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Specializing in Childhood Anxiety, School Refusal, and Behavioral Disorders
Comprehensive evidence-based support for parents and caregivers (virtually in California)
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Your time is valuable, and you need help managing complex feelings and behaviors...
You want to help your child, but sometimes it's hard to know what to do to be supportive. Or, maybe you're worried that your support or boundaries will make things worse, and cause a lot of disruption in your home. I will help you navigate supporting your child well, while also working through the emotions that come up as a parent managing big feelings and behaviors.
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Parenting kids with social-emotional and behavioral needs can be challenging, but it shouldn't feel impossible!
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Childhood Anxiety can be complicated, and it can feel exhausting to manage! I will help you understand your child’s worry patterns, learn new ways of responding to them, and give you tools to build your child’s emotional literacy that go beyond learning to take deep breaths or counting to 10.
Children with Anxiety, ADHD, and other emotional behavioral disorders often have skill deficits in the areas of emotion regulation and behavioral control. They can be rigid, rather than flexible, and often have difficulty sustaining attention. These skill deficits set the stage for challenging behaviors. I will help you understand where your child's behaviors are coming from, and how to support them.
School refusal is an increasingly common concern for anxious kids and their families. I will help you better understand why your child won't go to school, provide support for using new skills to manage their anxiety and behavior, and teach you productive ways of collaborating with their school team.
My goal is to help you feel empowered in supporting your children and their social-emotional needs. You don't need to be a perfect parent! I will support you with strategies that are backed by science, but practiced in reality.
I'm Kristen McNeely
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
I am trained in both Cognitive Behavior Therapy and SPACE (Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions), two evidence-based treatments for childhood anxiety. I combine my mental and behavioral health education and experience to create a treatment plan that will work to support your child and their anxious feelings.
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that you are the best parent for your child and that even the best parents need help sometimes. My clinical approach will give you the tools you need to support your children long-term.
Combined with my solution-focused therapeutic approach, I use the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you understand the "why" of your child's behaviors and help you support them in developing appropriate skills.
that behavior is nuanced - it is the result of a learning history that includes biology, family systems, culture, and parenting style.
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Let's get started making changes toward a better future. Book a free 15-minute consultation today.
Guidance & Support For Parents & Families