One of the common questions we get at Family Roots Therapy is about the difference between our providers’ titles. What does a Licensed Professional Counselor mean as opposed to a Professional Counselor Associate or a student intern? What are all of those letters after providers’ names (LMFT, LPC, LCSW)?

Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is a model of therapy that specifically works with young children (ages birth to six years old) who have experienced trauma, domestic violence, and/or separation from a primary caregiver. In this model, therapists work with the child and a caregiver (often a parent, but can also be a grandparent, foster parent, or anyone who is a primary caregiver to the child) together in sessions. Therapists also typically work with the caregiver alone outside of the parent-child sessions to support parenting skills and help the caregiver understand and process their own emotions related to the child’s trauma responses. 

By Maddie Snell

Art Therapy is a form of psycho-therapy that focuses on self-expression through both a non-verbal and verbal method. The American Art Therapy Association explains that Art Therapy is an integrative approach that engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways “distinct from verbal articulation alone”.