Help! Our pre-teen daughter is really struggling. She said she is very depressed and last night she told me she has had thoughts of suicide. Can someone please recommend a therapist.
I don't know what part of the city you're in, but we've had great experiences with the Child & Family Institute in Park Slope. They have offices all over, including in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Westchester, and New Jersey. You may be fine, but I needed a sliding scale and they worked with me.
https://www.childfamilyinstitute.com/home
Good luck, and address it asap. Much love to your family.
@brooklynmom I initially went because she'd had a crisis and was emotionally crumbling but holding it all in. They did the assessment/intake and saw she needed trauma therapy. She was in trauma therapy for a year and then "graduated" into regular therapy. It's literally changed her life.
Your might also want to show her resources like crisis text hotline, if I have its name right? So that she sag them to use discreetly when she needs them. One of the first thing a I heard about text as a medium for this was that kids were using it under the table in lunchrooms or classrooms—live reporting in, live support.
Peter Walsh MD on UWS. And consider meds, if your DD is depressed enough to tell you she's depressed, chances are she is very, very depressed, don't take chances.
Pamela Sandler on the UWS is amazing. Not sure she is taking on new clients but you can try. Sending good thoughts your way.
your pediatrician's office may be able to help, ours has lists of people they recommend
I don't know what part of the city you're in, but we've had great experiences with the Child & Family Institute in Park Slope. They have offices all over, including in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Westchester, and New Jersey. You may be fine, but I needed a sliding scale and they worked with me.
https://www.childfamilyinstitute.com/home
Good luck, and address it asap. Much love to your family.
np: could I ask how you utilized them - was it for general therapy for your child or anxiety?
@brooklynmom I initially went because she'd had a crisis and was emotionally crumbling but holding it all in. They did the assessment/intake and saw she needed trauma therapy. She was in trauma therapy for a year and then "graduated" into regular therapy. It's literally changed her life.
Your might also want to show her resources like crisis text hotline, if I have its name right? So that she sag them to use discreetly when she needs them. One of the first thing a I heard about text as a medium for this was that kids were using it under the table in lunchrooms or classrooms—live reporting in, live support.
Peter Walsh MD on UWS. And consider meds, if your DD is depressed enough to tell you she's depressed, chances are she is very, very depressed, don't take chances.