I combine creativity, play, and connection to make therapy both effective and enjoyable for children and teens. Through activities like painting, coloring, crafts, slime-making, and bracelet-making, kids can express themselves and build skills in a fun, hands-on way.

I also use interactive tools like Nintendo Switch games, board games, and card games to support teamwork, emotional regulation, and relationship-building. These playful, engaging methods help children feel safe, motivated, and connected while working toward real progress in therapy.

Benefits of Hands-On-Healing

• Reduces anxiety and resistance to therapy, especially for children and adolescents

• Builds rapport and strengthens the therapeutic relationship

• Provides a natural, non-threatening way to express thoughts and emotions

• Supports emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills

• Encourages communication, cooperation, and social skill development

• Improves problem-solving, decision-making, and cognitive flexibility

• Increases frustration tolerance and impulse control

• Offers real-time opportunities to observe behaviors, coping strategies, and relational patterns

• Enhances self-awareness and insight through experiential learning

• Allows expression of feelings that may be difficult to verbalize, particularly through art

• Increases confidence and a sense of mastery

• Supports neurodivergent, anxious, and trauma-impacted clients in a developmentally appropriate way

• Makes therapy feel collaborative, empowering, and meaningful rather than intimidating

• Creates a more engaging and approachable therapy experience