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CHILD THERAPY
Sally Jordan Austin, M.A.
Psychotherapist
Marriage and Family Therapist
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(310) 968 3035
sjaustin4therapy@aol.com
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Child Psychotherapy
Children and adolescents communicate through their behavior often times more than through words. Child therapy uses age-appropriate methods of communicating with your child, often through play and non-verbal expressions such a art work, sand tray, puppets and playing games. Play therapy and art work can open the doorway to feeling expression and this can assist your child in labeling their feelings, or find emotional relief through their play. This then creates the basis for healing emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Sally is experienced in working with children of all ages, including adolescents.
Children need the time and space to feel safe and develop a relationship with their therapist, and in time can find the outlet of therapy very healing and transforming as they, along with their therapist, begin to explore and understand their inner word and outer behavior.
Often times parents and other family members are invited to participate in treatment, and family therapy sessions may be scheduled in addition to individual child therapy. This is because a child's behavior does not operate in isolation from the rest of the family, and so family sessions can help to understand and heal the family system that the child operates within.
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Issues Of Treatment
Childhood depression - often expressed through anger and acting out behavior.
Peer and / or family relationship problems.
Truancy or rule defiance.
Anxiety and psychosomatic problems.
Children adjusting to divorce or parent separation.
Separation anxiety or overly clingy or socially withdrawn.
Anger and hostility, sibling or peer conflict.
Poor school performance or non-compliance with school related activities.
Non-compliance of rules within the home or social norms.
Inappropriate social behavior
(to name but a few issues that can be effectively treated through therapy)
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CONTACT & OFFICE INFORMATION
Telephone: (310) 968 3035
Email: sjaustin4therapy@aol.com
Office in Calabasas, CA
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. MFC 45057
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Copyright ©2010 by Sally Jordan Austin.
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