Non-Discriminatory Policy

Child Therapy San Diego professionals abide by the Ethical Standards of Marriage and Family Therapists, according to CAMFT and AAMFT Code of Ethics, as described below:

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Marriage and family therapists advance the welfare of families and individuals and make reasonable efforts to find the appropriate balance between conflicting goals within the family system. ​Marriage and family therapists provide professional assistance to persons without discrimination on the basis of race, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, gender, health status, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or relationship status.

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Historical and Social Prejudice: Marriage and family therapists are aware of and do not perpetuate historical and/or social prejudices when diagnosing and treating clients/patients because such conduct may lead to misdiagnosing and pathologizing clients/patients.​

 

Fees 

Raphaella Croccia, LMFT, RPT-S - not accepting new clients

Psychotherapy and parent sessions: $185 for 45-minute sessions. Additional hourly rate is billed in 15-minute increments.

 

Play Therapy Supervision, Licensure Supervision & Consultation: $160 - 45 minutes - ​Supervision is an essential component of a therapist's training. Raphaella offers pre-licensed therapists’ supervision according to BBS standards and RPT supervision to professionals seeking advanced training in the field of Play Therapy.  

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Logan Brantley, LCSW 

Psychotherapy and parent sessions: $185 for 45-minute sessions. Additional hourly rate is billed in 15-minute increments.

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Cindy Lowe, AMFT

Psychotherapy and Parent sessions: $160 for 45-minute sessions. Additional hourly rate is billed in 15-minute increments. ​

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Claire McNally, LCPP

Psychotherapy and parent sessions: $185 for 45-minute sessions. Additional hourly rate is billed in 15-minute increments.

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Sessions are conducted in person

Working with children involves interaction through various forms of Expressive Arts and Play Therapy. Those are hands-on, relational, integrative and sensorial experiences that best happen when child and therapist are together in the Playroom. 

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In-person therapy contributes to the child's development and refinement of interpersonal social skills as it allows them to perceive differences in body language, tone, pitch of voice, and facial expressions.  In-person sessions allow integration of thoughts, feelings and senses while helping the child to develop awareness of personal space and boundaries.

 

Telehealth sessions are offered only to establish clients and in special circumstances. Telehealth is provided through a HIPPA approved platform according to HIPPA laws.  

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Intake with parents

It is important that we take the time to talk in detail about your child's development, emotional needs, strengths and areas of difficulty. During this meeting parents will share their concerns with therapist and therapist will share their clinical impressions with them. Together they will decide on the initial treatment goals, frequency of sessions and on the first interventions to be tried with the child at home. The parent's intake might require more than one session and happen prior to the beginning of the child's treatment. 

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Initial consultation

We are happy to offer a 20-minute initial consultation to families considering working with us. It is important that families and therapists are a good match for working together.

During the consultation parents and children visit our Playroom, meet the therapist and get to know the work we do at CTSD.  The consultation is a brief initial contact. If parents would like to discuss their concerns and hear therapist's clinical impressions, we suggest scheduling a 45-minute session.