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Relationships & Family

Child Therapy

Support for children experiencing emotional or behavioral struggles

Child therapy can give children a safe place to express themselves while helping parents better understand what their child may be communicating through behavior or emotion.

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When This Can Help
  • Your child seems more anxious, sad, angry, or shut down
  • Behavioral changes are affecting school, friendships, or home life
  • Your child has been through stress, loss, or a major transition
  • You want support that includes both emotional care and practical guidance
Support May Include
  • A safe place for children to process feelings and experiences
  • Support for emotional regulation, coping, and communication
  • Guidance for parents navigating their child’s needs
Good Match For

Children and parents

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Children often show stress, sadness, anxiety, or overwhelm through behavior, withdrawal, irritability, or trouble with school and relationships. Therapy can help make sense of what is happening beneath the surface.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

Our child-focused therapists use developmentally appropriate, relational care that helps children feel seen and safe. We also support parents with insight, communication, and tools that can strengthen the child’s support system outside the therapy room.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to child therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Paola Gutierrez, Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Paola is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Paola Gutierrez, AMFT

Associate Therapist