Cathy Arrington

Our first session will allow an opportunity for you to provide observations, experiences, and concerns as well as your child/teen's chance to have a voice as well from their persepctive. Together, we develop a treatment plan that includes addressing common parenting concerns, need for guidance and how to reach me.

This is a great question and very common! Most parent(s) (and even kids/teens) will know if therapy is working when short term goals developed in the initial treatment plan begin to be met consistently. For example, being mindful of responsibilities or being respectful to others, or having more punctuality with time. These are some examples, but of course we will review them at the first session as well as check in for there to be adequate monitoring of Therapy efficacy.

Wonderful question! Your child will have adequate opportunity to express concerns about any hesitancy. I've found in working with children that they often can find benefit in therapy and may have had another idea of what the purpose was prior to starting. Some have found benefit later in life once they've become adults that therapy is designed to be supportive to their lives.