increase one's own understanding of their behaviors and thoughts, while also increasing their self-esteem and ability to communicate with those around them.

I am a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with 30 years of direct experience. I have worked with diverse populations and Washington State endorses me as a Child Mental Health Specialist and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist (Native and African American populations). I hold licenses in multiple states in both mental health as well as chemical dependency. I am the author of multiple Amazon best-sellers including 'Elements of Self-Destruction', 'Borderline Personality Disorder' (co-authored with Jacquie Gunn), and 'Elements of Reparation'. Above all, I am a proud father of two and a husband.

I am a child & adolescent psychologist specializing in OCD, PANS/PANDAS, anxiety, FNSD/conversion disorder, hoarding, panic attacks, school avoidance, skin-picking, and hair-pulling. I take an individualized approach to treatment with a foundation of evidence-based strategies. I work closely with families to help them manage symptoms in their normal, day-to-day life. Teletherapy gives me the opportunity to practice skills with your child in their home or other environments anxiety impacts them the most. For example, I often conduct "exposures" with youth, which teaches them skills to challenge anxiety in real-life situations.

I provide counseling services for children, youth, young adults, adults and families. I utilize a variety of orientations, methods and techniques, based on what is most appropriate for my clients at any given time. Together with clients I explore their unique selves, including their thoughts, feelings and experiences. My goal is to accompany them on their healing journey towards empowerment, greater self-awareness, knowledge and hope. I also aim to assist clients in identifying how their life experiences have helped make them the person they are and to recognize areas where they may have gotten stuck.

Counseling is an investment in YOU and the people in your life who matter most. I work with individuals, couples, & families. I know that a person’s wellbeing and growth is influenced by their family systems and closest relationships. Attachment Based therapy serves as a scientific and theoretical foundation from which I am grounded.

Adolescence and early adulthood is one of the most trying times in a person's life. The journey of self-identity is difficult enough, and when mental or behavioral health disorders complicate or accompany this experience, the process can be all that more difficult. I enjoy meeting people where they are and helping teens and young adults work through identity issues, personal struggles, or complex life transitions. I have extensive knowledge and experience treating anxiety, depression, substance use disorders and enjoy the unique elements each of my clients bring to the therapy process.