Child and Teen Solutions

Welcome! Child and Teen Solutions is a team of providers dedicated to providing state-of-the-art evaluations and treatment.

Evaluations: ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, and behavior challenges.

Treatment: Individual therapy, family therapy, and parenting services.

We serve children as young as preschoolers. We also offer treatment for young adults.

Our treatment services cover a range of common challenges, including anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, the autism spectrum, school problems, and behavior challenges. At Child and Teen Solutions, we strive for excellence in mental health services by utilizing the creative delivery of evidence-based practices. 

We believe in the power of parents to support their child or teen’s mental health.

Parents are worried about their kids. By the time a parent realizes that their child or teen needs help, the problems have usually been brewing for some time. A parent may realize that it’s time to seek professional help, only to realize that all the therapists are “full.” We hear time and again from parents that their calls to therapists are met with complete silence or else a referral to other providers who also turn out to have full practices. Many parents end up feeling despair and desperation, at a loss as to how to help their kid.

We have good news.

When supported and guided by a skilled therapist, parents are usually in a much better position to help their child than they realize. Rather than feeling helpless after hitting walls in their pursuit of a therapist for their child, parents can consider learning skills that will better equip them with how to better intervene in their child or teen’s struggles.

1) Parents are the most powerful influencers of their children.

This is NOT to say that parents are at fault when their children struggle. Kids who are grappling with mental health or behavior issues have complex needs. Nobody would expect parents to know on their own how to respond to extreme tantrums, self-harm, alarming expressions of despair, anxiety, or depression in a child or teen. Even the most tuned in parents can benefit from learning advanced skills around discipline, emotions, communication, boundaries, and navigating conflict.

2) Parents are their child’s most important relationship.

Children come into this world with all kinds of strengths and vulnerabilities. We celebrate the unique qualities that make our children who they are, while also recognizing that some characteristics require extra support. Some children are wired to be anxiety sensitive. Some have developmental or neurodevelopmental issues. Some might be genetically prone to mood disorders or OCD. Some are highly active or impulsive. Regardless of your child’s vulnerabilities, a strong parent-child relationship can help to mitigate a potentially risky developmental trajectory.

For many families, a child’s challenges can take over family life. The family tries to survive by orbiting around the child’s needs. Parents often neglect their own needs out of being in constant survival mode. Over time, this persistent stress can undermine family relationships - the foundation that must be prioritized in order for anyone to thrive.

3) Most of the evidence-based strategies for child problems, including acting-out behavior and anxiety, are parent-focused.

This is especially good news, because many distressed children and teens refuse care. Or, they might accept care, but are not developmentally ready to make good use of the support. Parents can learn evidence-based strategies to help their child get unstuck from painful cycles of anxiety and avoidance. Parents can learn how to disentangle themselves from conflict escalations. Parents can also learn how to build their child’s emotion regulation, and how to respond to anger outbursts or rebellious behavior. All of this is possible without the child or teen being seen on a regular basis.

We encourage you to consider parent consultation over feeling helpless while you wait for months and months on waitlists for your child or teen to be seen.

One reason why most child and teen specialists are full is because there are not enough after-school appointment slots to go around. Kids are typically not home from school before 3:30. High schoolers in this area get out even later, and often do not free up until after extracurricular commitments. Unless they work well into the evening, a single provider can serve only a few kids.  However, these same providers can often accommodate parent meetings during the school day hours. Even when a child or teen would truly benefit from working with a therapist, there are good reasons to seek parent consultation.

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