Specialties:
Finding the right support begins with understanding what you or your child may be experiencing. At Sunshine Therapy, we work with individuals and families navigating a wide range of emotional, behavioral, relational, and life challenges. Whether you are concerned about your child's anxiety, struggling with overwhelming emotions, or looking for support during a difficult life transition, we are here to help.
Our therapists take an individualized approach, helping clients understand their experiences, build practical coping skills, and develop healthier ways to navigate everyday life.
Child and Adolescent therapy, areas we support:
Anxiety & Excessive Worry
Helping children manage fears, persistent worries, separation anxiety, and anxiety related to school, friendships, or everyday situations.
Depression & Low Mood
Supporting children and teens experiencing sadness, irritability, low motivation, withdrawal, or changes in mood.
ADHD & Attention Challenges
Helping children navigate attention, impulsivity, organization, frustration, and challenges with daily routines.
Emotional Regulation & Big Feelings
Teaching children how to identify, understand, and manage overwhelming emotions in healthy and effective ways.
Behavioral Challenges
Helping families better understand challenging behaviors while building coping skills, problem-solving abilities, and positive strategies.
School Stress & Academic Pressure
Supporting children and teens who experience school-related anxiety, frustration, academic pressure, or difficulty managing expectations.
Social Skills & Friendship Difficulties
Helping children navigate friendships, peer conflict, social anxiety, communication, and feeling connected to others.
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Encouraging children and teens to develop a stronger sense of self, practice self-compassion, and feel more confident in who they are.
Trauma & Difficult Experiences
Providing support to help children process distressing experiences and develop a greater sense of safety and emotional well-being.
Grief & Loss
Helping children and teens understand and express feelings related to the loss of a loved one, significant changes, or other difficult experiences.
Parent-Child Conflict & Family Challenges
Supporting healthier communication and stronger relationships when families experience conflict, misunderstandings, or ongoing tension.
Divorce & Family Transitions
Helping children adjust to changes at home, separation or divorce, blended families, and other major life transitions.
Anger & Emotional Outbursts
Helping children recognize triggers, communicate their needs, and develop healthier ways to respond to frustration and anger.
Coping Skills & Stress Management
Teaching practical tools to navigate everyday stress, handle challenges, solve problems, and build emotional resilience.
Adult Therapy, areas we support:
Anxiety & Excessive Worry
Helping adults manage persistent worry, racing thoughts, anxious feelings, and the stress of uncertainty so they can feel more grounded and in control.
Depression & Low Mood
Supporting individuals experiencing sadness, low motivation, irritability, emotional heaviness, or a loss of interest in activities they once enjoyed.
Stress & Feeling Overwhelmed
Helping adults navigate the demands of work, relationships, family responsibilities, and everyday life while developing healthier ways to manage stress.
Life Transitions & Adjustments
Providing support during major life changes, including career transitions, relationship changes, parenthood, shifting family dynamics, and new stages of life.
Relationship Challenges
Helping individuals better understand relationship patterns, improve communication, navigate conflict, and develop healthier connections with others.
Self-Esteem & Self-Worth
Supporting adults who struggle with self-doubt, negative self-talk, people-pleasing, or difficulty recognizing their own strengths and value.
Trauma & Difficult Experiences
Providing a supportive space to explore the impact of distressing experiences and work toward greater emotional safety, understanding, and healing.
Grief & Loss
Helping individuals navigate the complex emotions that can accompany the loss of a loved one, changes in relationships, or other significant losses.
Parenting Stress & Family Challenges
Supporting adults as they navigate parenting pressures, family conflict, communication difficulties, and the emotional demands of caring for others.
Postpartum Support & Adjustment to Parenthood
Helping individuals navigate the emotional changes, stress, uncertainty, and adjustments that can accompany pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Boundaries & People-Pleasing
Helping adults recognize their needs, communicate boundaries, reduce the pressure to please others, and build healthier relationships.
Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills
Developing practical strategies to understand emotions, manage difficult feelings, respond thoughtfully to challenges, and build emotional resilience.
Burnout & Emotional Exhaustion
Supporting individuals who feel depleted, overwhelmed, or disconnected while exploring ways to restore balance and prioritize their well-being.
Anger & Frustration Management
Helping adults understand emotional triggers, communicate more effectively, and develop healthier responses to frustration and conflict.
Parents and Families, areas we support:
Parenting Stress & Overwhelm
Helping parents navigate the daily demands of raising children, manage stress, and feel more confident in their parenting approach.
Child Behavior Challenges
Supporting parents in understanding challenging behaviors, identifying possible underlying needs, and developing effective, supportive strategies at home.
Parent-Child Conflict
Helping parents and children improve communication, work through disagreements, and strengthen their relationship.
Emotional Outbursts & Big Feelings
Helping families understand children's emotional responses and develop strategies to navigate frustration, anger, anxiety, and overwhelming feelings.
Communication Difficulties
Supporting families in expressing feelings, listening to one another, and communicating needs in healthier and more effective ways.
Family Conflict & Tension
Helping family members work through disagreements, understand different perspectives, and build more respectful and supportive relationships.
Divorce & Separation
Supporting parents and children as they adjust to separation, divorce, changing family dynamics, and the emotions that can accompany these transitions.
Blended Families & Family Changes
Helping families navigate new relationships, changing roles, household adjustments, and the challenges of bringing families together.
Sibling Conflict & Rivalry
Helping parents navigate sibling disagreements, jealousy, competition, and challenges that affect relationships between children.
Setting Boundaries & Creating Consistency
Helping parents establish clear, developmentally appropriate expectations, consistent routines, and boundaries that support healthy family functioning.
Supporting Children With Anxiety or ADHD
Helping families better understand their child's needs and explore strategies to support emotional regulation, routines, behavior, and everyday challenges.
Major Life Changes & Transitions
Supporting families through moves, new schools, changes in caregivers, loss, and other experiences that can affect family stability and connection.
Co-Parenting Challenges
Helping parents navigate communication, shared parenting responsibilities, and differences in parenting approaches, when this service is appropriate.
Building Stronger Family Connections
Encouraging empathy, understanding, problem-solving, and meaningful connection so family members can feel heard, supported, and valued.