Clinical Services
Specialized care for infants, young children, caregivers, and the professionals who support them.
The earliest relationships in a child’s life shape development in profound ways. When those relationships are disrupted by trauma, loss, medical experiences, stress, or other adversity, both children and caregivers benefit from thoughtful, relationship-centered intervention that recognizes the strengths each family brings while supporting healing and resilience.
I maintain a limited clinical practice because direct work with families remains central to who I am as a clinician. Sitting with parents and young children reminds me every day that meaningful change rarely comes from having the “right answer.” It comes from slowing down, listening carefully, thinking together, and helping families discover new ways of understanding themselves and one another.
Those experiences continue to inform every aspect of my teaching, consultation, leadership, and implementation work.
Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
As a Senior National Trainer in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), I have spent much of my career helping clinicians, supervisors, and organizations implement this evidence-supported, relationship-based model with fidelity. At the same time, I continue to provide CPP clinically with a small number of families.
CPP helps young children and their caregivers understand the impact of difficult experiences while strengthening the relationship that supports healing, resilience, and healthy development. Together, we create opportunities for children and caregivers to make sense of what has happened, strengthen feelings of safety and connection, and build new experiences that support growth.
Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (PCPP)
The transition to parenthood is one of the most significant developmental periods in adult life. Pregnancy, birth, infertility, pregnancy loss, traumatic birth experiences, NICU stays, and early parenting can all influence the developing relationship between caregiver and infant.
Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (PCPP) offers an opportunity to support families during this critical period by strengthening attachment, increasing reflective capacity, addressing trauma when present, and fostering healthy early relationships from the very beginning.
Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health
Infants and young children communicate through behavior, play, relationships, and their developing capacity to regulate emotions. My work considers the whole child within the context of their caregiving relationships, developmental history, family culture, strengths, and life experiences.
Clinical services are individualized and developmentally informed, recognizing that each family brings unique experiences, resources, and hopes for their child.
Areas of Clinical Focus
Clinical services may address:
· Trauma and traumatic stress
· Medical trauma and hospitalization
· Attachment and relationship concerns
· Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood
· Anxiety, fear, and emotional regulation
· Developmental concerns
· Grief and loss
· Foster care, adoption, and kinship care
· Child welfare involvement
· Parenting after adversity
· Strengthening parent-child relationships
Professional Case Consultation
Some of the most meaningful clinical learning happens when professionals have opportunities to think together.
I provide consultation to licensed mental health clinicians working with infants, young children, caregivers, and families. Consultation offers a reflective space to explore clinical decision-making, case conceptualization, implementation challenges, therapeutic process, and the emotional impact of the work itself.
The goal is not simply to solve problems, but to deepen understanding, strengthen clinical judgment, expand critical thinking, and support thoughtful, relationship-centered practice.
Family Consultation
Family Consultation
Families occasionally seek consultation rather than ongoing psychotherapy. Consultation may be helpful when parents are looking for guidance regarding a young child’s development, relationships, behavior, trauma, or recommendations for next steps.
These consultations provide an opportunity to think together, clarify concerns, and identify developmentally informed approaches that support both the child and the caregiving relationship.
My Clinical Approach
My work is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and respect for the knowledge every family already possesses.
Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or behaviors, I seek to understand the experiences that have shaped each child’s development and each caregiver’s story. Together, we make meaning of those experiences while building on the strengths, relationships, and resilience that already exist within the family.
Healing happens within relationships. My role is to help create the conditions in which those relationships can grow stronger.
Scheduling a Consultation
Because I maintain a limited clinical practice while working extensively in training, consultation, and implementation, I accept a small number of new families each year.
If you are interested in learning more, I welcome you to reach out. Together we can determine whether my services are a good fit for your family’s needs or whether another resource may be more appropriate.