Emotion-Focused Therapy

Helping Kids—and the Adults Who Love Them—Understand Big Feelings

Some children explode. Others shut down. Some parents feel like they're tiptoeing through every conversation or meltdown. It can be hard to know what to do with big, messy emotions—whether they're yours or your child’s.

Through a combination of emotion-focused strategies, mindfulness, and co-regulation, I help children, teens, and caregivers recognize, understand, and work with their emotional experiences—so those emotions become guides, not roadblocks.

Together, We Learn To:

• Identify what emotions are trying to communicate—without judgment

• Build an emotional vocabulary that helps kids feel heard and empowered

• Respond to “big feelings” with compassion, not control

• Navigate parent-child emotional loops that keep escalating

• Help children learn self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-trust

• Understand the role of sensory needs, interoceptive signals, and trauma responses in emotional intensity

My approach draws from emotion-focused therapy, CBT, mindfulness, and the real-world experiences I’ve had as a school psychologist, counselor, and parent. Whether we’re talking about anxiety, sadness, anger, frustration, or shutdowns, we work together to listen to emotions without letting them take over.

This isn’t about controlling feelings—it’s about creating space to move through them with understanding and intention.