
Location
About
Finances
- Cost per Session: $150 - $200
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beacon Health Options
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Highmark
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 45 Years
- License: Pennsylvania / CW017456
- School: University of Pittsburgh
- Year Graduated: 1994
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Pittsburgh Crime Victims Center / Mediation/Conflict Resolution
- Certificate Date: 2005
Margaret Mary Christopher's Groups
Children's Social Skills Group
Children learn leadership skills, problem-solving skills, conflict resolution skills and emotional regulation and management in a group setting through discussion, enjoyable group activities, and the the group's development of a musical event that is presented to senior citizens each year. Parents of participating children also meet with me individually or as couples so that they can reinforce what the children are learning in the group at home. Although the children are in a group setting, each one receives a in-depth multidisciplinary assessment and has an individualized intervention plan.
Parenting Group
Parents meet weekly or bi-weekly to establish developmental and educational goals for their infants, toddlers, and/or pre-school aged children and to obtain help in meeting these goals. Each child is assessed before the group begins to determine what goals and methodologies are most appropriate for them. Parents of special needs children, including those who appear to be gifted and talented, are welcome, along with those parents who are parenting children whose development is consistent with the norms for each age
Location
Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Behavioral Issues
- Domestic Abuse
Issues
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Caregiving
- Child
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Coping Skills
- Cyberschool and Other Forms of Homeschooling
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Intellectual Disability
- Life Coaching
- Marital and Premarital
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Testing and Evaluation
Mental Health
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
- Children (6 to 10)
- Toddler
Communities
- Aviation Professionals
- Cancer
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Interpersonal
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative
- Play Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family