Psychotherapy Services for Emotional Disorders
Adolescents and Children
- It can be devastating for a family when a child or adolescent suffers from symptoms of emotional disorders. Parents often vacilate between wondering if their child is merely "going through a difficult phase" to feeling helpless because they sense that something is very wrong and they don't know where to turn.
- Childhood and Adolescence are crucial developmental periods that are finite and can never be recaptured. Therefore it is crucial that children and adolescents develop and thrive in the healthiest possible manner.
- Parents often describe years of trying to get help for their child, trying the whole range of interventions suggested by professionals, having to deal with frequent calls from schools, feeling guilty that they may have caused the problems, feeling others judge them, attributing their child's problems to ineffective parenting skills and feelings of isolation because no one seems to understand what is happening in their families.
Sherri G. Harris has expertise in working with children and adolescents who experience severe symptoms of anxiety including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, attachment issues, attention problems, poor social skills, acting out and emotional outbursts. She has worked with kids and teens in in-patient, out-patient and school settings. A variety of interventions are utilized including play therapy, cognitive- behavioral therapy, EMDR, attachment therapy and interpersonal therapy. She also works closely with parents to keep them informed, to develop and reinforce the strategies that work best for their child. Sherri is available to meet with the child's siblings who can feel slighted because of the extra attention parents have had to devote to their brother or sister.
Sherri is familiar with available community resources, communicates with school personnel when appropriate and works closely with child and adolescent psychiatrists and pediatricians.
Adults
Areas of expertise include Acute and Chronic Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety Disorders including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Treatment for adults with severe emotional disorders includes a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy, attachment therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Sherri is familiar with available community resources and communicates with primary care physicians, psychiatrists and other service providers.