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Nevertheless, the risk of contracting COVID-19 still exists. https://www.silverferntherapy.com/faqs daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://www.silverferntherapy.com/individualtherapy daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5effbf9a7c2a630b8c28a0ee/1594490957080-ZMLHAMQR7IDSTQE9ZF48/natalie.jpg Individual Therapy - Individual Therapy All ages. All stages. Individual Therapy is focused on your personal growth. Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy can help with a variety of emotional difficulties and mental illnesses. Weekly sessions typically last 50 minutes and can be short-term or long-term depending on the complexity and intensity of the issues. Topics addressed in psychotherapy can be but are not limited to: Trauma Relationship issues Death and loss Depression Anxiety Work/life balance Parenting COVID related social issues Daily stressors Individual therapy is client-based which means the therapist tailors interventions through various therapeutic approaches to best fit the client. Some of these therapeutic approaches include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness-based Therapies, just to name a few! A safe person and confidential space to express your challenges may just be the thing you need to start a new way of living, today. https://www.silverferntherapy.com/play-therapy daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5effbf9a7c2a630b8c28a0ee/52de7c44-4e32-4e79-bcfe-5a8285546ab5/unsplash-image-j4o87vrduLg.jpg Play Therapy - Play Therapy Child-centered Therapy WHAT IS PLAY THERAPY AND HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM “JUST PLAYING”? Through play, children can express their inner world and actively problem solve. Having a special time set aside for safe and confidential child-centered therapy each week, can give the child support to move through difficult times, and can increase his or her sense of security. Play therapy is a structured, theoretically based approach to therapy that builds on the normal communicative and learning processes of children. Therapists strategically utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. In play therapy, toys are like the child's words and play is the child's language. Through play, therapists may help children learn more adaptive behaviors when there are emotional or social skills deficits. Play therapy builds on the natural way that children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world around them. Play provides a safe psychological distance from their problems and allows expression of thoughts and feelings appropriate to their development. HOW CAN IT HELP MY CHILD? It has been found that children who have a chance to express their feelings through play therapy usually feel better and have less of a need to act out in the classroom or at home. It allows children to compensate in fantasy for real or perceived hurts, and give a symbolic resolution of fears, worries, and concerns. Play therapy is utilized to help children cope with difficult emotions and find solutions to problems. By confronting problems in the clinical play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions. Play therapy allows children to change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve their concerns. Even the most troubling problems can be confronted in play therapy and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehearsed, mastered and adapted into lifelong strategies. Research supports the effectiveness of play therapy with children experiencing a wide variety of social, emotional, behavioral, and learning problems, including children whose problems are related to life stressors such as divorce, death, relocation, hospitalization, chronic illness, physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and natural disasters. *Adapted from the Association of Play Therapy (www.a4pt.org) https://www.silverferntherapy.com/couples-therapy daily 0.75 2025-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5effbf9a7c2a630b8c28a0ee/1594682985346-2Y5JREFKRGR5HHS2O5XI/nani-chavez-EKHB_4kEYzw-unsplash.jpg Couples Therapy - Couples Therapy Therapy focused on relationships of all kinds Is your relationship in need of some support? Couples therapy may help with some of the following issues: Trust has been broken Communication is difficult Arguments are frequent You need help telling your partner something Unhealthy patterns Infidelity Parenting Emotional and physical Intimacy issues Substance Abuse As with all types of relationships, problems can look different for each couple. Finding new ways to communicate and discuss thoughts and emotions help to create a solid foundation for a healthy union. https://www.silverferntherapy.com/family-therapy daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5effbf9a7c2a630b8c28a0ee/1594684948765-J2POLTN5GUTS5FR09J90/jude-beck-a-nWU0o73r4-unsplash.jpg Family Therapy - Family Therapy Therapy for family and family-type units The psychological health of the family is paramount. Families are complicated and complex. 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