Available Services
Child and Adolescent Psychoeducational Testing and Psychodiagnostic Evaluations
Psycho-educational testing and psycho-diagnostic evaluations entail a comprehensive look at a child or adolescent's academic performance, socio-emotional functioning, as well underlying cognitive processes that impact how he or she learns. If you have a child who seems bright but struggles in the educational setting, if you are concerns about your child having learning or attentional issues that are negatively impacting school performance, or think your child may have developmental delays or autism, an evaluation can provide you with clarity and a deeper understanding of what your child needs to succeed. An assessment will help you understand your child's learning profile, including brain processes such as attention, executive functions, problem solving abilities, visuospatial skills, learning and memory to name a few. Testing can help establish diagnostic clarity, such as whether the child is gifted, twice exceptional, autistic, has ADHD, a learning disability, or is impacted by anxiety, etc. Most importantly, the assessment provides an individualized road map for optimizing your child’s learning and mental health. It provides individualized recommendations and referrals based on your child’s strengths and needs to guide decision making with regard to school placement (including any necessary supports and services) as well as therapeutic needs. Assessments are funded privately or through independent education evaluations (IEEs) by local school districts.
Child and Adolescent Therapy
For children and adolescents, playing, drawing, building, and pretending, in addition to talking, are important ways of sharing feelings and resolving problems. Behaviors are seen as attempts to communicate a need.
In children, play is a tool that allows for them to explore and cope with difficult emotions and find solutions to problems. It allows for children to learn about themselves, others, and the world around them in addition to change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve their concerns.
Adolescence can be a trying time for both teenagers and their families. The teenager’s constant attempts to exert independence are often met by parental roadblocks. Often times adolescents who show signs of poor academic performance, disruptive behavior, isolation, depression, anger, substance use, lying, or stealing, are trying to communicate a need that isn’t being met. It is imperative to take these symptoms seriously and to seek professional attention before they intensify. Dr. Sherry works to uncover the underlying needs of the symptoms that are being manifested and help adolescents identify and verbalize their thoughts and emotions. She teaches them coping skills to manage their emotions, peers, family members, and various life circumstances.
Individual Therapy
When dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, or personal development goals, individual therapy provides a tailored and effective path towards improved mental, relational, and emotional well-being. Regardless of whether your struggles have been long standing, or they have recently surfaced as a result of new life circumstances, individual therapy provides a safe and confidential space to be able to sort through how to move forward. Individual therapy with Dr. Sherry will help you to gain insight into challenges, develop coping skills, and work towards personal growth and healing.
3R Parenting™
3R Parenting is separate from therapy services. It is designed for parents to receive invaluable support and training in how best to meet their child, family, and own needs through early parenthood and beyond.
3R Parenting focuses on building foundations for strengthening the parent-child Relationship, improving Regulation, and deepening Reflection, the 3 parenting muscles Dr. Sherry has found in her 15+ years of professional experience to be responsible for healthy and well adjusted children AND parents, lifelong.
Explore the link below or contact Dr. Sherry directly to learn more about how to secure confidence in knowing you are parenting and building foundations for the best future through adolescence and adulthood!
Preschool & Childcare Consultation
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC)
IECMHC consists of weekly, monthly, or quarterly consultation with early childcare education programs and providers that take place in the preschool or childcare setting. Consultation may consist of participation in daily classroom routines, modeling intervention approaches, sharing useful strategies, facilitating referrals, and/or providing trainings for providers and/or parents.
These activities are provided with the goal of helping early childhood educators, program leaders, and related professionals strengthen their knowledge about factors that influence social-emotional development and optimize early childhood development with individualized support to providers, children, and families.
PROGRAM BENEFITS: Reduce staff turnover and improve program quality and classroom climate.
CHILD BENEFITS: Leads to increased social-emotional functioning for children (self-regulation, social skills, protective factors, adaptive behaviors) and decreases in challenging behaviors and expulsions.
PROVIDER BENEFITS: Increase self-efficacy in addressing challenging behaviors, increased knowledge around social-emotional development, and higher levels of closeness and sensitivity during teacher-child interactions. IECMHC has been found to result in lower levels of provider stress.
FAMILY BENEFITS: Improves families' communication with educators, increases support of parenting skills and access to services supporting mental health.