Toddler Therapists in Bayside, NY

Dr. Kim has had considerable experience providing individual, group, and family psychotherapy to children, adolescents, young adults, parents, and families from diverse backgrounds. She has provided psychotherapy for a wide range of concerns, including anger management issues, anxiety, depression, mood dysregulation, trauma, inattention, disruptiveness, and social communication disorders. Dr. Kim also specializes in working with individuals and families with an immigration background. She has conducted research on the adjustment experience of recent immigrants to academic environments in the U.S. Finally, Dr. Kim provides both monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Korean) psychological evaluations. Her areas of assessment include ADHD, Learning Disability, Developmental Disability, Personality assessments.

I am a licensed clinical social worker who has been working with adults, children, and families since 2017. I have experience working with concerns regarding parenting, early infancy, perinatal and postpartum disorders, interpersonal relationships, trauma, domestic violence, and mood disorders. I take an integrated and culturally sensitive approach to therapy with a focus on mindfulness.

In my work, I am passionate about creating a safe and collaborative environment that can serve as a catalyst for self-understanding and change. My primary areas of expertise are working through anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am warm and empathetic. I strive to help clients improve coping skills, interpersonal relationships, heal past trauma, and build self esteem and understanding. Therapy work includes deepening insight, and implementing new behaviors or thinking patterns. I have years of experience working with ages ranging from young children to adults on both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.

A course of treatment must feel absolutely right for the client to experience success. I feature a collaborative model in order to obtain optimal results. With more than 25 years of experience, my approach to therapy focuses on an individual's issues as well as their strengths in order to maximize both potential and growth. During the course of my career I have had the opportunity to study and to put into practice many different therapeutic techniques. As I continue to practice, I utilize these techniques to best target specific issues for individual personalities.

Parents often worry about their child when alarming behaviors emerge. Challenges that arise in childhood can impact one’s mood, how one copes with stress, and identity formation. Similar issues can arise for parents who may be experiencing this role for the first time, impacting one’s ability to bond with their children. Early intervention can support children as young as infancy to promote healthy functioning into adulthood as well as support parents who may be experiencing difficult feelings related to their own history.

Your therapy has started from the moment you realized that you needed it and I want to congratulate you and celebrate with you. I believe that you have you are unique and as you become more present and aware of your self, your essence, you can begin to transform your life. We can work through talk, music and Music and Imagery. In your first session, we'll explore what brought you to therapy and then decide the most appropriate ways to assist you in your healing.

Raquel Crespo is a bilingual psychotherapist who has dedicated her counseling career to working with individuals, children, adolescents, couples, and families. Through the use of her education, experience and supportive psychotherapy techniques, Raquel is able to tailor her therapeutic work to focus on the strengths and needs of each client. She has spent her counseling career working with individuals, couples, families and groups in a variety of direct service and administrative roles. In addition, Raquel is a Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor for Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University

I have worked in the child welfare system for over 20 years. I understand the individual and family struggles that come along with domestic violence, trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse, etc. I have worked in New York City for my entire career serving the diverse communities in dealing with immigration issues such as acculturation, separation and reunification.

Dr. Lauren Tobing-Puente designed her private practice, renamed Connected Growth & Wellbeing (CGW), to carry forth her mission of supporting individuals’ development, including clients as young as toddlers through adulthood, and their families. We have grown since 2006 to meet the needs of the neurodivergent community, now as a dynamic group of licensed psychologists, postdoctoral psychologist, and mental health clinicians. Our specialties include assessing and supporting individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and learning challenges.

Lisa Wilkinson is a LMHC with Footprints which was started by a therapist who realized that often times the services provided to low socio-economic communities is lacking quality care. We noticed these communities were confronted with long wait times, disrespectful admins, and subpar treatment. The one and only purpose was to exploit the community for profit without providing the level of care deserved. We began from the inspiration to provide quality mental health care to the poorest of communities and treating the clients of this community the same way a rich patient would be treated in a clinic treating affluent clients.

With the right tools and a supportive environment, you can clearly define and achieve your goals. This is the approach I take in our therapeutic relationship: helping you identify and build upon your areas of strength to create meaningful and lasting changes in your life. I approach therapy as a collaborative, empowering process. Through our work, we will address your needs and goals and find techniques to help relieve your symptoms as quickly and effectively as possible.

As a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst with a specialized focus on children, adolescents, adults, and families, I accompany my clients in meeting their personal goals and in improving relationships.I am particularly sensitive to multicultural issues and I work collaboratively with each client based on their specific needs. I specialize in different forms of psychotherapy, including cognitive-behavioral therapy and psycho-dynamic therapy. I also work with individual patients using EMDR, a therapeutic technique to clear traumatic experiences which get "stuck" in emotions, body and brain and cause symptoms which bring clients into therapy.

Welcome! Thank you for visiting my page. I am a licensed psychologist practicing in Queens for 18 years. I am also a professor at Queens College where I teach clinical psychology. I see individuals from varying professions including teachers, administrators, CEO's, doctors and parents. I primarily treat anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, parenting difficulties, ADHD, self-esteem/confidence difficulties and Illness Anxiety Disorder. I am very happy to speak with you to see if my services provide what you are looking for.

I have over 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. I utilize a supportive approach to create a comfortable environment in which you can achieve your goals. I have experience treating trauma, depression, low self-esteem, bereavement, stress, anxiety, psychosis, relationship issues, parenting issues, and behavioral issues. I offer evidence based psychotherapy, which has been proven to be effective by the best available research.

Through one-on-one therapy, I hope to create a safe and judgment-free environment to build a strong therapeutic alliance with my clients and to experience deep self-understanding.

Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you have a highly sensitive child? Are you your own worst critic? Being a person with strong feelings and deep thoughts has its advantages and challenges. Through our work, I can help you better understand and cope with your sensitive nature. I also work collaboratively with parents to help manage the unique features of their highly sensitive child and make their children’s sensitivity more of a superpower than a challenge!

We are a group of licensed Mental Health Clinicians and provide high quality psychotherapy and counseling services. Dedicated to the total well being of all clients, we help to foster awareness of core issues and recurring themes. We blend traditional psychotherapy with trauma treatment, such as EMDR, hypnotherapy, yoga therapy and energy healing. This holistic and comprehensive approach facilitates an escape from old patterns and provides integrative techniques to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, while awakening the body and mind's innate wisdom to heal itself.

Every human being has the right to pursue happiness without being inundated with emotional and behavioral problems. Happiness is not optional but mandatory. Everyone deserves a fulfilling life. To achieve optimal success and happiness, we must maintain emotional health as well as physical health. If we lose this emotional component, physical health is not achievable, and vice versa.