Positive Developments

Our therapists focus on promoting growth, change, resilience, and contentment in the lives of the children, adolescents, adults, and families with whom they work. Treatment is guided by our view that each individual is part of a larger context including family, school, work, community, and culture.

Dr. Nancy Distel is a licensed psychologist and founding Partner of Positive Developments. She uses both short- and long-term therapy approaches to treat adults, couples, families, and children of all ages. Her passion is to help people promote their own emotional growth and to learn how to fully engage in their relationships and the world.

We provide comprehensive psychotherapy services for children of all ages via remote tele-health and in person. Our child therapists have specialized training in child clinical psychology, which informs the assessment and treatment of our clients and their families. Our integrative approach is tailored to each child's developmental level and presenting problems.

At Positive Developments we offer individual psychotherapy (via remote tele-health and in person) for adults seeking to address a variety of issues. Our therapists help clients to effectively work through the problems they face in response to stress, difficult life transitions, relationship issues, and emotional and behavioral difficulties.

Positive Developments offers specialized and unique parenting services to address a wide range of issues and challenges. We take each family's personal and cultural values into account and have found that parents benefit from our collaborative, supportive, and practical approach.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: a modified version of the evidence-based, live coaching treatment model for young children with behavioral problems focused on the parent-child relationship and discipline.Brief in-home interventions including observation, evaluation, and 1-2 "coaching" sessions. Our parenting interventions are based on positive discipline strategies.