Frequently Addressed Issues

Children
Children are easily at a loss for words when it comes to expressing complex emotional experiences and distress. However, children often find an effective means of communication and self expression in their play. Dr. Rosen-Bernays has extensive training and experience in play psychotherapy, which allows her to gain insight into the inner world of a child. This serves as an important basis for treating them individually and as part of counseling the entire family.

Adolescents
Adolescents tend to express painful emotions in indirect ways. Typical indicators of their emotional difficulties are a loss of interest in their school work, a decline in their school performance, withdrawal from their friends or parents, or if they engage in various self- destructive behaviors such as eating disorders. Dr. Rosen-Bernays has been working with this age group for many years and enjoys guiding adolescents in finding productive and self enhancing ways to address their therapeutic needs.

Parents
Parents' capacity to connect with their children is essential in promoting a child's secure sense of self. At times, parents find themselves challenged in providing and maintaining a nurturing and mutually respectful environment for their family. It is not unusual for parents to feel caught in a pattern of agonizing family interactions, which over time solidify into feelings of frustration, anger and disappointment. Dr. Rosen-Bernays has assisted many parents to find new ways of understanding and meaningfully connect with their children and a renewed sense of purpose and joy in being a family.