If your child or teen is currently experiencing...

✧ Big Emotional Swings & Meltdowns: Difficulty regulating anger, sudden tearfulness, or intense emotional outbursts that seem hard to calm.

✧School & Social Anxiety: Constant worrying, perfectionism, performance pressure, or avoidance of school, friends, and social settings.

✧ Physical Symptoms of Distress: Frequent stomachaches, headaches, muscle tension, or trouble sleeping when feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

✧ Intrusive Thoughts & Compulsive Behaviors: Getting stuck in repetitive worries, "what-if" loops, or rigid rituals to feel safe.

✧ Unprocessed Trauma or Big Life Changes: Struggling after a difficult event, loss, family transition, or ongoing relational stress.

✧ Feeling Stuck in Talk Therapy: Difficulty verbalizing complex feelings or feeling overwhelmed by traditional sit down therapy.

Then imagine moving toward...

✧ Emotional Regulation & Resilience: Learning practical, age-appropriate tools to self soothe and navigate big feelings with confidence.

✧ Ease in Daily Life & School: Unhooking from worries, letting go of perfectionism, and engaging comfortably in academic and social life.

✧ Somatic & Physical Calm: Feeling relaxed and grounded in their body, reducing nervous system overload and physical tension.

✧ Flexibility & Inner Peace: Breaking free from anxiety cycles, OCD compulsions, or fear based patterns without fighting their emotions.

✧ Deep Processing & Healing: Gently resolving past traumas and stressful memories so they no longer disrupt daily life.

✧ Engaging, Creative Therapy: Experiencing therapy through movement, play, and interactive modalities that meet them where they are.

Child & Teen Therapy in Northern and Southern California | EMDR, ERP & Somatic Therapy

Therapy Could Look Like

• Engaging Play & Expressive Interventions: Using creative expression, games, and play based tools to help children and teens explore emotions without needing to force verbal explanation.

• Gentle Somatic Regulation: Helping young clients notice where distress lives in their physical body (tight chest, nervous tummy) and teaching movement based grounding techniques to restore physical safety.

• Adaptive EMDR & EMDR 2.0: Utilizing child and teen friendly stimulation (tactile buzzers, rhythmic drawing, audio tones, or movement) to reprocess scary memories and quiet internal alarm systems quickly.

• Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD & Anxiety: Step-by-step, supportive guidance to help youth gradually face fears, unhook from intrusive thoughts, and step out of compulsive cycles.

• Practical Tool-Building & Skill Integration: Blending modern talk therapy with actionable coping tools so children and teens leave sessions feeling empowered, capable, and understood.