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remington Creates healthy connections to self and others through the natural language of play

I use my warm demeanor and integrative approach (a blend of art, activities, discussion and play) to foster a welcoming environment where children and young adults can share their inner realities without shame or judgment.

remington’s philosophy:

We can’t think our way through healing — we have to feel our way through it.

Play helps us do just that — feel. Play grounds us to the here and now, giving clients a safe space to explore, express, and make sense of big feelings that come up in everyday life.

Our clinicians join the play with curiosity and care. Together, we co-regulate and co-create coping tools to manage tricky moments as they happen. 

Play becomes a kind of rehearsal for real life — where kids learn not just to feel good, but to get really good at feeling all their feelings, growing their nervous system’s strength and flexibility along the way.

we work with:

While we treat a variety of presenting concerns, we most commonly work with the following symptoms:

  • Hesitation and shyness

  • Giftedness & Asynchronous Development

  • • Burnout
    • Expectations and assumptions that came along with living in a modern city

  • • Kids who avoid, deflect or refuse feeling talk.
    • Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)

  • Frustration intolerance

  • • LGBTQIA+
    • Gender dysphoria

  • Excessive Empathy

  • • Picking
    • Trichotillomania
    • Perseverative behaviors/thoughts

  • Emotional, Imagination, Intellectual, Sensory and Psychomotor

  • Painful Politeness / People Pleasing

  • Acceptance / Confidence / Esteem

  • Co-facilitate sibling sessions

  • • Low self esteem / low confidence

    • Bullying

    • Rejection / neglect

  • • Divorce
    • Safe Harbor Services
    • Consultation with Minors Counsel

    • Grief and loss

Our treatment Modalities:

mind

01

Cognitive behavior therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practice that helps you connect to your learned patterns. The goal of CBT is to become more aware of how inaccurate thoughts or negative thinking may affect how you feel and in turn how you behave or react.

Body

02

Somatic Informed Practices

Somatic experiencing is a practice that connects you back to your body in the present moment. To be in the body is to become aware of body sensations, impulses, and activation. Through nervous system regulation, the person develops more capacity (resilience & regulation) to self‐soothe, be present, and engage more fully in life.

healthy relationships

03

Social skills

The UCLA PEERS Clinic

The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) provides evidence-based social skills treatment to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in making/keeping friends or handling conflict and rejection.

healthy relationships

04

Family Systems

Family systems therapy (FST) views the family as an emotional unit. The goal of FST is to “understand that behavior is often informed by and inseparable from the functioning of one’s family of origin.” Through the lens of family systems, parents are invited by our parent coaches to get curious, reframe, compassionately connect, and understand their impact through the lens of FST.