Interventions
Family Therapy | Life Coaching | Skills Development | In-Home Family Support
WayThrough can provide experienced psychologists, behavioral health professionals, and life coaches who offer guidance, counseling, and evidence-based interventions to support your child’s mental and emotional well-being as well as assist the family in developing supports and structures in the home to minimize conflict and maximize healthy functioning. We focus on interventions that teach children/youth how to identify their true underlying needs, desires, values and goals and how to communicate them effectively. We empower the struggling youth to begin to feel confident and hopeful enough to try doing the hard work of communicating in a way that ensures they will be understood and heard. Our goal is to provide short term services in order to get to stabilization before we refer out for longer term services.
Family Therapy
We provide short term family therapy services using a variety of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, developmental therapy, and family systems approaches. Primary goals include family members learning skills in collaborative problem solving, taking family breaks when there is a high level of conflict, and setting up structures and routines that promote alignment of each family members’ needs and expectations. We primarily provide psychotherapy within a family therapy context. If needed, individual sessions can be provided.
Life Coaching
Teens and young adults are often looking for support in learning executive functioning skills in daily life, in school, and in the community as they strive for more independence and success outside their home. We partner with youth to first teach them how to identify their goals, and then collaboratively develop a “wish list” of skills they want to gain so they can feel confident and competent in their ability to achieve their goals. An important developmental milestone for teens and young adults is to learn how to make decisions that are consistent with their values and life dreams, and then learn the skills they need to be able to follow through with the behaviors that will ensure their success.
Skills Development
We provide “new wave” applied behavior analytic (ABA) services in order to promote safety, connection, emotion regulation, communication, daily living, and health related skills in our clients. Our behavior analysts are committed to empowering kids to be more fully engaged in their own lives and relationships on their terms. At the same time, we help kids directly and repeatedly experience how prosocial skills are more effective at getting their needs met than problem behaviors. No behavior is identified as “better” than any other. There are only behaviors that are more effective in a specific context. Through our intensive instruction, kids learn how to have more prosocial control over their world.
In-Home Family Support
We work with parents, kids and whole families in their home to help them develop the skills, routines, structures, and systems that are needed to create stabilization. We are committed to working with parents in a way that conveys respect for their parental knowledge, experience, and authority.