Eliana is a therapist with experience and training in a wide variety of age ranges and diagnoses.  She works with children as young as 5 and young adults up into their 20's.    Therapy generally focuses on mood, emotional, social, behavioral, or executive concerns. Developing a trusting therapeutic relationship with both the child and family members, when appropriate, is essential to therapy.  Additionally, therapy generally focuses on the identification of concerns, education, and providing support.  Eliana enjoys incorporating a problem-solving approach while utilizing evidenced-based therapy interventions.  Such interventions include CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) approach combined with REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behaviorl Therapy) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) using a Client/Person-centered and collaborative approach.  

 

Eliana uses the above approaches in both individual therapy and parent/family training settings.  She strongly believes in collaborating with key people (including parents, other family members, teachers, and medical providers) in the client/patient’s life to target individual concerns.  Some sessions may primarily focus on parent training while other times it may be more appropriate to work directly with the individual within session.   Additional information about CBT therapy can be found at the link below:     

 

 

https://www.psychologytools.com/resource/what-is-cbt-worksheet-handout/