Lisa Bachmann M.A., MFT

Are you worried about changes in your child’s behavior?

Is your child having difficulty coping with a divorce or other loss?

Is your child being bullied or having difficulties getting along with others?

I can help your child manage their feelings better and develop better coping strategies.

We all want our children to live happy and trouble free lives. However, we don’t always have control over the things that happen to our children and sometimes they behave in ways that we don’t understand, leaving us feeling lost and helpless. Therapy helps children work through difficult emotions and behaviors which in turn, helps them feel and behave better. Through my many years of experience working with children I have helped children and their families with a variety of different issues including:

Separation/divorce/custody issues

School/peer issues/bullying

Grief/loss

Abuse/neglect

Foster care/adoption

Play therapy is the approach I use when working with young children. Because children’s verbal language skills are still developing, they tend to experience, explore and understand their world through play. Toys represent the child’s words and play is the child’s language (Landreth 2002). Therefore, play therapy works as a means to help children express themselves in a way that is comfortable and familiar to them. In turn, I as a play therapist, use the child’s play as a means to understand their world and experience. And using play therapy techniques, I help the child play out alternate outcomes to help them work them though the difficult times in their lives and develop better coping strategies.



	Are you worried about changes in your child’s behavior? Is your child having difficulty coping with a divorce or other loss? Is your child being bullied or having difficulties getting along with others? I can help your child manage their feelings better and develop better coping strategies. We all want our children to live happy and trouble free lives. However, we don’t always have control over the things that happen to our children and sometimes they behave in ways that we don’t understand, leaving us feeling lost and helpless. Therapy helps children work through difficult emotions and behaviors which in turn, helps them feel and behave better. Through my many years of experience working with children I have helped children and their families with a variety of different issues including: Separation/divorce/custody issues School/peer issues/bullying Grief/loss Abuse/neglect Foster care/adoption Play therapy is the approach I use when working with young children. Because children’s verbal language skills are still developing, they tend to experience, explore and understand their world through play. Toys represent the child’s words and play is the child’s language (Landreth 2002). Therefore, play therapy works as a means to help children express themselves in a way that is comfortable and familiar to them. In turn, I as a play therapist, use the child’s play as a means to understand their world and experience. And using play therapy techniques, I help the child play out alternate outcomes to help them work them though the difficult times in their lives and develop better coping strategies.