Dr. Michelle Mawhiney

Hi! My goal is to assist children in reaching their highest potential and collaborating with families to create a more harmonious and happy life together. Through humor, and sometimes silliness, I build authentic and genuine relationships with children and their families. My therapeutic approach is centered on the specific needs of each child. Experience includes serving as an elementary school counselor in a magnet school for the gifted: supporting general, special, and gifted education students and their families, as well as experience as a grief counselor, working with palliative care and hospice care patients and their families. , " I believe all children should have a safe and healing place to work through lifes difficulties. My areas of support include 504 and IEP processes and services, executive function, academics, emotional identification / regulation, ADHD and ASD, anxiety, anger management, trauma, grief, and challenging family situations. ", I have an eclectic approach to therapy centered on each child’s specific needs. Under the umbrella of Attachment Theory and Family Systems Theory, modalities used in treatment may include play therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and trauma informed therapy.