Individual therapy, by clinicians your child already knows.
One-on-one therapy, embedded in the daily program. Your child's individual clinician is the same person they see across groups, transitions, and care planning.
Individual therapy inside a coordinated day.
In an outpatient model, individual therapy is a 50-minute appointment by itself. In ours, it's one block inside a coordinated day. Your child's individual clinician already knows what happened in OT this morning, what the family therapist worked on last week, and what the psychiatrist adjusted. That context is on the table when therapy starts.
Frequency depends on the care plan: typically two to three individual sessions per week in PHP, one to two in IOP. The clinician carries through the rest of the day too, so the therapeutic relationship isn't reset every visit.
What sessions actually look like.
Sessions happen in small, low-stim therapy rooms with the door closed. For younger children, that often means play-based work on the rug. For older children, it looks more like a conversation in two comfortable chairs. Materials are out without crowding the space: art supplies, regulation tools, a sand tray.
The work in a typical week includes:
- Building the therapeutic relationship: the actual mechanism most evidence-based pediatric therapy rests on
- Working the goals on the care plan, in the modality matched to your child
- Processing what came up in groups, transitions, or family touchpoints earlier in the week
- Practicing concrete skills your child can carry into the rest of their day
Modalities and clinical approach.
Individual sessions draw from CBT, DBT-informed skills work (emotion regulation, distress tolerance), motivational interviewing, and expressive arts, matched to the child and the goal, not the clinician's favorite tool.
Trauma-informed practice runs across every clinician on staff. When trauma is in the picture, the work is phase-based: safety and stabilization first, then narrative work only when the child is resourced enough to hold it.
Is this part of what your child needs?
Individual therapy is part of nearly every child's care plan in our program. It's rarely the only thing. That's the difference between outpatient therapy and integrated day-treatment. If you're trying to figure out whether the program as a whole fits, our admissions specialists can walk you through it.
The first call is a 15-minute conversation.
Tell us what's going on with your child.
A 15-minute call. We'll listen first, then help you figure out the right next step.