Providing Counseling and  Play Therapy for Women, Children, and Adolescents.

Treatment specialization includes and is not limited to:

• Play Therapy for Young Children
• Life Coaching for Women of All Ages
• Sexual Abuse/Assault Recovery
• Therapy for Depression and Anxiety  
• Parenting Support
• Grief Counseling
• Work and Career issues
• Stress Management
• Sibling Issues
• Divorce/Blending Families
• School Related Problems
• Personal Growth
• ADHD

I work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from therapy for depression and grief counseling to parenting support, play therapy for young children and beyond.  In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my clients individual needs to help attain the personal growth they’re striving for.

Play Therapy for young children is a highly specialized way of helping children express themselves when they are too young for traditional "talk" therapy.  This kind of therapy uses play as the young child's natural means of self-expression and the toys act as their words.  The key componant to Play Therapy is not only the use of specifically chosen toys but the complete and total unconditional positive regard the therapist holds for the child, and the belief that children, given the safety, security, and opportunity, naturally seek optimum emotional, mental, and physicial balance in the world.  Kristin Byrd is a Registered Play Therapist with the American Play Therapy Association.