Therapy

We help families with:

  • ADD/ADHD, executive functioning and learning challenges
  • Anxiety, including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), separation anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and phobias
  • Attachment issues & adoption challenges
  • Behavior problems, including oppositional, defiant, and explosive, problems with motivation and difficult home or school behaviors
  • Developmental disorders, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
  • Family issues, including family discord, marital problems, separation and divorce
  • Grief and bereavement, family transitions, difficult adjustments with new siblings
  • Mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, severe emotional disregulation
  • Parenting issues, communication, discipline, and strengthening relationships
  • Self-harming behaviors, cutting, suicidal ideation
  • Social difficulties, bullying, play skills, social skills
  • Step-parenting, blending and transitioning families
  • Couples, relationship difficulties

All children, adolescents and families may face unique challenges. We can assist families by:

  • Strengthening family relationships
  • Helping children and adolescents understand their feelings - so they may better regulate their behaviors
  • Providing thoughtful, evidence- based, and outcome-based treatments
  • Providing guidance and support with parenting challenges

Our therapists are trained to use a variety of well-researched and well-regarded treatment techniques including:

  • CBT (Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy)
  • Development of behavior modification systems, for both home (parents) and schools (teachers)
  • Child-centered play therapy
  • Filial therapy (teaching parents therapeutic methods of relating and setting limits)
  • Expressive therapies such as sandtray and art
  • Brief solution-focused family therapy (BSFT)
  • Relationship Enhancement (RE) therapy for couples and families

Weaver and Associates specialize in working with young children (2-6).

The primary language of young children is play. In play therapy, children can explore their thoughts and emotions in a safe environment; build competence and self-esteem; learn to accept limits and control powerful feelings. With young children, parent collaboration is crucial to help reinforce therapeutic gains. Parents, as well as caregivers, grandparents, and other important adults, can choose to be an active partner in therapy through developing filial therapy skills. Providing therapy for young children can help them develop:

  • Positive ways to express their feelings
  • Self-understanding
  • Self-regulation and emotional intelligence
  • Impulse control
  • Play skills and social intelligence
  • Confidence when separating from parents

Weaver and Associates specialize in working with developing school-aged children (6-12).

Children's emotional needs can hinder their relationships, as well as success in school and other activities. School-aged children can often benefit from a flexible mix of play therapy, talk therapy, problem-solving, and CBT skills. Therapy helps develop a childs sense of competence and self-esteem, particularly to children struggling with anxiety. We believe in strong communication and collaboration with parents, sometimes also along with teachers or other important adults. We help develop:

  • Coping skills for anxiety and worries
  • Regulation of strong negative emotions, and improved impulse control
  • More cooperative behaviors at home and school
  • Social, emotional, and critical thinking skills for children with ADD/ADHD or learning difficulties
  • Social skills

Weaver and Associates specialize in the unique needs of adolescents.

Adolescence should be a time for growth and positive identity development. Our therapists understand the contemporary challenges and particular needs facing the modern developing adolescent. We also appreciate the special circumstances in which our community's teens need to navigate a high-pressure, high-expectation environment. We help adolescents develop the ability to balance burgeoning independence with increased responsibility over themselves and their choices. We provide a place for adolescents to feel heard and understood, discover more about their own values and beliefs, and develop thoughtfulness and problem-solving skills. Change comes through respectfully collaborating with the adolescent to develop skills in:

  • Managing anxiety and external pressures
  • Recognizing and managing their own (sometimes intense) feelings
  • Identifying and decreasing risk-taking behaviors
  • Learning Cognitive and Behavioral strategies for feelings of depression and anxiety
  • Improved communication with parents and other important adults
  • Improved motivation
  • Navigating social challenges

Weaver and Associates specialize in supporting families

Families go through transitions throughout life that sometimes benefit from an outside resource to support the family in adjusting and learning to thrive in new circumstances. We believe all families have strengths and can learn new ways to communicate with one another, and cope with problems. Every member of a family benefits from feeling understood, supported, and connected to one other. Families can learn new ways to:

  • Use play as a way to communicate and strengthen their relationships with their (younger) children.
  • Communicate more effectively and respectfully with one another
  • Change long-standing patterns and roles that can be hurtful or ineffective
  • Discover comfortable ways to truly empathize with one another
  • Problem-solve with one another over disagreements
  • Increase understanding and respect

Weaver and Associates provides ideas and support for parents

Parenting children and adolescents can be challenging! Our therapists can provide parents with understanding and insight into their children's unique needs. We also provide parents with practical and effective techniques and strategies to help children change problem behaviors. Kids exhibit problem behaviors due to temperament, low frustration tolerance, poor coping strategies, difficulty with their environment, and deficits in skills such as flexibility, impulse control, and modulating feelings. Together, our therapists work with parents to develop a clear plan of action that provides their children with love, discipline and support. We provide:

  • Strategies to parent spirited kids with both empathy and clear limits
  • Strategies to support children and adolescents who are sensitive, anxious, or emotionally vulnerable/volatile
  • Techniques to avoid power struggles and the desire for negative attention
  • Education on collaborative problem-solving techniques - parents recognizing temperamental challenges, and teaching their children new skills in flexibility, communication, managing emotions, and dealing with frustration
  • Behavioral modification techniques that really work, and are not punitive
  • Creating routines and structure that decrease problems in the household
  • Techniques in empathic and effective communication