Are you worried about your child, age birth to five?

Do you have questions or concerns about one or more of the following…?

  • Separation anxiety

  • Emotional meltdowns or “tantrums”

  • Hitting, pushing or biting

  • Development and milestones

  • Recovery after a stressful event or big change

  • Concerns about your relationship with your child

Here’s how Maggie can help:

  • In reflective parent coaching sessions we’ll explore your child's challenges together, and we’ll collaborate to uncover new ways of thinking about and solving the problems, from a child development and neurobiological perspective. Parent support sessions are also a supportive space for parents to be heard and validated in their own feelings about the challenges of parenting.

    Relevant specialized training: Reflective Parenting Program, Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

  • Infants and young children need help to overcome the challenges they face. In parent-child “dyadic” play therapy we’ll alternate private coaching sessions (parent only) with play session with your child. I’ll give you the tools you need to improve the mutual delight in your relationship and help your child move past the challenges they’re having.

    Relevant specialized training: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Child-Parent Relationship Therapy

  • Some four and five year-olds benefit from having their own safe space to process their thoughts and feelings. Child-centered Play Therapy is an evidence-based practice, proven to help children with emotional and behavioral challenges. We may decide together that your child is a good fit for this modality, and you’ll be involved every step of the way. While play therapy sessions will take place with only your child present, we’ll schedule regular times to talk about your child’s development and what type of adult support they may be needing.

    Relevant specialized training: Child-Centered Play Therapy

What is Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health?

“The developing capacity of the child from birth to 5 years of age to form close and secure adult and peer relationships; experience, manage, and express a full range of emotions; and explore the environment and learn—all in the context of family, community, and culture.” - Zero to Three (Los Angeles)

Parenting is a brave and vulnerable process, and one that involves a lot of trial and error! Parents often worry they’ll feel judged by helping professionals. Please know, I work from a nonjudgemental stance and I am a strong proponent of “good enough parenting.” We all have strengths and weaknesses! I’ll be eager to collaborate with you to uplift your strengths and support your growth process.

In my work with families I value:

Respect for the personhood of infants and children ages 0-5. Recognition of the unique strengths in every parent, caregiver, and family in the context of their community and culture. Empowerment of caregivers as key therapeutic agents in their children’s lives. Cultivation of manageability in parenting, even when times are tough. Fostering and uplifting “mutual delight” between caregiver and child, so that both may experience connection, resilience, and joy. 

Nervous to ask for help?

We were all babies once!

Since infancy is where each of our foundations were laid, Maggie finds the
Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health perspective to be a helpful paradigm when working with adults too. While working with Maggie in therapy, many adults have found it helpful to pinpoint the times when their perhaps well-meaning caregivers fell short in supporting their development. Maggie may prompt you to take the stance of “caring observer,” and apply gentleness and self-compassion as you make sense of the events in your life. When we understand what happened to us from a developmental perspective, we can grieve for the things we may have missed out on as kids- perhaps a feeling of safety or nurturance- and we can begin to enjoy new experiences that may not have been possible in the past.
Some people call this “healing.”