Child & Adolescent Therapy

If your child has a 504 Plan or IEP, spring can sneak up quickly. Many schools hold annual meetings in April or May to review services and make decisions for the following school year. These meetings are important: what is decided there can directly impact your child’s daily school experience, including accommodations, services, goals, and how progress is measured.

If your child already has an IEP for reading, but you’re still not seeing progress, you’re not alone. A lot of families assume that once support is in place, results should follow. But in reality, many reading interventions written into IEPs are too general, outdated, or not implemented effectively.

Each spring in New York City, test season arrives. State exams, classroom assessments, practice tests. The calendar fills quickly. Conversations at school shift. Kids start comparing scores. Even children who usually feel confident may begin to worry.

Social life becomes more complex during the teenage years. Friend groups shift, expectations grow, and social situations get more layered. Teens want connection. They want to feel comfortable around peers and build relationships that support them.

Bringing your child for an autism evaluation or a full neuropsychology evaluation can feel overwhelming at first…

Screens are part of daily life for kids and teens. They use them for schoolwork, entertainment, communication, and social media. While technology offers benefits, parents and caregivers often worry about how many hours a day their children spend on screens and how it affects sleep, mood, and mental health.

Kids feel everything with intensity. Excitement, frustration, worry, sadness, confusion. These big feelings often show up before a child has the emotional skills or language to handle them. That gap can lead to outbursts, withdrawal, or behavior that looks challenging but is really a call for support.

When afternoons dissolve into tantrums and mealtimes feel like standoffs, parents want tools that work now. Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)—and its toddler adaptation, PCIT-T—gives families those tools. These evidence…

New York City is reshaping how city schools teach reading. As the largest school system in the country, changes here affect hundreds of thousands of the city’s students across public…

The hours between pickup and bedtime are where many families struggle. Kids hold it together at school, then explode at home. Tantrums, refusals, and sibling conflicts spike when everyone is…