Child Psychologists and Child Therapists in Placerville, CA.

Young children use play for therapy. We have specialists who help children express their emotions and learn coping skills through play therapy, art therapy, and sand tray therapy. If you have a concern about your child’s mental health or behavior. Getting a professional’s opinion on what to do is recommended. However, common things that bring children to counseling include: Anxiety Extreme separation anxiety Depression or extreme and persistent sadness Trauma and/or PTSD Grief and loss ADHD Conduct concerns, aggression, and poor emotional regulation Nightmares and bedwetting School refusal Social anxiety or becoming socially withdrawn Life transitions such as divorce, parental separation, moving, etc.

After 11 years of working with children, I find it more effective to work with you, the parent. This is not because you are responsible for the way your child is behaving or what your child is going through, but because you have the most positive power and influence in your child's life. If I can use what I know through education and experience to empower you the parent to connect to your child, it will be more impactful and long lasting than if I spend therapy sessions with them. Your child will also find healing through their relationship with you, increasing trust, and strengthening your relationship for the present and future. You will have your Parenting Power back, stronger than ever!

Did your young child experience a traumatic event? Are they struggling with behavior issues? Are you at a loss of what to do? I have more than 18 years of experience working with young children with special needs, emotional problems, behavioral problems and ones who have experience trauma or loss. I can help. I work WITH the parent or caregiver to help the child be the best they can be. I also support parents at IEPs, 504 Plans, and team meetings. I can advocate for you and your child's needs. Call now for a consultation.

Many times, child therapists overdo the family system in their quest to seek effective solutions for emotional, learning or behavioral concerns with young children. And many times doctors overpathologize issues that shouldn’t be medicated necessarily. This leaves parents wondering what is the best route for their child? Introducing brainwave optimization technology. A fast, effective, natural, and less expensive way to allow your child's brain to make the optimizing changes it desires to make---on its own! Without any external force, opinion, medication, diagnostic, etc. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

“I love working with children and adolescents. My inner child comes out and I meet them where they are at. My background in dance, love for art, work with horses/animals and my athletic side really help me relate with them.” Therapy includes: play therapy, art therapy, movement therapy, behavioral therapy, guided imagery and Eye Movement Desensitization (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Heart Centered Therapy (HCT), attachment focused therapy and Brain Spotting (BSP).

Child and adolescent counseling can play a very important role in the life of a child who is dealing with one or more of the wide area of childhood challenges and traumas. Children can become the unintended victims of parents who had little training to become parents, had little time to be parents or experienced separation, abandonment, divorce , a change in parenting, step-parenting, foster parenting as well were challenged by dysfunctional homes with addictions, emotional disturbances and instabilities, extreme fighting, arguing, violence and abuse, frequent moving, and being passed from one divorced parent to another or from family member to family memeber. All these and many additional growing up challenges and traumas can be potent and disturbing...(view profile to read more)

Decades of research has taught us that the world of the child is one of exploration and play. A child lacks the ability to verbalize their feelings, but, if given the opportunity, can “play out” those feelings in a safe environment. Therefore, we believe that a child’s primary language for expressing their feelings is through their play. In our therapy sessions we strive to meet the child at his/her level and invite them to play freely in our playroom under the watchful eye of our trained play therapist. Through the vehicle of play we help the child to express their confusing and often overwhelming feelings, help them to change negative behavior, and learn more adaptive behaviors.