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Parenting can feel overwhelming when your child is struggling with anxiety, behavior challenges, ADHD, autism, trauma, or emotional outbursts. Many parents feel stuck, exhausted, and unsure how to help their child feel calmer and more confident.
Today’s kids are growing up in a fast-paced world filled with screens, academic pressure, social media, and fewer opportunities for free play. These changes can significantly impact children’s developing brains and nervous systems, leading to increased challenges with emotional regulation, attention, sensory sensitivities, and social skills.
As a play therapist and child mental health specialist, I help families understand what is happening underneath children’s behavior. Rather than focusing only on changing behavior, my work focuses on supporting the brain and nervous system needs driving those behaviors.
My approach is neuroaffirming, relationship-based, and grounded in neuroscience, helping children build emotional regulation, confidence, and stronger connections with the adults in their lives.
I believe children are inherently good and wired for connection. When families understand how developing brains work, parenting becomes clearer, relationships grow stronger, and children begin to truly thrive.
Family life is a constant journey of growth and change. At times it can feel overwhelming, confusing, or far different from what we expected. Many parents find themselves struggling to understand their child’s behavior, emotions, or developmental needs.
In therapy, I help families use insights from neuroscience and child development to better understand how children’s brains and nervous systems respond to stress, emotions, and relationships. Together, we focus on helping both parents and children build healthier patterns of emotional regulation, connection, and communication.
Through this process, families learn practical parenting strategies that support each child’s unique needs, whether they are navigating anxiety, ADHD, autism, behavioral challenges, or difficult life experiences.
By the end of therapy, children develop greater confidence, self-awareness, and emotional regulation skills, while parents gain the tools and understanding needed to navigate new challenges as their children grow and change.
Robyn works with:
Children and adolescents (ages 0–18) needing support with emotional development, behavior challenges, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, autism, and social skills
Adults and parents seeking help with parenting stress, co-parenting challenges, anxiety, and family relationship concerns
Children and teens experiencing emotional and nervous system dysregulation, including Autism, ADHD, anxiety disorders, sensory processing differences, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), trauma, dyslexia, and challenges related to chronic health conditions
Robyn specializes in:
Areas of Focus
I work with children, teens, and families navigating a variety of mental health, developmental, and family challenges, including:
Anxiety and depression in children, teens, and adolescents
ADHD and executive functioning challenges, including attention, organization, and impulse control
Autism and neurodivergent development, using a neuroaffirming and strengths-based approach
Trauma, chronic stress, and difficult life experiences
Emotional regulation and behavior challenges, including meltdowns, defiance, and emotional overwhelm
Parenting support and family relationship counseling to strengthen connection and communication
