Counseling Office of Ce Eshelman, LMFT

Sacramento Attachment Specialist for
All Relationships--Couples, Children, Teens

Reactive Attachment Disornder, RAD, Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment, marriage and family therapy, marriage and family counseling, adolescents, teen counseling, adolescent counseling, troubled teens, adoption counseling, couples counseling

   Attachment Specialist for Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo Counties

 

  You may have found this website in a focused search for  a healing solution for your Reactive Attachment Disorder diagnosed child or other attachment challenges within your family.  You came to the right spot, especially if you are located in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Yolo (or surrounding) counties.  I provide both office and in-home attachment-based therapy.  Yes, I often do House Calls, so that I can meet you in the place where the relationship challenges and behaviors are the most intense and disruptive--your home with your family. 

   If you are a parent who has met with numerous well meaning professionals only to find they really had no firm understanding of what it is actually like to live with attachment challenged children, let alone what it feels like to be you, then I am glad you found your way here.  I do "get it" and there is hope for peace within your family.  No quick fixes or expensive therapy packages promising a completely compliant child by the end of the week:  just a holistic attachment-based therapeutic approach that supports change, self care, emotional reguation, and stronger, loving relationships.

   I work with children, adolescents and their families. In my clinical practice I utilize approaches that are proven effective in treating children and adolescents who may have experienced trauma due to childhood abuse, neglect, abandonment or multiple foster family placements before adoption. These children have already experienced harm and I take great care not to cause them to be re-traumatized by the clinical interventions that are designed to help them heal and grow into healthy individuals.

  I utilize a model of treatment that holistically supports the needs of the child to form more secure and reciprocal attachment relationships with parents/primary caregivers, and to reduce the negative behaviors and emotional reactivity that many children demonstrate.

  It is my intention to create a loving, therapeutic environment designed to resolve trauma in children who have experienced abuse, neglect, loss or other extreme challenges to primary attachment.  My approach utilizes playful, accepting, curious, & empathic processes.

  The parent is an integral part of the therapeutic process.  Parent(s) are present in all sessions to support the parent/child bond.

  The parent/child relationship is the focus of the treatment and it is explored, examined, and experienced throughout the treatment sessions. The parent/caregiver is encouraged to utilize playful, loving, accepting, curious, and empathic interventions.

   Theraplay© is another treatment strategy I utilize when working with children, ages three through 14. The elements directly addressed are:  structure, engagement, nurture and challenge.

  • Structure will serve to “relieve the child of the burden of maintaining control of interactions. The adult sets limits, defines body boundaries, keeps the child safe, and helps to complete sequences of activities.”
  • Engagement helps to “establish and maintain a connection with the child, to focus on the child in an intense way and to surprise and entice the child into enjoying new experiences.”
  • Nurture serves to “reinforce the message that the child is worthy of care and that adults will provide care without the child having to ask.”
  • Challenge helps the child feel more competent and confident by encouraging the child to take a slight risk and to accomplish an activity with adult help.” (The Theraplay© Institute, 2003)

   These therapeutic approaches are proven to be effective in reducing the behavioral symptoms that are often associated with a variety of disorders including: Reactive Attachment Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, and others. Additionally, this treatment approach addresses the underlying fears, misperceptions, and distress from which this population of children may suffer, and which contribute to their disturbing behavior and lack of healthy attachment relationships.

    Addtionally, I will utilize individual Trauma Focused Cognitive Therapy with the child when trauma is interfering with the ability to think clearly, make decisions from a solid base, and cope emotionally to family interactions, life experiences and challenges.

 

   If you are looking for experience and passion for healing attachment wounds, send me an email or give me call.  I will be happy to consult on the phone and/or provide therapeutic treatment support for you and your family. 

   You do not have to figure this out alone.  There is hope. Your child can grow to express love more freely, and your family can live peacefully together. 

   Call now for the support you truly need to be a healing force in the life of your child(ren). 

Because love matters, Ce.

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Office:   3436 American River Drive, Suite 8, Sacramento, CA  95864

Phone:   (916) 403-0588                            

Email:   CeEshelman@yahoo.com

    

 

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