Child anxiety therapy, built around the family.
Anxiety almost never arrives alone in our program. It shows up with sensory needs, with school refusal and interference, and with family routines that are having difficulty holding. We treat the whole picture and we build skills that carry across environments. For children ages 5–12 in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
How we treat childhood anxiety.
Children come to us with childhood anxiety, OCD, panic, school refusal, separation anxiety, social anxiety, and the somatic and sleep symptoms that cluster with all of them. We treat the diagnosis and the conditions that usually come with it (regulation, sensory processing, family stress) on the same plan, by the same team.
The clinical core is evidence-based: CBT and exposure-and-response prevention for the specific anxiety presentation, layered with DBT-informed skills for the emotion regulation and distress tolerance. When psychiatry is part of the plan, the prescriber is a member of the team.
What therapy looks like.
Inside the daily program, anxiety care looks like:
- Individual therapy in CBT or exposure work, matched to the specific anxiety presentation
- DBT-informed skills groups with peers working on similar regulation and social goals
- Occupational therapy and sensory work for the nervous-system foundations that regulation rests on
- Parent coaching in concrete responses to avoidance and negative family patterns
- Psychiatry on the team when medication is part of the plan
Anxiety rarely arrives alone.
Most of the children we treat for anxiety also have sensory processing differences, attention or executive-function difficulty, mood concerns, developmental considerations, or a history of trauma. The diagnosis captures one slice; the daily reality is wider. Our team holds the whole presentation, and the care plan reflects it.
Where to start.
NorthStar Day is for children whose anxiety needs more than a weekly outpatient session can offer, and whose presentation may involve more than one diagnosis at a time. School has gotten harder, friendships have gotten quieter, and things have shifted in a way their family can feel.
The first call is a 15-minute conversation with our admissions specialists. We listen first, then point you toward the right next step for your child.
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.