Your child and your family are unique. The help you receive should be too.
CHILDREN | PARENTS | FAMILIES
There’s something going on with your child...
You know it’s more than “typical.” Your child feels things deeply. They’re more sensitive, more intense, more everything. And while you can’t always put words to it, your gut tells you they’re struggling.
Maybe you’ve worried you’re just being “that parent”—overprotective or anxious. Maybe you’ve told yourself if you just relaxed, it would all work out. But deep down, you know something is off, and you can’t shake the feeling that your child needs help.
Your child struggles with things other kids don’t.
When Everyday Life Feels Like a Battle
The Battle of Bedtime: brushing teeth becomes a war, pajamas get flung across the room, and requests for “just one more snack” push everyone over the edge.
At school your child might be the teacher’s favorite, but at home the stress explodes into meltdowns, or an anxious spiral about being liked by friends.
In the car, your child suddenly blurts out a terrifying thought: “What would happen if we drove off the road right now?”
You’ve tried the advice — happy thoughts, charts, rewards, consequences.
Instead of helping, it made things worse. The shame on your child’s face said it all. And when you’ve hit your own breaking point, yelling only leaves everyone shaken, hurt, and unresolved.
You weren’t prepared for this.
Yes, people warned you about clutter, exhaustion, and frustration. But they didn’t tell you about the way parenthood can push you to the edge.
You’ve scrolled experts on Instagram. You’ve tried the parenting books and tips from friends and in-laws. Nothing fits your unique child. Some advice feels outright harmful. The contradictions are overwhelming.
Now, guilt creeps in. “I shouldn’t have had kids. I’m failing.” You blame yourself. You pressure yourself to do better. You brace yourself for the teen years with dread.
Maybe You’ve Tried Therapy Before
And maybe it didn’t feel right. The focus was only on behavior. The therapist told you to reward the “good,” ignore the “bad,” and your gut told you something was missing. After a few sessions, you quit.
Now, you’re even more exhausted. You’re short with your child, short with your partner, and it feels like everything is unraveling.
Right now, you’re living in overwhelm. Anxiety one moment, numbness the next. Your child feels it too. And without support, those patterns only deepen.
But there’s another way.
The Truth: You’re Not Broken, and Neither is Your Child
What If Parenting Didn’t Have to Feel Like This?
Imagine:
Understanding what your child’s behaviors really mean.
Having tools to calm defiance, meltdowns, and spirals — and teaching your child to understand themselves too.
Finding connection again as a family, even through the hardest moments.
That’s the work we do together.
I help you shift from seeing behavior as “bad” to seeing it as communication. Through therapeutic play, your child learns to process big feelings, integrate past experiences, and build emotional resilience. At the same time, you’ll gain tools to parent with confidence — rooted in connection, not shame.
Why This Work Matters
Because when your child feels safe and understood, everything changes. Nightmares, meltdowns, anxious thoughts, and defiance begin to ease. And you can finally trust that your child is on a path toward:
Self-assurance
Emotional literacy
Healthy friendships
A more joyful, connected life
You don’t have to do this alone.
Your child isn’t broken. Your family isn’t failing. With the right support, healing is possible.
Your child’s story matters. Let’s write the next chapter together.
How I Can Help
Shift the focus from “bad behavior” to communication.
I help families respond more effectively, teach children new skills, and shift the energy in their homes. Behavior isn’t just defiance or anxiety — it’s communication. Together, we’ll look underneath the surface to find the real roots of your child’s struggles.
A deeply attuned approach.
I draw on decades of study in relational neuroscience, attachment theory, prenatal and perinatal psychology, consciousness studies, Synergetic Play Therapy, and energy work. I’ve also done my own healing, which allows me to hold space for even the earliest imprints children may carry into the playroom.
The Outcome
When the deeper roots are addressed, surface struggles begin to ease.
Nightmares, meltdowns, anxiety, and defiance often decrease or resolve. Parents feel more confident, children feel more secure, and families rediscover connection and joy.
What This Looks Like
For parents:
Imagine having someone help you understand what’s happening when your child:
Melts down over “little things”
Goes from sweet to sour in seconds
Shows baffling behaviors that leave you feeling alone
For children:
At the same time, I help your child:
Feel seen, accepted, and understood
Process past events and big feelings
Learn new ways to cope — all through child-led, therapeutic play
Hi, I’M Dylan.
I understand there’s nothing more important to you than the well-being of your family.
I’ve spent my entire adult life focused on improving the life and well-being of families like yours.
Instead of the band-aid temporary efforts of working to address just your child’s behavior, I help them, and you, understand the roots of their feelings, what’s driving the behavior, and how it affects all of you.
Through authentic interactions and without judgment, we’ll use science-based, cutting-edge methods, rooted in grounded neuroscience and consciousness studies, blended with energy work protocols when appropriate, that are gentle, playful, and effective at giving your child the space and tools to process their feelings.
Child Therapy
I provide play therapy for toddlers and young children, and even infants with their parents, on issues ranging from aggression and acting out, nightmares, and helping kids process transition, grief and loss, birth complications, adoption, stress & trauma from past events, and family transition.
Individual Therapy
As you care for children, you may feel your own complicated or traumatic childhood get triggered, and is impacting your ability to be the parent you want to be. I can help you explore and unpack that, and empower you to free yourself from the past that still affects you, so you can be the parent you want to be.
Family Therapy
Your whole family is affected when things are off-kilter, when stress and lack of communication is a weight that bears down on everyone. It can be so helpful to have someone to help you all learn to communicate, express yourselves, listen to each other, and learn how to find your balance, so you can enjoy each other again.
Get in touch.
I understand you may have questions about this process and whether I’m a good fit for your family. Schedule a free 20-minute consultation with me to get your questions answered and learn more about how we can work together.
Still Curious?
Take a minute to really browse through the site to find what you’re after, or simply reach out to me to find out directly what’s got your heart rate elevated and your stomach in twisty knots.
Take a slow breath. We’ve got this.
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I answer some basic questions here, and there’s an FAQ list at the end of all the pages under “specialties.”
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It’s really hard to tell from a website sometimes, that’s true.
If you’re looking for someone to help with your child’s behavior, you can definitely check out how I work with kids in both the page about the modality I use HERE and the page about working with kids HERE
If you’re hoping to work with your own childhood stuff, definitely check out this page HERE or if you want to do family work, go HERE.
Maybe most importantly, what you can expect when you work with me, including the financials, is HERE. -
You can find all the answers about what my fee is HERE.
