Services to Clients: Treatment Modalities

There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces...And see how the flesh grows back across a wound, with a great vehemence, more strong than the simple, untested surface before. There's a name for it on horses, when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh.

- Jane Hirschfield, For What Binds Us

What makes this practice unique?

...the certainty that with a quarter century of professional experience, I bring a depth of authentic understanding of diverse therapy modalities to help heal individuals and families. My husband of 27 years and I both have raised our young people, now of college and high school age. I know the difficulty of asking parents to be "consistent"; to be "present" and "available" to their young ones and later, to their adolescents. Life challenges us as we struggle to accept our losses, transitions and heartaches. I believe in the power of our connections with others and in keeping our heart open, even in the face of adversity. Our strength comes in using our internal resources and external supports with the courage available to us - especially when we are most in need of support.

What services are offered by this practice?

1. Psychological assessment of emotional functioning difficulties;
2. Psychoeducational assessment for cognitive, learning & memory, ability, achievement, ADHD, and executive functioning difficulties;
3. Individual Psychotherapy
4. Individual Interactive (Play) Therapy;
5. Sandplay™ and expressive art, journaling and dreamwork techniques for children, teens, adults and professionals;
6. Clinical Hypnosis and EMDR for all populations;
7. Family Therapy and collaborative parent counseling;
8. Advocacy services for school and mental health issues children and teens face in school and agency settings, as directed by parents.

What are Dr. Heiko's areas of special expertise?

• Trauma: working with traumatized,children and adults to help manage their symptoms and heal from the traumatic experience(s);
• Anxiety: helping children and adults who experience overwhelming anxiety, panic attacks, selective mutism and OCD and who need to learn stress management and coping techniques;
• Attachment: facilitating family and individual work when children have attachment issues;
• Chronic Illness: assisting children and adults to cope more comfortably with chronic and acute illness and pain management techniques;
• Parental Coping: helping parents enhance and iimplement a disciplined and caring approach to parenting which incorporates competence with child development issues, child management and parental coping skills;
• Women's Challenges: providing adult women with therapeutic interventions which promote self-confidence and thoughtful acceptance of life-stage challenges;
• Evaluations: assessing children, teens and college-bound students who require psychological or psychoeducational evaluations of their developmental, cognitive, memory & learning style, emotional or special needs difficulties;
• School Advocacy: for IEP/504 Plan school resource teaching modifications, goal-setting and learning strategies for parents, teachers and staff;
• Consulting: with and and training professionals seeking certification with ASCH and/or STA, or who simply want to expand their areas of professional or personal growth through experiencing hypnosis or sandplay.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

-Plato

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