DBT-Informed Therapy Course
For High Schoolers
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Child, Adolescent and Adult Therapist
Melissa Schnaar has over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. She understands that when a child is struggling, everyone in the family is affected. Melissa works with parents to better understand their children and identify ways to help the family system work better for everyone. Melissa uses an integrative approach working with children, using a variety of therapeutic methods that are developmentally age appropriate and child-centered. She strives to understand the child or adolescent’s individual needs and seeks to develop a trusting relationship in a safe environment. This enables her clients to freely and safely express themselves. Together with the family, Melissa will work to develop an individual treatment plan with the goal of helping each client meet his or her potential. She utilizes expressive therapies such as play, sand and art to provide alternative forms of communication and expression. As part of the therapeutic process with your child, Melissa may include family therapy or separate parent guidance sessions. Melissa has focused much of her career on working with children who have experienced trauma and related issues such as emotional dysregulation, self-injury, dissociation, eating concerns, and loss issues.
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Melissa is certified as a SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) provider. The SPACE program brings together parents of anxious children to provide both a supportive forum for connection and an opportunity to learn effective strategies to better support their children. Empowering parents to make meaningful changers in their own behavior, this program developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Director of the Yale Child Study Center, is specifically designed for parents of children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and related challenges.
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For High Schoolers
12 week in-person group where participants learn skills tools & to improve social competencies to help navigate the social world, develop relationships and improve performance at school and at home.
For 2nd to 5th Graders
10 week course, where students will explore social thinking by increasing their knowledge of social expectations, their awareness of their own behavior and how to modify their behaviors with Superflexible® strategies.
For 3rd to 5th Graders
10 week course, where participants learn skills tools & to improve social competencies to help navigate the social world, develop relationships and improve performance at school and at home.
What is Social Thinking ®?Â
Developing Social Competencies for children in grades 3-5th.
The Social Thinking ® Methodology offers evidence-based strategies that help individual competencies, flexible thinking, and social problem-solving skills. Learners can strengthen conversation skills, social connection, executive functioning, perspective taking, self-regulation, and relationship development while gaining a shared Social Thinking ® Vocabulary that supports success across settings. Across neurotypes, all students benefit from tools that help them think socially as they navigate both academic and social worlds.Â
For 2nd to 5th Graders
10 week course, where students will explore social thinking by increasing their knowledge of social expectations, their awareness of their own behavior and how to modify their behaviors with Superflexible® strategies.
For Young Adults
Social and emotional support group that focuses on independence, job readiness, social connections and mental health wellness.
For Middle Schoolers
Learn the social thinking skills to positively interact with same age peers. This group uses a combination of the Social Thinking® curriculum and expressive therapies to to support clients through social interactions and offers opportunities to practice social skills in a safe space.
For High Schoolers
Supportive group for high schoolers to improve overall mental health while connecting with peers.
For Middle Schoolers
Learn the social thinking skills to positively interact with same age peers. This group uses a combination of the Social Thinking® curriculum and expressive therapies to to support clients through social interactions and offers opportunities to practice social skills in a safe space.
For Middle Schoolers
Supportive group for middle schoolers to improve overall mental health while connecting with peers. Focuses on mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.
For 2nd to 5th Graders
Animal assisted play therapy group focusing on creative healing. Group members will work together to improve self-esteem, social skills and emotional intelligence.
For Ages
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