child & adolescent therapy services
At Square One Psychology, our approach to child therapy is built on flexibility and precision.
We understand the science behind each evidence-based treatment—why it works and how to best tailor its components for your child’s unique needs.
This integrative approach is what we call the Square One Method™ — a framework designed to help children move forward with clarity, confidence, and momentum.
individual therapy
Our approach to child and adolescent therapy is active, engaging, and designed to spark real change. We help kids and teens understand how certain patterns and habits can keep them feeling stuck.
By offering practical skills training, we teach kids how to better work with their emotions, build motivation, and develop strategies to navigate challenges more effectively. It's all about creating the momentum they need to grow and succeed.
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CBT helps children and adolescents understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is an active, skills-based treatment that teaches kids how to challenge unhelpful thought patterns and practice opposite action strategies in order override their avoidant responses to intense emotions and effectively reduce their emotional distress.
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ERP is a type of CBT that is exceptionally effective in treating children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, or phobias. Through a series of incremental exposures, this treatment helps kids practice approaching anxiety-provoking situations, manage the uncomfortable feelings and thoughts associated with the exposure practice, and learn that they can break free from the cycles that maintain their anxiety.
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DBT for Children (DBT-C) and DBT for Adolescents (DBT-A) were developed to address the treatment needs of youth presenting with emotional sensitivity, quick, intense emotional reactions, and behavioral hyper-reactivity that negatively impact day-to-day functioning. Treatment focuses on four core sets of skills: distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness.
In the context of developmentally-appropriate and engaging activities, youth learn to balance their emotions with logic, handle challenging situations with greater flexibility, and improve their relationships with parents, siblings, and friends.
parent-based treatment
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PCIT is a family-based treatment that addresses challenging behaviors in young children (ages 2 to 7) by supporting parents and caregivers in: more effectively guiding child behavior, reinforcing appropriate behavior with positive attention, setting consistent limits, and calmly following through with consequences.
Treatment involves two didactic parent training sessions and a series of live-coaching sessions to provide parents and caregivers with in-the-moment-support as they practice effective strategies to reduce challenging behaviors they often see at home and in public settings.
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PCIT-SM is an exposure-based behavioral treatment for children ages 2 and older with selective mutism (SM). By way of live-coaching and support, parents and caregivers learn key skills and strategies to help facilitate child emotion regulation and more effectively guide ‘brave talking’ exposures.
In this way, parents learn to be their child’s ‘brave coach’ and help their child practice brave talking across more people, places, and activities. To help a child’s treatment gains generalize to the school setting, the clinician may also provide teacher training, lead a series of brave talking exposures in your child’s classroom, and provide ongoing consultation to the school team to support progress over time.
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PMT provides parents and caregivers with didactic training and support in implementing evidence-based skills and strategies to manage their child’s difficult behaviors. Children do not attend PMT sessions; rather, parents meet with the clinician to learn new parenting approaches, collaborate on how to effectively apply them to real-life situations, and troubleshoot implementation so that you have a parenting playbook that actually works for your family.
We believe parents are uniquely poised to be integral agents of change in their child’s life.
Parent-based treatment is designed to help empower parents with practical skills and strategies to support their child’s development.
What’s more, you’ll learn targeted strategies to reinforce new behaviors and effectively navigate challenges, setting your child up for lasting success at home, in school, and beyond.
Group Therapy
Selective Mutism / Social Anxiety
“Littles” Group
Our “Littles” Group is a 90-minute, in-person therapy group for preschool and early elementary children with selective mutism or social anxiety. Through playful, real-world activities, children practice speaking up, engaging with peers, and participating more confidently.
AGES 3 TO 6TUESDAYS, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
“Older Kids” Group
Our “Older Kids” Group is a 90-minute, in-person therapy group for elementary school children with selective mutism or social anxiety. Through structured activities that reflect classroom and peer situations, children practice speaking up, joining conversations, and participating with growing confidence.
AGES 6 TO 9WEDNESDAYS, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMintensive Services
Selective Mutism / Social Anxiety
These multi-day group intensive programs are designed for children, ages 3 to 9, with selective mutism. Our program replicates a school setting (by featuring an analog classroom) and allows children to practice brave talking with adults and peers across small- and large-group activities. Parents also receive skills training and support as they learn to be their child’s ‘brave talking coach’, to help maintain treatment gains and facilitate generalization across time.
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This 1-day group intensive program packs in 5 hours of treatment in a single day. Carefully designed to replicate a day camp setting, this program provides children, ages 3 to 9, with seamless opportunities for brave talking exposures and peer-to-peer interactions. Each child receives 1:1 support across the day as they work towards their individual goals.
DATE: Sunday March 15, 2026
HOURS: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
COST: $750
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customized intensive
It is important to us to help make PCIT-SM accessible to children and families in need, regardless of where they live. We design customized, intensive child therapy treatment packages that can include 4 to 6 hours of treatment a day across a period of 2 to 7 days. Intensive treatments are typically delivered in our flagship NY office. We are also available to travel to a family’s home community to provide intensive services.
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FAQs
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In-person and telehealth behavioral health services are available to residents of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. We are also able to accommodate requests for intensive treatment services for children with selective mutism that require travel to your home community. Further information about this concierge service, or any of our behavioral health services, can be provided in your Discovery Call.
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No, our clinicians are out-of-network (OON) with insurance. However, we happily provide you with the appropriate paperwork for you to then submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement.
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Each clinician is assigned an hourly rate that is commensurate with their level of training and experience. Individual therapy, parent consultation, and school consultation sessions are billed at your clinician’s hourly rate, prorated to actual time spent. Intensive treatment is billed at a clinician’s daily rate. Further information about clinician availability and hourly rates are provided in your Discovery Call.
For concierge services — such as school visits or in-home services — there is an additional travel cost. Clinician travel time is billed at a discounted hourly rate. Families are also billed for transportation costs.
Group therapy sessions are billed at a flat-rate. 60-minute group sessions are $200 / session and 90-minute group sessions are $300 / session.
Payment is due, in full, at the time of services.
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Treatment duration, frequency of sessions, and type of treatment is fully informed by your child’s diagnosis and symptom severity. We are strong proponents of providing children and families with the skills and support they need so that they no longer have to meet with us on a regular basis.
Our work with families is goal-directed and transparent to ensure that we are achieving those goals together in the most cost- and time-effective manner.
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If and when helpful — and certainly only with your permission — we will collaborate with external behavioral health services providers to best support your child. This may include psychiatrists, occupational or speech therapists, executive functioning coaches, and/or pediatricians.
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Yes! Teachers are often an integral and relevant part of your child’s environment and, in turn, have the potential to be key agents of change in support of your child’s treatment goals.
To this end, we provide training for school staff as well as live-coaching opportunities for your child’s teachers to ensure they are correctly using learned strategies. We are also able to consult with you and your school district to develop a 504 Accommodation Plan or an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), if your child requires supports beyond the general education program.