Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Supporting Emotional Growth, Resilience, and Connection
At Speak, Learn, & Play, we offer individual psychotherapy for children and teens to support emotional well-being, regulation, and healthy relationships. Therapy is tailored to each child’s developmental stage and unique needs, with an emphasis on safety, trust, and connection.
Our clinicians work collaboratively with Brooklyn families to help children and teens better understand their emotions, build coping skills, and navigate life’s challenges with greater confidence.
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Child and adolescent psychotherapy may be helpful for children and teens who are experiencing:
Anxiety, worries, or fears
Difficulty with emotional regulation or behavior
Challenges with peer relationships or social interactions
Stress related to school, family changes, or life transitions
Big emotions that feel hard to manage or express
We partner closely with Brooklyn families to ensure therapy goals feel meaningful and aligned with each child’s strengths and needs.
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Our psychotherapy services are:
Developmentally Appropriate: Therapy is tailored to a child or teen’s age, stage, and way of communicating.
Relationship-Based: A strong therapeutic relationship is central to meaningful progress.
Individualized and Thoughtful: Sessions are responsive to each child’s emotional profile and experiences.
Family-Centered: Parents and caregivers are supported as partners in the therapeutic process.
Our clinicians draw from a range of evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches to meet children and teens where they are.
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An initial intake to understand your child’s emotional needs and family context
Individual therapy sessions designed to feel safe, supportive, and engaging
Ongoing collaboration with parents and caregivers
Periodic check-ins to reflect on progress and adjust goals as needed
Therapy is paced thoughtfully, with attention to building trust and supporting long-term growth.
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Sessions are offered at our Brooklyn, NY practice.
How This Helps Your Family
For Your Child
For kids, therapy can be a place to play, talk, create, experiment, complain, wonder, and figure things out with an adult who is really paying attention. It’s a space where they can learn more about how their brain works, what helps when feelings get huge, and how to handle tricky situations with a little more confidence.
Therapy can help children build skills for relationships, communication, flexibility, problem-solving, and emotional regulation, but it’s also about something bigger: helping kids feel understood, capable, and more at home in who they are.
For You
When your child is struggling, it can be hard not to feel like you’re struggling right alongside them. You may find yourself wondering what you’re missing, whether you’re responding the “right” way, or why the strategies that seem to work for everyone else just aren’t working in your family. Child therapy can give parents a place to better understand what’s happening beneath the behavior, make sense of patterns, and feel less alone in the hard moments.
Our goal isn’t to give you a perfect script or turn you into your child’s therapist. It’s to help you feel more grounded, more confident, and more connected to your child, with a clearer sense of what they need and how you can support them.