Parent-Child Psychotherapy
 

Parent- Child Psychotherapy  is a therapeutic intervention designed for parents with children ages 0-5 who have experienced trauma. Trauma may include abuse or neglect, the sudden or traumatic death of someone close, a serious accident, sexual abuse, or exposure to domestic violence. In child-parent psychotherapy, all sessions include both the child and a parent. 

 

As the therapist my goal is to increase secure attachment between parent and child. Treatment concentrates on in-session, parent-child interactions to support and foster healthy coping, emotional regulation, and increased back-and-forth between parent and child. Targets of the intervention include caregivers' and children' maladaptive representations of themselves and each other and interactions and behaviors that interfere with the child's mental health. Over the course of treatment, caregiver and child are guided to create a joint narrative of the psychological traumatic event and identify and address traumatic triggers that generate dysregulated behaviors and affect.

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