Services · Children’s Therapy

Children’s Therapy

Sometimes you have language for what you are seeing in your kid. Sometimes you only have the feeling.

In-person in Rockville and Silver Spring, or by telehealth across Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Louisiana, and Washington State.

A view through a doorway into a dim child’s room at dusk, an unmade small bed by the window and a string of warm fairy lights glowing softly.
Who this is for

You have watched something in your kid that does not look right.

The parent who walks in looking for help for a child is usually carrying something they have not been able to put down. Sometimes you have language for it. Sometimes you only have the feeling.

Children’s therapy at Enrichment Wellness is for kids roughly five to twelve, and for the parents trying to figure out what they need.

The kid whose feelings move faster than their words. The third meltdown of the morning. The bedtime stall that turns into an hour. The school refusal you cannot reason them out of. The big feelings that arrive faster than their language for them.
The kid who is showing up differently at school than at home. Behavior reports that do not match the child you tuck in. A teacher email that sits with you all day. A friend group fracturing. The somatic complaints that start on Sunday night.
The kid who has been through something the family is still navigating. A move. A divorce. A new baby. A loss. A medical event. The regression that came with it, or the way the kid got too quiet in a way you cannot read.
The kid who is anxious, sensitive, perfectionist, or carrying more than their age can hold. The worry that has its own gravity in their body. The questions at bedtime that you do not always know how to answer.
The work

What the work looks like

Children’s therapy here is play-based, attachment-informed, and developmentally calibrated. Sessions are forty-five minutes, in-person at our Rockville or Silver Spring offices or by telehealth for kids whose attention can hold it.

A child’s natural language is play, drawing, story, and small careful conversations that happen sideways instead of head-on. Our clinicians work inside that language. A session might be twenty minutes of play that looks like just play and is actually the work, a drawing that tells us what words do not reach yet, a short conversation when the door opens for one, and a small skill practiced together.

Internal Family Systems scaled for kids, so a child can meet the worried part or the angry part without becoming it.

CBT and DBT skills scaled to development, alongside mindfulness practices that fit inside a seven-year-old body.

Eye movement techniques when a child is carrying something traumatic and ready to process it.

Parent coaching is part of the work. You will know what your child is working on, in language you can actually use at home.

A child’s hands building with warm wooden track pieces, absorbed in play.
What changes

The morning gets shorter. Bedtime becomes bedtime again.

The teacher emails change tone. Your kid finds words for what used to be only behavior. The siblings can be in the same room for longer stretches. The worry has somewhere to go besides their body. You stop bracing for the next meltdown the whole drive home.

You start trusting your own read of your child again.

Who you’d work with

Our child-specializing clinicians.

Zoia, Emily, Megan & Caitlin

Our child-specializing clinicians are trained to work inside a child’s natural language of play, drawing, and story, with care for the relationships a kid relies on to feel safe.

Trained for what kids carry

Additional training in IFS-for-kids, CBT and DBT skills scaled to development, and trauma-informed approaches where indicated.

Matched to your child

We match a child to the clinician whose style and lens fit who that child actually is. If the fit is wrong, we say so and we move them.

Your child’s progress is the only scoreboard.

The threshold

Come work with us

In-person in Rockville and Silver Spring. Telehealth across Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Louisiana, and Washington State.

Reach out when you're ready. Not before. Not after. When you are.

We'll be here.

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