our services
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy can help clients by providing psychoeducation of symptoms relating to a diagnosis, enabling clients to live more productive and satisfying lives, developing coping skills, assisting individuals with managing new situations & challenges, improving relationships, and making positive changes in their lives.
Family Therapy
Family therapy assists clients by focusing on the relationships within the family unit. The family is seen as a system rather than the sum of its individual members.
Family therapy services can address a number of therapeutic goals including improving communication among family members, solving family problems, understanding and handling family events, understanding family dynamics, and creating a more harmonious home environment.
Caregiver/Parent Coaching
Caregiver or Parent Coaching helps to rebuild or strengthen the current child-caregiver relationship. Clinicians work to promote connection and communication while teaching caregivers skills to establish consistent expectations for their children.
Caregivers learn tools to parent their children based on presenting challenges or diagnostic symptomatology. and can include direct modeling and monitoring of strategies and interventions. Parent coaching is done from a positive parenting model using evidence-based modalities such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.
Behavioral Assessment
Behavioral Assessment provides a formal assessment and evaluation of your child’s behavior across environments. Assessments typically include collecting and analyzing data to look at the interrelatedness of antecedent components of your child’s behavior, the consequences of the behavior, and the behavioral function.
Behavioral assessments identify the behavior’s reinforcing factors and present recommendations and services necessary for behavioral modification and skill acquisition.
Behavioral Intervention Plans
Behavioral Intervention Plans provide a written, systematic improvement plan for your child based on the outcomes of a Behavioral Assessment. Behavioral Intervention Plans specify the actions to take to develop, improve, replace, or extinguish behaviors. Our behaviorists can develop and train teachers, and caregivers on the implementation and fidelity of these plans.
Behavioral Support Consultation Services
Behavioral Support Consultation Services provide on-site support and training to parents, teachers, or administrators on actions to develop, improve, replace, or extinguish behaviors. The clinician directly supports the client with the goal of modeling skills for all those interacting with the client on a regular basis. On-site Social Skills Training is part of this service.
Intensive Family Training (The Super Nanny service)
Are you familiar with the show, Super Nanny? Following an intensive intake and evaluation process, our clinicians will work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan and work intensively with your family and children across 2-5 days to build skills and better manage problematic behavior.
This service is available to a limited number of families per year. Families receive 6 weeks of follow-up coaching as part of this service. Our Intensive Family Training Model looks different for each family based on diagnoses, acuity, participation, goals, and consistency with implementation. Intensive Family Training works with the individuals in the family unit as well as the unit as a whole. This service includes the development of a systematic behavior management plan to support all children living in the home.
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
O. A. Battista
OUR TESTIMONIALS
Our family worked with Heather and Sasha for an entire weekend for Intensive Family Training. We were blown away by how much we were able to LEARN in one weekend. We have adopted most of the strategies and tools we learned and have revealed the consistent improvements we have seen in the well-being of our children as well as our confidence as parents. My husband and I are finally on the same page!
The follow-up coaching has been incredibly helpful, the children loved both of these ladies and are always telling us when we don’t follow through, “We better call Ms. Heather and Ms. Sasha,” they were simply phenomenal! This service is perfect for busy families as we exchanged weeks of intervention or months of sitting on a waitlist with one weekend that packed a solid punch! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
K.D. Mom of one LD child, one ADHD child, & one perfectionistic worry wart!
“I worked in tandem with Elizabeth to provide educational support for a child with Down Syndrome. I have a Master’s Degree in Education, and a Master’s Degree in Library Sciences, and was an early elementary teacher for over twenty years. In all my years of teaching, I have never witnessed an early intervention specialist of the caliber of Elizabeth. She has an extraordinary gift of engaging her student/client by knowing the right balance of academic work with behavioral mentoring. Elizabeth knows exactly when to push her student and when to pull back. The result is that Elizabeth is able to achieve outstanding results in both the student’s behavior and educational goals. The reason for this positive outcome is that her students trust her. Elizabeth extends herself to her student with her whole heart and the student feels her sincere intention. She’s just the best at what she does.”
Cathy Robinson, MA, Education
“We were in a scary and desperate place as a family, immobilized by the behavior of our 10-year-old son. Heather was exactly who we needed! She provided a warm, but no-nonsense approach to behavioral intervention. She walks in, takes off her shoes, and gets right down to business. She has been such a support for us not only by improving our parenting skills but our daily interactions and appreciation for one another. I wish I would have known people like Heather were out there years ago.”
Mother of a spirited 10-year-old diagnosed with ADHD
“Ms. Torres is one of the most professional people I have ever met. My son was having a difficult time at his new school. He was not listening to directions, running out of the classroom, and breaking school property. Ms. Torres was able to provide the school with recommendations to best support him. My son has made huge strides and is now doing really well at his school. Without Ms. Torres’s support and knowledge this story wouldn’t have had a happy ending.”