Jennifer Newkirk(She/Her/Hers)

Specialties

Child and adolescent psychology - Therapy for children and adolescents

Family therapy - Promoting communication and supporting family members to address challenges, reduce conflict and distress, and solve problems together

Emotion regulation - Learning how to identify, express, and manage feelings in safe, in-control ways

Parenting and behavior management - Understanding one's temperament and the temperament of one's child and learning ways to optimize goodness of fit between parent and child. This may include developing adaptive parenting goals and learning how to accept, contain, and lead one's child.

Anxiety - Treatment of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, selective mutism, school refusal, and specific phobias

ADHD - Understanding the disorder and how it affects children’s ability to regulate themselves and how this, in turn, affects familial and peer relationships as well as schooling

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Reducing unwanted intrusive thoughts and rituals through exposure and response prevention (i.e., gradually building comfort and confidence facing difficult fears, thoughts, and emotions without using rituals, avoidance or safety behaviors).