Children's Therapy in Marietta, Roswell, and Atlanta
Helping kids build emotional resilience, confidence, and coping skills through age-appropriate, play-based therapy.
Understanding Children's Mental Health
Children experience the world differently than adults, and they often lack the vocabulary to express what they're feeling. Anxiety, sadness, frustration, and confusion can show up as behavioral changes, physical complaints, or withdrawal rather than direct communication.
Early intervention makes a significant difference. When children learn to identify and manage their emotions, build healthy relationships, and develop coping strategies, those skills carry into adolescence and adulthood. Therapy provides a safe space where children can explore their feelings through play, art, and age-appropriate conversation.
Our child therapists are trained in developmentally appropriate approaches that meet children where they are. We work closely with parents and caregivers to ensure that progress in the therapy room extends to home, school, and beyond.
Signs Your Child May Benefit from Therapy
Our Approach to Children's Therapy
Play-Based Therapy
Play is a child's natural language. Our therapists use play therapy techniques to help children express emotions, process experiences, and develop problem-solving skills in a way that feels natural and safe.
Parent Collaboration
We involve parents and caregivers as partners in the therapeutic process. Regular check-ins help you understand your child's progress and learn strategies to support their growth at home.
Building Emotional Skills
Children learn to name their feelings, recognize triggers, and use healthy coping strategies. These foundational emotional skills support better behavior, stronger relationships, and greater confidence.
Explore Children's Services
Focused support for the challenges children face most often, from anxiety to behavioral concerns.
Childhood Anxiety Therapy
Support for school anxiety, separation anxiety, social worries, and the physical symptoms anxiety creates in kids.
Play-Based Therapy
Developmentally appropriate therapy that meets young children in their natural language: play.
Behavioral & Emotional Support
Help with big feelings, defiance, focus, and emotional regulation at home and at school.
Teen Therapy
As children grow, our adolescent therapists support the unique challenges of the teen years.
Meet Our Child Therapists
Experienced, compassionate clinicians who specialize in working with children and families across Roswell and metro Atlanta.
Children's Therapy in Roswell, GA
Families come to us for child therapy from across North Atlanta, including Roswell, Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, East Cobb, and surrounding communities. We see children in person at our Roswell office, and we offer secure online sessions for families throughout Georgia when that fits your schedule better.
Frequently Asked Questions
At what age can my child start therapy? ▼
Our child therapists work with children as young as 5. For younger children, sessions are play-based and developmentally appropriate, since play is how young children naturally process and communicate. As children grow, we gradually incorporate more talk-based and skill-building approaches.
How do I know if my child needs therapy or is just going through a phase? ▼
Most children have hard weeks, and short-lived changes are usually normal development. What is worth attention is a sustained change that does not resolve on its own and starts affecting school, friendships, sleep, or family life: persistent worry or fearfulness, frequent meltdowns, withdrawal, regression, or behavioral changes without a clear cause. If your instinct says something is off, an initial consultation can help you decide.
What does anxiety look like in children? ▼
Childhood anxiety often shows up physically and behaviorally rather than as a child saying "I feel anxious." Common signs include stomachaches or headaches with no medical cause, trouble separating from parents, school refusal, excessive reassurance-seeking, perfectionism and meltdowns over mistakes, rigid routines, and difficulty sleeping alone. Learn more on our childhood anxiety therapy page.
Will I be involved in my child's therapy? ▼
Yes. Parents and caregivers are essential partners. Your child's therapist will share themes and observations (while respecting your child's trust), give you strategies to support progress at home, and provide parent coaching so the work extends beyond the therapy room.
Where do you offer children's therapy? ▼
We see children in person at our Roswell office, and we offer secure online sessions for families across Georgia. Availability varies by clinician.
Is what my child says in therapy confidential? ▼
Children are given an age-appropriate sense of privacy so they feel safe opening up, while parents stay appropriately informed about progress and any safety concerns. Your child's therapist will explain how confidentiality works for your child's age at the start of treatment.
Help Your Child Thrive
Every child deserves support in building the emotional foundation for a healthy, happy life. Our experienced child therapists are here to help.