Therapy
Individual, trauma, couples, and family therapy. Together, we explore your concerns and work toward skills and understanding you can use in everyday life.
Request an appointment Appointments & feesTherapy across life stages
Therapy goals can change over time. We begin with what is most important to you and work toward skills and understanding you can use beyond the session.
Support for big feelings, frustration, behavior challenges, and coping with change. Play and age-appropriate activities can help children communicate and practice skills, while caregiver involvement supports consistency in everyday routines.
A place to explore stress, friendships, family relationships, and a growing sense of identity. Sessions can focus on expressing needs, navigating strong emotions, and developing coping skills that fit the teen’s goals.
Time to work through worry, overwhelm, life transitions, or recurring relationship patterns. Therapy can support greater self-understanding, more effective communication, and ways to respond to everyday challenges.
Relationships & families
Whether you are working on a relationship, navigating a separation, or trying to support your child, treatment begins with understanding your family’s needs.
Space to address communication, recurring conflict, disconnection, and relationship transitions. Support may focus on strengthening a partnership or navigating the changes and emotions associated with separation or divorce.
Practical support for responding to strong emotions, setting clear expectations, building routines, and strengthening parent–child communication. Family therapy can help address patterns that affect the household as a whole.
Treatment focused on difficulties in the parent–child relationship when contact has been disrupted or strained. Each referral is reviewed individually, with attention to the child’s needs, safety, and any applicable court orders. Reunification treatment is distinct from a custody evaluation.
Common questions
Not sure where to start? A brief inquiry is enough to open the conversation.
Assessment is focused on answering specific questions about your functioning, strengths, or possible diagnoses. Therapy focuses on ongoing support and working toward change. Your concerns and goals help determine which service is a useful starting point; some people may benefit from both.
Caregivers can share developmental history, describe concerns across settings, and help practice strategies between visits. The type of involvement depends on the child’s age, needs, and treatment goals, with room for the child or teen’s own perspective.
Both telehealth and in-person appointments are offered, with in-person visits currently in Mission Viejo. The appropriate format depends on your location and the service requested; some evaluations may require in-person appointments.
Yes. Dr. Amiot offers trauma treatment, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) when appropriate. CPT focuses on how a traumatic experience has affected beliefs about yourself, other people, and the world. Treatment options are discussed in relation to your needs and goals.
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