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Erika Strasburg, B.A., Certified Adolescent Mental Health Coach, Certified DBT Skills Coach,Certified EFT Coach , Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
ADOLESCENTS, YOUNG ADULTS, ADULTS, PARENTS, FAMILIES AND COUPLES
SPECIALTIES:
Anxiety, ADHD, Family Conflict, Disorder Eating
Tools I use to work with clients:
EFT & DBT
Erika works with teens/adolescents who are struggling with ADHD, Anxiety, Self Esteem Issues, Body Dysmophia or Disordered Eating. Erika has a way of making teens feel right at home in her shame-free therapy room, so they can open up and share what they are truly feeling. She has a youthful energy, allowing teens to connect with her quickly. Erika works with her clients using DBT skills, CBT skills, and mindfulness. She honors each of her client's individual processes and circumstances, and believes small steps can lead to big changes.
Erika helps her clients improve their relationship to food, movement, stress, sleep, social media, and social circles. All of these areas greatly impact mental health, especially for teenagers. By establishing a safe and supportive space, Erika helps her clients develop a deeper understanding of the habits and choices that will improve their energy, balance and quality of life. She guides her clients to find their own empowered voice, and to feel calm and strong in mind and body.
Erika has worked for one of the top college prepatory programs in the country, helping her teen clients navigate the stressful process of getting into college. She works with teens (and adults) in show business, who have absorbed the unrealistic expectations of the entertainment industry. She helps these clients discover that their value is in who they are, not what they do.
Her clients would describe her as relatable, encouraging, compassionate, and safe. And their parents credit her for having a life changing impact on their children, as they navigate the difficulties of being a modern day teenager.
Maryluz Robinson, Art Therapy Practitioner, Master Reiki Practitioner, IARP Member
CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, YOUNG ADULTS, ADULTS, PARENT/CHILD SESSIONS
SPECIALTIES:
Maryluz clients experience discontent in their daily lives, periods of or consistent sadness, loneliness/isolation, rejection, abandonment, feeling shut down, immobilized, finding themselves angry all the time
Maryluz Robinson is an Artist in Bucks County and has an art studio in Chalfont, PA. MaryLuz' Artwork has been featured in art exhibits throughout Bucks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. Maryluz is a Certified Therapeutic Coach and an Art therapist. In Art Therapy, she works with children and adolescent clients to help them become closer to their emotional selves and put feelings on paper, for some children and teens, putting things on paper instead of speaking about feelings is easier and more efficient in working through things.
In her therapeutic coaching practice, Maryluz works with individuals of all ages to explore the issues causing discontentment in their daily lives. Maryluz and her clients explore ways to enhance their well-being by creating conscious choices to make a change. Settling into a weekly session time with Maryluz to begin working on the issues creating suffering for the client can be life-changing.
In Art Therapy, when children or teens are anxious to begin the process, she often asks them to bring their music for their session. The Art Studio, Cherry Blossoms, is rustic and cozy and a place where clients can begin to create on paper what is in their hearts and souls and, then learn a language to express their feelings verbally. Maryluz also gives the kids the choice of bringing their dog into sessions to help them relax. For her Art Therapy clients, Maryluz often works with the client in addition to a therapist and other team members. She is a team player and very passionate about understanding her clients through their art expression.
You will find Maryluz's works of Art on theartlls throughout our building.
Anita Puran, PhD
ADOLESCENTS, YOUNG ADULTS/COLLEGE STUDENTS, ADULTS
SPECIALTIES:
Anxiety, Depression, Mood Instability, Adults experiencing Divorce, Children of Divorce, Relationships Issues, Marital Issues, Narcissistic/Destructive Relationships
Hello, I'm Anita I work with women in various stage of transition in their lives. I work with women who are thinking about divorce, going through a divorce, or on the other side of divorce and trying to build a new identity.. I support women whose husbands have had an affair and who are experiencing betrayal trauma. I also work with women who have experienced narcissistic abuse in their relationship.
I empower women to notice patterns and beliefs about themselves that influence their decisions and behavior in their primary relationships. By looking back at their family history to identify any patterns they are repeating in their romantic relationships. I support women to make conscious and thoughtful decisions in their choice of partners and to gain entitlement and power in their relationships.
As nurturers and mothers, women tend to extend this mothering instinct into other areas of their lives, whether with their significant other or their work environment. Learning to be in relationship without doing all the work in the relationship is possible once we understand ourselves and what makes us do what we do each day.
Laney Coletti-Sarasino, Ph.D. Certified EMDR Practitioner
Hello I'm Laney. With a trauma informed approach, I work with adolescents, young adults, and adults who are experiencing mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, mood instability, grief loss, marriage or relationship issues, or clients who are navigating a major life transition. I am a Certified EMDR Practitioner (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. EMDR supports my clients in overcoming traumatic experiences, anxiety, OCD, grie/loss and other emotional challenges.
One of my specialties is Muliticulturall Identity Issues for individuals who have experienced identity issues due to cultural differences. This can be experienced as a result of either appearances (body shape, facial features, skin color), hair texture),, different cultural belief systems, or religious beliefs. Living in the U.S. and having different beliefs and cultural practices can be challenging with children, adolescents, college students, and individuals in the work force. When there is conflictsoccurring in the World or in your country of origin you may feel microagressions or discrimination surrounding you simply based on your appearance or dialect.
Hannah King, M.Ed
PA Certified Teacher
Executive Functioning Skills Provider
ADHD Educational Support Coach
Homeschooling Program Coordinator/Case Manager
Hannah is a PA Certified Teacher and has a young, interactive style in her sessions with children, adolescents, and college students. Hannah's time is divided between working with homeschooled families as the coordinator to design and help the chid and family implement the plan, remind the child and parents of deadlines , provide a structure with objectives, goals, and a weekly and daily calendar. She helps families and children with the challenge of staying on track with completing all the paperwork necessary. .Hannah also teaches Executive Functioning skills with her clients with ADHD,
The parents of Hannah's clients are often impressed with the trust present in Hannah's relationship with their child and how , with this trust, is able to push and be directive with their child and they actually listen.
With the frustration of ADHD on parents and children, children often stop listening to parents and tune them out. Although parents are well meaning they are in pain for their child and want them to feel better so they may go into lecture mode, or nonintentionally shame their child by pointing out issues. Once Hannah is on board, the parents can simply be parents and the power struggle that has been present between parent and child can dissipate and they can relax and enjoy the relationship once out of the role of disciplinarian or teacher to their child.
Samantha Sargent, Certified Adolscent Mental Health Coach
Samantha works with adolescents who are struggling with their dating relationships. Her clients meet with a therapist weekly and Sam meets with them outside of the therapy session when they have a need to talk with a coach for extra support. These kids are going through the tumultuous teenage ups and downs of dating in today's world of technology with Snapchat, Instagram, and cyberbullying.
Often her clients find it difficult to hold on to their sense of self while dating someone. All of their value goes into the other person as they were not on steady ground when they began dating. When their partner begins acting differently than the person they once knew by not being faithful or treating them unkindly, this can trigger many feelings and strong reactions. Some of her clients turn the anger in on themselves, question their own worth, and begin thinking it was because of the way they looked....if only they were thinner, prettier, or taller. All of these defenses are a way not to feel the real pain of the loss.
Because the loss is played out in the halls of their high school in front of peers those vulnerable feelings are difficult to feel. At times they retaliate online with posts to get back at the person they were dating. All of these actions often lead to public shame and embarrassment. They will do anything to hold onto the relationship, even at the expense of their mental health.
Sam is available to listen, reflect back, and validate the pain of the loss. And to be fully present for the intense raw feelings of a breakup, that in this day and age, is often played out all over social media and in harsh and unkind ways. The lack of discretion and privacy of some in this technology-driven generation creates other issues with the ups and downs of dating, that their parents did not have to deal with at their age. This lack of understanding on the parent's part often leads to frustration and the "just get over it" attitude which only pushes the child away and takes them feel more alone in the world. When a child feels profoundly alone after a loss other issues may present.
Sam can be very helpful to parents as well to help them understand how to meet their child exactly where they are, and not try to hurry the process. Sam emphasizes that the adolescent needs to feel supported and not alone at these troubling times as that aloneness leads to other issues.