https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/home daily 1.0 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1589039967599-N6W1ZHVLXQ7EEEZFQ0FO/mike-fox-Ym301WfcEkE-unsplash.jpg Home - Child Therapy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584886581208-EWF0PMVNM2TTI9K8HOFQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Parent Guidance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584887128287-CIVHI4MLD8O2P0A8FKV6/Family+Therapy Home - Family Therapy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584813363139-F0OIMNL5CRGUSQ3ABT4X/Childhood+Development Home - Promoting Healthy Growth & Development Early intervention provides the opportunity to help nurture, strengthen, and improve children’s developmental pathways in life. Nurture & Thrive is a psychotherapy practice specializing in early intervention supports and helping young children who are struggling with emotional and behavioral challenges. Alisa Dashefsky, Ed.M., LCSW, a child clinician who is also the founder of Nurture & Thrive, utilizes effective, research-based methods, and interventions to help young children enhance their coping repertoires, promote healing and resiliency, and improve self-regulation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584813393643-8JKTHBFXMJIBPWI10AFI/It+Takes+a+Village+To+Raise+a+Child Home - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child Your child’s growth and development are precious. In partnership with you, Alisa creates caring and compassionate connections with each family to help understand your child’s strengths and challenges as well as all of the joys and struggles you experience as a parent. Navigating parenting, promoting young children’s healthy growth and development, and fostering resilient mindsets in children can be difficult at times, but you are not alone. As the African proverb teaches us, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” so together we can help nurture children and help them thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584813432073-YOKFRG6Q12PVGC4W3HEK/Nurture+Children+So+They+Can+Thrive Home - Helping to Nurture Young Children, So They Can Thrive All children are special and unique and possess individualized gifts and strengths in which they share with the world. While there are so many incredible joys of parenting and raising children, there can be many challenges along the journey too. An essential part of the treatment process in helping young children thrive is partnering with parents and caregivers throughout the journey. Alisa partners with each family to design and create a course of treatment that is tailored to address specific needs and helps support and optimize children’s continued developmental growth and progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584890395186-N2D4MS2YALC8F14D3GGT/Treatment+Specialties+%7C+Nurture+%26+Thrive Home - Treatment Specialties Include: Childhood Trauma Grief, Separation, & Loss Family Stressors Attachment Issues Anxiety Depression Difficulties in Child-Care & School Settings Attentional Difficulties / ADHD Irritability, Anger, & Aggression Emotional Regulation Difficulties Behavioral Regulation Difficulties Developmental Delays Fostering Resiliency Parenting Challenges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584890533533-45C72D2E8UHY7COSEN1D/Meet+Alisa Home - Meet Alisa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584804279380-PS8I7TW2UNVYMEBPWYL6/Learn+More Home - Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584890801976-TK7DHBASD3W5VBBOGZ1R/Contact+Nurture+%26+Thrive Home - Get In Touch https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/about-alisa daily 0.75 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584829408742-MJ16HNKKI5UAIDXG0HK1/Alisa+Dashefsky%2C+EdM.+LCSW About Alisa - Alisa Dashefsky, Ed.M., LCSW Alisa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who has worked for over fifteen years, in community mental health and school settings as well as in private practice. She has a deep passion for helping to nurture and optimize the developmental growth and progress of children and families and strives to make a difference in children and families’ lives. Alisa specializes in working with infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school-aged children and their families who are struggling with anxiety, mood issues, trauma, developmental delays, and emotional and behavioral regulation challenges. In her clinical practice and educational training, Alisa has focused on working with young children and their families in order to help foster resiliency and optimize children’s developmental growth and progress. Alisa’s extensive training and clinical experiences include having worked for nine years as part of a multidisciplinary Early Intervention Team and therapeutic school at a Community Mental Health Clinic where she conducted clinical and developmental assessments, play therapy, parent guidance, family therapy and consultations with preschools. Alisa’s education includes a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University specializing in Childhood Risk and Prevention (an interdisciplinary program in clinical and developmental psychology focusing on the impact of trauma on young children). Also, Alisa received her undergraduate training at Brandeis University where she focused her studies on developmental and clinical psychology. In addition to her clinical training, Alisa also has substantial research and teaching experiences, including co-facilitating a parent education course, teaching in a preschool, conducting research projects and formal evaluations, and helping to create a curriculum to reduce prejudice and promote tolerance among children. Furthermore, in order to enhance her clinical skills as a therapist working with children, Alisa has participated in numerous post-graduate trainings and seminars throughout the country focusing on various topics including play therapy, attachment issues, childhood trauma, resiliency, mood disorders, developmental delays and spectrum disorders, mindfulness, and sand tray therapy. At these professional conferences, Alisa has had the opportunity to acquire new skills and learn about new research findings in the fields to help guide her work in supporting and optimizing children’s developmental growth and progress. Finally, Alisa is passionate about helping children grow, heal, and thrive. She specializes in supporting children and families through the healing process and is honored to join families along this journey. https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/getting-started daily 0.75 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584828226919-E5AAL775BUG2BK7C6CX4/Phone+Consultation Getting Started - 1. Initial Phone Consultation The first step toward working together is a phone consultation, during which we will get to know one another. During the initial phone consultation, Alisa will explore the presenting issues with you. She will listen to your concerns and ask several questions to determine whether she is the right person to provide clinical services to help support your child and family. During this phone consultation, Alisa will explain the clinical assessment and treatment process. In addition, she will discuss fees for services. If it is mutually agreeable to work together, an initial parent consultation will be scheduled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1585871008644-HJZWWBJSR8FH30M158BF/Parent+Feedback Getting Started - 3. Parent Feedback Conference Once the assessment process is completed, there will be a parent feedback conference (60 minutes). At that time, Alisa will meet alone with the parents / guardians to share child and family strengths, information about the nature of the presenting concerns, clinical and diagnostic impressions (when relevant), and recommendations for next steps. Identifiable treatment goals will be explored in collaboration with parents / legal guardians if further treatment is recommended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584828303690-LDYKXMWYX4XCZQ5NM20W/Clinical+Assessment Getting Started - 2. Clinical Assessment Partnering with parents is an integral part of the clinical assessment and treatment process. The clinical assessment process includes approximately 4-6 sessions. It begins with an Intake (1st session), which is an initial consultation meeting with parents / legal guardians only and lasts for 60 minutes. Subsequent clinical assessment sessions will be planned in collaboration with you. Sessions are 45 minutes and may include a family session with all members, parent-child sessions, and individual child sessions. With parental / guardian’s permission, the clinical assessment process may also include phone consultations with school staff or other treating professionals as well as school observations if indicated. https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/parent-guidance daily 0.75 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584892057773-4BW4VJ2R2W80W42ACQR8/ki.png Parent Guidance Gain new insight and understanding about your child’s strengths, challenges, and developmental progress Initiate new perspectives and understanding about your child’s strengths and developmental progress as well as challenges Increase parenting repertoires and learn concrete parenting techniques that build on your child’s strengths and address your child’s specific emotional, behavioral, or developmental challenges Enhance parent-child relationships Decrease parental stress Increase toolbox of parenting strategies and develop new limit setting techniques and effective behavior management Learn strategies to help promote and model adaptive expression of emotions and healthy emotion regulation skills Address co-parenting issues Implement collaborative problem solving techniques with your child Provide support to coordinate additional services and referrals for psychological testing, medical evaluations, speech and occupational therapy services, and child-care and school staff interventions https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/services-overview daily 0.75 2021-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584845903263-49YQMNA25MJHBEDZER16/Play+Therapy Services Overview - Play Therapy Play is the natural language of children. Through play, children are able to utilize the toys and creative mediums to express emotions, practice problem solving, heal from trauma, improve coping skills, and experience a sense of mastery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584845661946-9AH0U5FRD4C5GW1PBEOV/Partner+with+Parents Services Overview - Partnering with Parents Alisa utilizes and integrates a collaborative approach to her work with children and families. Building therapeutic relationships with children and families, including strong partnerships with parents and caregivers, is an essential part of the psychotherapy and healing process. Alisa works closely with children, parents, and schools in order to help enhance children’s adaptive expression of emotions, increase coping repertoires and problem solving skills, nurture new pathways for healing and growth, foster resiliency, and optimize children’s continued developmental progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584846180828-QXTHOSDB3N9WSK3H39HY/smile.png Services Overview - Clinical Supports & Treatment Interventions Clinical Services for children often include a multi-modality of therapeutic supports and interventions including a combination of clinical assessment, individual play therapy, family treatment and parent guidance, school consultations and collaboration with providers as indicated (with parental and/or legal guardian’s consent). Partnering with parents / legal guardians is an essential part of the treatment process. https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/child-therapy daily 0.75 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584891149067-8VD91RPA0XP23F97QHUX/Child+Therapy+at+Nurture+%26+Thrive Child Therapy Engage the child in individual play therapy to promote adaptive expression of emotions, develop more effective coping strategies, and increase a sense of mastery Increase emotional and behavioral regulation (e.g., improve identification and adaptive expression of feeling states, increase self-regulation skills for the body, thinking, and emotions, strengthen empathy skills) Reduce trauma residuals (e.g., anxiety, frequent worries and fears, hypervigilance / reactivity, trauma flashbacks) and promote healing Support coping with grief and loss (e.g., parental separation, death, loss of a pet, family move, change in school setting) Promote positive attachments and connections with others Provide Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques (CBT) and mindfulness strategies to decrease anxiety, strengthen self-calming skills, and master difficult situations Increase self-soothing skills and reduce anxiety and stress Promote anger management and stress reduction skills Increase adaptive problem solving skills Offer social skills training to promote turn-taking, collaboration, and positive play interactions https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/family-therapy daily 0.75 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584892101269-FNG3VJ9K2CVC6W8A3AVO/Family+Therapy+at+Nurture+%26+Thrive Family Therapy Improve parent-child interactions Enhance communication techniques with your child Provide parent coaching and support to practice new parenting skills, enhance parent-child / family relationships, and manage more effectively your child’s behavior and emotions (e.g., limit setting, positive transitions) to promote adaptive expression of emotions, collaborative problem solving, and positive social interactions Offer sibling sessions to foster positive relationships and address conflicts Foster developmentally appropriate and imaginative play experiences with your child https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/trainings daily 0.75 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584892713161-5RI2OMBS2MDDD5TGXUZB/Training+Sessions Trainings Examples of some of the training topics include: “Fostering Resiliency in Children” “Developing a Toolbox of Strategies in Working With Young Children” Alisa welcomes the opportunity to lead training sessions related to childhood development. If you are interested in hosting Alisa for a training, please contact her for more information. https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/school-services daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1584892185495-TLKOYHI22LTEHXCHL2G4/School+and+Child-Care+Therapy School Services Provide on-site observations of your child at school or child-care center as well as consultations with staff Collaborate together with you and your child’s teacher or care provider to help optimize your child’s experience Participate in team meetings to help the school understand your child’s strengths and challenges in order to support the team in developing and implementing strategies to encourage your child's optimal developmental growth and progress Offer support to school staff in developing and implementing concrete and specific behavior strategies specifically tailored for your child’s needs to help promote self-regulation, play, and social skills Provide assistance in determining and locating the ideal child-care or school setting for your child Initiate advocacy and support for special education services of the highest quality for your child https://www.nurtureandthrivepsychotherapy.com/tele-therapy daily 0.75 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de9a672aecb5f2b9200111e/1632426537112-OSTA14V9H4FULM18BK7K/N%2BT+Teletherapy.png Tele-Therapy - Online Tele-Therapy During these extremely challenging and unprecedented times, we are continuously striving to promote opportunities to help children and families grow and heal in safe and nurturing environments. Online tele-therapy is available through live video conferencing, using a HIPAA compliant platform, that is both private and secure in order to help protect and ensure confidentiality. Alisa is deeply committed to providing early intervention supports and helping your child and family grow, heal, and thrive.