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Therapy for Children
Therapy for children requires a unique approach to help them communicate and process difficult feelings and memories. Our compassionate child therapists provide care for young children (under 12 years) in Edmonton and Sherwood Park.
What is Child Therapy?
What is a Child Therapist?
A child therapist treats children with behavioural, emotional, or mental disorders. Children see the world differently than adults and need a specialized approach.
Child therapy includes therapy approaches that are specifically tailored for children under the age of 12 to effectively empower them to articulate their thoughts and feelings in a positive and nurturing environment.
Play Therapy
A counselling approach that uses different kinds of play therapy techniques to help children express thoughts and feelings. It is a specialized approach made for young children. Play therapy may appear as normal play time to an outside perspective, but to a trained therapist, it offers invaluable insights into the thoughts and feelings of young children who can not properly articulate what they are going through.
EMDR for Children
EMDR is a relatively modern technique that has gained increased popularity in treating PTSD (Post traumatic Stress Disorder), anxiety, eating disorders and more. A trained therapist who works with children can effectively apply EMDR techniques on children who have previously experienced a traumatic event.
Therapists trained to treat children can help with a variety of problems.
Help with Problems Like:
Family Problems
School Problems
Social Anxiety
Medical Diagnoses
Bullying
Learning Difficulty
Phobias
Culture Shock
Help With Feelings Like:
Sadness
Anger
Stress
Anxiety
Shame
Grief
Loneliness
Low Self-Esteem
Help With Conditions Like:
ADHD
Depression
Anxiety
OCD
Eating Disorders
Self-Harm
Behavioral Disorders
PTSD
How Can a Therapist Help?
OCD in Children
Children with OCD show signs of obsession, which are fears that the child can't stop thinking about, and compulsions, which are rituals that your child may do to control their fears and prevent bad things from happening.
Parents may notice that the child:
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Has trouble concentrating.
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Gets irritated or anxious when things are not perfect.
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Washes their hands frequently.
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Get upset about asymmetry.
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Needs parent to say or do exactly as they say.
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Spends too much time getting dressed, do homework, and other daily tasks.
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Is feeling or acting sad, anxious, irritable or tense.
Children who have experienced a trauma can often find it difficult to verbalize their thoughts and feelings about the traumatic event. Our therapists offer a specialized approach to help children process what had happened and learn how to cope.
Trauma in Children
Our Child Therapists in Edmonton & Sherwood Park
Nicole Pertich
Registered Psychologist, EMDR Trained
Nicole specializes in working with children and youth, ages 3-16 years old. Nicole has been helping children and youth overcome their difficulties and live full lives for over 15 years.
Accepting New Clients
Sherwood Park
Nicole's Fee: $200/hour
Nadja Hansen
Registered Provisional Psychologist, EMDR Trained
Works with young children under 8 years old, as well as older children 9+. She uses play therapy techniques to help children cope with childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD, bullying, family issues, autism and more.
Accepting New Clients
Sherwood Park
Nadja's Fee: $180/hour
Chantal Rose
Registered Provisional Psychologist, EMDR Trained
Works with young children under 8 years old, and older children 9+.
Accepting New Clients
Edmonton
Chantal's Fee: $160/hour