TALKING KIDS AND TWEENS BECOME TALKING TEENS
Real communication with kids and tweens builds trust
Ensuring the mental health and overall well-being of a child while navigating their ups and downs as a parent can be daunting. Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy and counseling services to address a child's mental health challenges and helps parents overcome obstacles in their child's lives impeding progress.
Psychotherapy and Counseling Services for Kids and Tweens
Areas of Specialization for Kids and Tweens
Psychotherapy and Counseling Services
Dr. Jenny's counseling approach is interactive and collaborative, with an emphasis on building on strengths and skills that can translate into everyday life.
She uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a type of psychotherapy that is often used to treat anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems. In cognitive-behavioral therapy, she takes a collaborative approach with clients to identify patterns in thoughts and behaviors that lead to distress. She and her clients work together to challenge those patterns, such as negative thoughts about oneself or the world.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental illnesses. They are both related to an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy as a treatment, using cognitive behavioral therapy and other forms of therapy. Her treatment aims to change negative patterns of thinking or behaviors by teaching new ways of thinking or doing things.
Communication Skills
Communication skills are vital for success in life. Communication skills help individuals to understand what makes people tick; empathize; and motivate them.
Dr. Jenny works with clients to improve their communication skills using a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and other therapeutic modalities. Learnings and insights are applied and tested in the time between sessions, allowing clients the opportunity to apply their new communication skills to real-world situations.
Diabetes Mental Health
Diabetes often leads to mental health challenges for many people. Having diabetes can be stressful in itself, but it can also affect your mental health. The condition is known to cause or worsen depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Dr. Jenny, a Type 1 diabetic, has extensive experience working with diabetics in a psychotherapeutic as well as a clinical setting. She works with a range of diabetic clients, from those newly diagnosed and striving to understand and adapt to their illness to clients dealing with aspects of life such as dating and relationships while diabetic. Her clients become more adept at managing their diabetes as well as addressing the mental health challenges that often arise from being diabetic.
Chronic Illness Mental Health
For many people, chronic illness can lead to mental health challenges. It creates a sense of fatigue and hopelessness that can make it difficult for people to maintain their physical and emotional health.
Dr. Jenny works with clients to provide treatment and support for individuals with chronic illness and mental health challenges. She relies on a variety of therapeutic modalities, including coping strategies to deal with chronic illness often involve cognitive behavioral therapy.
Trauma and Grief
Trauma is often a psychological effect of a terrifying event that is often followed by intense fear, helplessness or horror. For someone who has experienced trauma, psychotherapy and counseling provide a path to recover.
Dr. Jenny works with individuals with trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a mental health issue that can develop after someone has experienced or witnessed a life-threatening event.
In addition, Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy and counseling to support individuals and families through the process of grieving with clinical support and guidance to help manage feelings and emotions. Grief is typically associated with the death of a family member or loved one. Although this is the most prevalent form of grief, it can happen in other instances, such as losing a job or failing at something important to you.
Dr. Jenny understands
today's kids and tweens
It can be a challenge to find a therapist with the clinical training, skills, experience, AND the ability to connect and understand kids and tweens.
Dr. Jenny is unique in her field, a licensed clinical psychologist with years of experience who can connect with, understand, and help improve the mental health of kids to grow into healthy tweens, and tweens to grow into healthy teens. She has helped numerous kids and tweens, as well as their parents, navigate today's challenges such as social media shaming, online and school bullying, managing video game and mobile device usage, maintaining mental wellness at school or in sports, establishing and maintaining friendships, understanding separation and divorce, reducing anxiety or depression, coping with mental health in conjunction with type-1 diabetes or other chronic illnesses, and other challenges.
Give yourself the care you need to achieve optimal mental health
In-person psychotherapy and counseling services offered in Laguna Beach or Newport Beach
Remote video-based services provided to any state supporting licensed clinical psychologists from the State of California
Individual, family, couples, and group sessions available in time slots ranging from 15 minute to 2+ hours
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