Are you overwhelmed with your child's emotional struggles? Does it feel like everything you have tried to help them doesn't create lasting change? Are you struggling with feeling discouraged and looking for some relief for you or your family? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you have made the right choice by being here.
My name is Kate Halinski and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of counseling experience. I specialize in counseling children and adolescents struggling with trauma, anxiety or depression utilizing play therapy and expressive art techniques. I work collaboratively with parents and guardians to teach creative and effective parenting strategies to improve family relationships.
My name is Kate Halinski and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of counseling experience. I specialize in counseling children and adolescents struggling with trauma, anxiety or depression utilizing play therapy and expressive art techniques. I work collaboratively with parents and guardians to teach creative and effective parenting strategies to improve family relationships.
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I am a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor in the state of Texas, a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and EMDR Trained. From 2009-2016, I worked as an Adjunct Professor in the Professional Counseling Masters Program at Texas State University, teaching a variety of clinical courses focusing on child and adult counseling.
I counsel children utilizing Play Therapy, which is the most developmentally appropriate counseling intervention for children. In Play Therapy children are given the opportunity to 'play out' feelings and problems just as an adult 'talks out' feelings and problems in talk therapy. Play Therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.
I counsels adolescents by incorporating activity and expressive art therapy into treatment. These activities are a developmentally appropriate intervention that allows the adolescent to explore his or her thoughts and feelings using metaphors. The use of metaphors helps to create therapeutic distance and increases the emotional safety of talking about his or her problems.
Sometimes you encounter struggles in your family that are best addressed together. I am passionate about helping families cultivate healthy home environments and enhance familial relationships. I offer family activity therapy to assist family members at all developmental levels interact and work toward growth and healing.
You watch your child struggle each day and it takes all of your energy to make sure your child won't fall apart. People comment on how your child is stubborn, rigid and moody but you know the truth as you watch them overcome with crippling anxiety. Their fits are exhausting and they suck you dry! Sometimes you don't know whether you should punish your child for acting this way or hold them because you know they are struggling.
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