Services

We offer a variety of Creative Arts Therapy services for children and families

Our Areas of Expertise

Children 0-18 years old
Families
Trauma-informed care
Building healthy relationships
Adoption and foster care
Developmental delays
Attachment concerns
Pre and Perinatal support
Mental health & complex medical diagnoses
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Vicarious trauma
​Impulse control difficulties
Difficulties with adjusting to change
Sensory processing disorder
School support
Grief and loss
Early Intervention/prevention
​Parent education/support
Infant mental health
​Prematurity/NICU experiences

Services We Provide

​Play Therapy

Play is the natural way children express themselves, both literally and metaphorically. Play therapy is a therapeutic approach where children share their inner world: feelings, thoughts, stories, and experiences. Through the therapeutic relationship, we guide children to make meaning, increase understanding, achieve resolution, rewrite stories, and create a safe container for emotional expression.

Dance/Movement Therapy

Dance/movement therapy is the therapeutic use of movement and the body to further the emotional, cognitive, social, and physical integration of the child. It is a way to express, relate to, and make sense of – in a body-mind integrative way – experiences and stories that make us who we are.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is a mental health profession in which clients, facilitated by the art therapist, use art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem. A goal in art therapy is to improve or restore a client’s functioning and his or her sense of personal well-being. Art therapy practice requires knowledge of visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, and other art forms) and the creative process, as well as of human development, psychological, and counseling theories and techniques.

​EMDR Therapy 

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a form of psychotherapy that encourages the processing of distressing memories, which normally overwhelm a person’s coping abilities, through bilateral sensory input, including side-to-side eye movements, among other modes. It is successful with adults and children for integrating traumatic memories and lessening the intensity of such memories, thereby allowing individuals to develop more adaptive healing.

Family Therapy ​

(Including extended family, parents-only, and sibling support)
​When the entire family is supported, the child can flourish. Family therapy at The Mariposa Center can incorporate any and all family members (even pets, sometimes!) in order to improve communication and understanding within a family. We use a variety of modalities within our family sessions; many of which are described here

Infant Mental Health

​Infant mental health is defined as the healthy social and emotional development of a child from birth to 3 years. We are a part of a growing field of practice devoted to the promotion of healthy social and emotional development, the prevention of mental health problems in children, and the treatment of mental health problems of very young children in the context of their families. Infants cannot be separated from the context of their families, thus there is always a parent-infant component to this work.

Trauma-Informed Treatment

​We use a variety of trauma-informed modalities including EMDR (as described above), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and the neurosequential model of therapeutics when working with children and adults who have been exposed to trauma.

Early Intervention

We work with a number of early intervention programs to provide home-based services for families with children between the ages of 0 and 3 for a variety of social-emotional and mental health concerns from potty-training to maternal
​post-partum depression and anything in between.

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Other Services we Offer

Clinical supervision for therapists working toward their LPC,
as well as those interested in dance/movement therapy and art therapy.
Professional Reflective Consultation – for preschools/schools, daycares, early intervention programs, child protective services, and other organizations.
Classes and groups for children, parents, and professionals – Check our groups page for more information!
​We also partner and share space with a Feldenkrais practitioner 

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Please contact us if you have specific needs or questions
We love being creative
and pride ourselves in being flexible for families