Circle of Security is a relationship based program that works to develop and strengthen parent-child attachments. As a Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator I use this framework to help understand how you and your child come together and explore new ways of meeting that might better serve you.

Theraplay is a type of play therapy that includes caregivers and children together to affect growth and change. Theraplay uses four characteristics of a healthy parent-child relationship (e.g. structure, nurture, engagement and challenge) to help positively shape a child’s image of themselves, others and the world through intentional interaction between them. I am a Theraplay student using components from this approach as I complete my Level 1 training.

We are born into relationships with others, and all through life we are shaped by those around us—and we too, shape them. A child is apart of a caregiving unit, a family in whatever form that takes shape. For this reason I approach individual work with children and teens from a family perspective. This means I include parents and families in the counseling process to create a stronger system for everyone. I am Level 2 trained in Integrative Attachment Family Therapy and use other family systems approaches such as Filial Play Therapy, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Emotion Focused Family Therapy.