- Assessments of children, adolescents, families
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families
- Collaboration with family, schools and other professionals
- Workshops and Extension Programs: Current and emerging clinical and theoretical perspectives for professionals
- Consultation for children’s mental health community agencies
Some of the most common concerns parents and teachers have are difficulties manifested as:
- Excessive anxieties such as separation anxiety, some phobias, chronic worrying
- Behavioural difficulties (aggression, defiance, delinquent behaviour)
- Eating disorders
- Learning difficulties
- Somatic complaints (headaches or stomach aches not caused by illness)
- Irritability and/or sadness with diminished interest or pleasure in daily life
- Inhibitions that interfere with socialization and/or learning
- Unhappiness with gender and gender role
- Highly conflictual relationships with parents/siblings
- Fears of growing older and resistance to taking on the demands of the next developmental phase, including clinging to earlier patterns of behaviour in a regressive manner
- Poor socialization with peer group
- Unwillingness to accept criticism and/or excessive oversensitivity to injuries to self-esteem with reactions such as defeatism or resistance to learning.
- Attachment difficulties
- Adoption issues
- Grief, Loss, Mourning
- Trauma including physical, sexual& internet abuse
- Working with immigrants and newcomers
- Working with victims of of sex trafficking