Offices in: doylestown, pa & King of prussia
Anxiety and Adolescents
How We Treat Anxiety
Our Anxiety program does not involve once a week therapy. Our program is customized to every child and family. It can consist of one or more of the following :
Therapy Sessions: One or more per week. The therapist has to be available for calls/text in between sessions when the family is in crisis with the ODD teen.
A Teen Mentor: Assigned to your child for times when they need to just talk it out and be heard. This is not a therapist, but yet someone they can relate to.
An Executive Functioning Coach: To help with their student portal, organizing a weekly calendar for assignments and constant follow up with the coach to review if the work has been complete. This takes parents out of the power struggle of fighting with their child about school work.
Psychiatrist/Medication: We have partnered with a team of psychiatric providers to help us with our teen clients. They love working with teens and teens feel they can be open and connect with our psychiatric partners.
Family Therapy: This is essential for the therapy with the oppositional client to be effective. This will be another therapist in our practice.
Parent Support Therapist: This will be another therapist in our practice who has knowledge and experience with ODD.
Sibling Therapy: If the siblings are being affected by the oppositional teen. ODD can be traumatizing for siblings.
The Village: Types of Treatment for your Child with Anxiety :
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of therapy where clients learn skills to deal with emotional regulation, triggers as they come up, and stress tolerance. Often ODD kids are not able to manage any of these things and what ensues when they have a feeling or are triggered is mayhem for all involved.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the individual therapy sessions a combination of psychodynamic therapy along with DBT will be utilized. The therapy will focus on helping our ODD clients understand how this all began, what they were feeling before the ODD symptoms began, and how this evolved. We will also explore the shame that can come with ODD behavior that comes from parents trying to help and discipline their child for the oppositional behavior.
Psychiatric Consult will be able to be quickly scheduled if a client has nota already had a psychiatric consult. Eileen Pierce, our Psychiatric NP, has a great deal of experience with ODD. She will attempt to diagnose the root cause of the oppositional behavior and begin to treat it.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma based rapid eye movement therapy. If we find our ODD teen has trauma that could be helped with EMDR we have a referral partner who is also in Doylestown who has two practitioners who are highly skilled in EMDR and have done great work with our clients and with consent from the client are able to collaborate with us as a team in the treatment.
Educational Therapy can be beneficial if your child is struggling with academics. We partner with an Executive Functioning Coach who will not only help them with their schoolwork but calm them down each session and help them settle their emotions from earlier in the day.
Psychological/Education Testing and Assessment may be needed. If needed we will refer to you a practice we partner with to determine the exact cause of the educational challenges of your child. If your child has a questionable psychological diagnosis this practice can do the testing to pinpoint the exact diagnosis.
IOP/PHP/Inpatient Counseling would be recommended if at any point in the treatment, we feel a higher level of care may be needed because your child is not safe for whatever reason. We have a consultant who can talk with you as parents to find the best fit for your child and assist you in finding out what programs are covered by your insurance.
Adolescent Inpatient Advocate may be utilized if, as a last resort, your child has to go inpatient. We have an advocate who can advocate for your child and act as liaison with your family and the facility so your child is not dropped off and left alone at a facility.