1. Riverside Support
Providing Therapy and Support for
families dealing with Attachment and
Trauma Issues.

2. We Understand
Have you been seeking help and feel like others
just do not understand what your family
needs?
Do you feel blamed for your children’s
behavior?
Do you feel more alone and frustrated after
seeking out help?
Are you starting to feel hopeless?
We have been there too and we understand.

3. Education and Knowledge
• We keep up with the latest information about
how trauma affects childhood development.
• We help you learn and understand what that
means to you and your family.
• We provide parenting classes unique to
families dealing with trauma.
• We will help you find resources that will help
your family.

4. Strengthening your Family
• We start with the ground up approach.
• Often families are so worn out and tired that
they need help at the core.
• We treat the family as one client which means
we will focus on any aspect that needs
strengthening and support.
• We do couples counseling, family group therapy,
bonding therapy, individual therapy, sibling
therapy and any other therapy we feel may help
support the family.

5. Using Your Strengths and Humor
• Every family has many strengths unique to
their own family.
• We can use those strengths to help your
family become healthy.
• We can help you bring humor and fun back
into your lives.
• We will create a customized support plan
around your unique family.

6. Services We Provide
• Therapy and Support by phone and/or webcam
• In home therapy
• Group therapy
• Parenting Classes
• In office therapy
• Setting up and attending meetings with other
professionals involved with your family
• Attending IEPs and other meetings in order to
advocate for your family.
• Research for services and solutions you may need

7. Once Your Family is out of Crisis
• So often services will stop once your family is
no longer in crisis.
• We do not.
• We believe that once the crisis is over we
should equip your family with knowledge and
tools to help your family overcome obstacles
that will come instead of going into crisis
again.

8. Specific Education and Tools We
Provide
• Lifebooks
• Mask Making
• Understanding of Grief and Loss and Adoption
• Development of Identity in Adoptees
• Learning what needs are under behaviors and
how to provide for these needs
• Creating a positive family and adoptee narrative
• Therapy using the Theraplay Technique
• Therapy using DDP

9. We are always improving
• We believe we learn from parents and children as
much as we learn from our continued education – so
feel free to give us feedback or articles or ideas.
• We have been where you are and know that the
caregivers know their children the best, so please feel
free to tell us when you think something might not
work and why, we take your knowledge seriously and
want to work WITH you.
• We are just therapists, you are the caregivers that are
with the child(ren) 24x7 – you are going to make the
difference in their lives – we are here to support you.

10. We are always improving
• We believe we learn from parents and children as
much as we learn from our continued education – so
feel free to give us feedback or articles or ideas.
• We have been where you are and know that the
caregivers know their children the best, so please feel
free to tell us when you think something might not
work and why, we take your knowledge seriously and
want to work WITH you.
• We are just therapists, you are the caregivers that are
with the child(ren) 24x7 – you are going to make the
difference in their lives – we are here to support you.