Telehealth Therapy

At Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, our specialists offer convenient, safe, and effective support from the comfort of your own home, making it easier for your child to engage without the added stress of travel or unfamiliar environments. Our teletherapy services create a nurturing space to enhance your child’s and family’s strengths, while providing practical solutions to improve quality of life and emotional regulation.

With teletherapy, we can directly problem-solve how tools and skills learned in therapy will work at home, ensuring your child receives high-quality care that fits seamlessly into your family’s routine.

For children under 5, we utilize coaching-based and play-based interventions such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). These sessions involve parents and children engaging together in play and in real-life routine settings, learning to navigate daily life while building emotional and behavioral regulation skills. The therapist supports positive interactions between the parent or caregiver and child, providing live coaching through headphones or Bluetooth technology. This approach helps parents not only learn new strategies but also apply them effectively at home.

For children ages 6 to 12, we incorporate engaging activities and educational tools through technology. With features like interactive whiteboards, videos, and hands-on activities, kids stay actively involved in sessions. Typically, children meet with the provider for 25 minutes before parents for the remaining 25 minutes join to learn the skills their kids have practiced and to discuss how to support them throughout the week.

For teens, video chat is already familiar and comfortable. This allows providers to help teens establish independent coping routines and tools using everyday items in their own home, promoting a smooth and effective integration of therapy into their lives.

Our telehealth therapy services include:

• Neuroaffirming Therapy: Our specialists are trained int he intricacies of neurodevelopmental differences that respect and affirm your child's autonomy and unique neurological make-up, especially for those with Autism, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and anxiety.
• Collaborative Family-Centered Care: We believe in empowering families, offering guidance and tools that work for parent and children alike.
• Innovative and Flexible Solutions:Our telehealth platform leverages the latest technology to deliver secure, personalized therapy that adapts to the needs of your child and family.
• Challenging Behavior Strategies: We provide targeted strategies for addressing challenging behaviors, helping parents and children learn how to manage big emotions effectively and constructively.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

At Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, we have certified Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) providers on staff, ready to support your family.

In PCIT, you will learn established child behavior strategies and practical, positive parenting solutions that are tailored to your unique child through live coaching in the skills from a compassionate and non-judgmental provider. This intervention is designed to empower you with tools that build long lasting change. Many parents say these skills help when they have tried everything and nothing works. PCIT skills are effective for 2- to 7-year-old children and at Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, we have developed techniques to support children up to age 12. This evidence-based approach has proven effective for young children facing behavioral issues, attention challenges, histories of trauma, and Autistic children.

Specifically, PCIT supports:

• Child emotion regulation development
• Child behavior regulation development
• Parent help for managing challenging behaviors
• Positive relationship development
• Solutions for aggressive behavior
  

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

At Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, all of our providers have strong backgrounds in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and are ready to support your family.

CBT is a well-researched approach to helping kids build emotional coping tools and strategies to help them grow in their calm and confidence at home, school, and with their friends. It is more than just talk therapy, it is an interactive way for kids to learn about their brains, their bodies, their feelings, and to learn tools to support their emotional and behavioral development. CBT helps children with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, low self-esteem, giftedness or twice-exceptional anxiety or emotion regulation challenges, and perfectionism.

Specifically, CBT supports:

• Calming strategies for kids
• Techniques to help with sleep
• Building child self-confidence
• Helping child outbursts
• Parenting help for supporting child emotions and behaviors

Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)

At Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, we have trained Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) providers on staff, ready to support your family.

SPACE is an effective child therapy approach for anxiety that includes only parents! This therapy guides parents in responding to their child's anxiety and emotional meltdowns in a way that leads to improvements in child distress by empowering parents with professional advice on how to handle difficult situations and set boundaries with a child's anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This intervention is uniquely designed to support improvements in your child's anxiety without them being directly involved so that children whose anxiety prevents them from participating in therapy can still experience improvements in worry and return to things they enjoy like their activities, schools, and playdates.

Specifically, SPACE supports:

• Children refusing to do things because of anxiety
• Parent frustration with anxious children
• Parenting help for managing child anxiety
• Family-centered therapy for anxious kids

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

In Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), you and your child will learn essential skills to cope with and overcome frightening memories associated with trauma or distressing life events. Common symptoms following a trauma can include nightmares, feeling on edge, irritability, trouble concentrating, excessive worry, feeling disconnected, avoiding places or people that remind you of the event, and feelings of hopelessness. TF-CBT equips children with skills to manage the emotional impact of trauma and guides them in discussing their experiences, which helps reduce anxiety related to these memories.

At Growing Together Child and Family Therapy, our clinicians offer TF-CBT for various types of trauma, including sexual trauma, medical trauma (and sibling exposure to medical trauma), as well as trauma related to abuse, adoption, or out-of-home placement. We have certified TF-CBT providers on staff, ready to support your family on this journey toward healing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

In ACT, you and your child will learn mindfulness-based strategies to acknowledge upsetting emotional experiences to improve coping and anxiety. ACT can be a particularly helpful approach for children experiencing stress.

Parent Management Training (PMT)

In PMT, parents learn strategies for managing problematic behaviors in children including not listening, difficulties doing chores, and problematic school behaviors.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

In ERP, children, adolescents, and parents learn ways to manage OCD by engaging in exposures to content that triggers anxiety while avoiding compulsions. This type of intervention challenges the way the brain responds to anxiety triggers to create change.