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[quote=Anonymous]My sweet 8 year needed therapy after having a panic attack at sleepaway camp.

Her therapy was art based so they would do art together and come up with methods of recognizing her anxiety symptoms and have ways to counteract it.

I found it so valuable and worthwhile. I tried techniques with her by myself before therapy, and I would end up feeling frustrated and helpless because after trying a bunch of techniques, she’d be like, I feel the same and at that point (it was always bedtime) I’d be ready to snap, “Just go to sleep!”

I called around to probably 10 practices before I found someone with an opening and they also took insurance.  I feel super lucky to have found them. After 5 months of therapy DD was able to fall asleep on her own (which was HUGE) and after 9 months we went from 2x a month to 1x/month and then stopped.   I really feel it helped her immensely. And me too!

It helped that our doctor gave us a huge list of mental health practices for all of NOVA. It gave me a place to start.  If you are in NOVA I’d be happy to pass the list on.[/quote]

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