More age-appropriate, preteen and teenage style counseling sessions that incorporate talk therapy within a variety of sports (football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, etc.) recreational activities (pool, air hockey, foosball, ping pong, etc.) and creative strategic mind games (checkers, chess, board games, card games, etc.

Once therapeutic rapport has been established through recreational play therapy activities, recreational play therapy techniques continue but in a much more psychoeducational method that delivers strategies to improve communication and engagement with family at home, healthier social interactions at school, appropriate focus with academics and athletics, and also protecting better awareness and connection with self through increased confidence and self esteem.

In concert with and without students on medication, provides supplemental mental health care for those who interact with non-accommodating environments to improve chances of not only functioning but exceptional production strategies like only a healthy ADHD brain can do once appropriately developed.

For every four (4) sessions conducted individually with each child/student, one parenting session is delivered and specially crafted for each unique family and its parent(s) for the purpose of continuing to build parental strengths, address longstanding parental challenge areas, and provide variety of ways to better connect with your child without betraying same child’s confidence by not explicitly relaying any report each child makes in individual sessions.

Before family sessions begin for those who desire improved communication and conflict resolution within their family fabric, both child/teenage client and parent(s) are primed and prepared for such engagement in family sessions beforehand in the aforementioned recreational play individual sessions and parenting skills sessions, setting the stage for the best chance of productive sessions with longer lasting family dynamic improvements.

For those who dread the traditional, stereotypical awkward family meeting experiences, most family sessions conducted have a dose of both the fun, guard-down nature of recreational play activities along with the psychoeducation of student skills-building and parenting skills sessions to be used at home subsequent of in-office family therapy sessions.

If siblings are falling short in seeing the potential and possibility of “built-in” friends within your own very family, family-style and group-therapy style recreational play techniques work just as effectively between siblings without the extra layer of parental involvement in session.