HeartWork for Families
Counseling
Parent Coaching
Attachment & Trauma
Infant & Early Childhood
Clinical Social Work Supervision
251-269-0727
Assessments
Family Therapy
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) assessment is a trauma-informed, developmentally focused process that helps us better understand how a child’s early experiences, relationships, and stress may have influenced their current functioning. By combining developmental history with information about a child’s strengths and needs, the NMT process creates a functional brain map that helps guide individualized recommendations for regulation, relationships, learning, and therapeutic support. NMT is not a diagnosis or a specific therapy; rather, it is a framework for understanding the child and selecting developmentally appropriate interventions.
Family Therapy
Not accepting new clients at this time.
A healing centered approach is used to facilitate attachment between parents and children. Using Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Trust-Based Relational Intervention, and somatic interventions, children and parents are guided to attune to each other. The goal of therapy is better relationships between family members with enhanced attachment security, self-esteem, trust in others, and joyful engagement. The therapy helps create positive, hopeful outlooks for parents and children, leads to the capacity for self-regulation, and builds a foundation for social skills. We strive to help parents to understand the roots of their children's behavior, and for children to make sense of their current day to day feelings, thoughts and behaviors as well as the things that have happened in the past. A healthy, secure parent-child relationship will strengthen lifelong mental health.
Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-up is a therapy model for very young children, ages 6 months to 24 months and their caregiver. This therapy is especially helpful for children and/or parents who have had adverse experiences.
