Expressive Healing
Welcome! I'm Adrienne, an play therapist dedicated to helping children, teens, and parents discover their inner strengths and achieve emotional well-being through creative expression.
Using a neurodiversity affirming lens, we will explore the transformative power of creativity together and unlock the potential within you.
My Ideal Client
Children
Who spend more time in the principal’s office than in the classroom.
Whose default form of communicating frustration is biting, pinching, or hitting.
Whose emotions live in the 0 or the 100 (i.e. super feelers or highly sensitive children).
Teens
Who tend to people please and struggle with setting boundaries.
Who feel misunderstood and are working to find their true identity.
Who are seeking calm as they juggle life’s stressors such as friends, family, and school.
Parents
Who feel drained from trying every parenting strategy in the book.
Who want to create a stronger family system built on love and connection.
Who need accountability to stay consistent with rules.
Who are just received a diagnosis of Autism for their child and aren’t sure where to start.
Neurodiverse Individuals
Who struggle to build meaningful connections with others.
Who feel shame or guilt about their neurodiversity.
Who experience explosive anger outbursts or struggle to manage their emotions.
“…trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.”
-Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Play Therapy
Play is a child’s language and the toys are the children’s words. Play helps children process and regulate feelings in a safe welcoming space.
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Teen or Young Adult Therapy
Movement, mindfulness, and art based techniques are woven through sessions to inspire and heal deeper wounds.
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Parent Coaching
There is no manual for how to parent your child. Parents will meet with counselor to practice different parent strategies to utilize at home.
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Family Therapy
We all come from a family unit in which each individual person affects the other. Lets come together to build stronger connections with one another.
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Group Therapy
Connect with other individuals experiencing similar life challenges, practice skills, and feel the support of your community.
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