Relationship-focused, evidence-based therapy tailored to you

Services

Dr. Hanford is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with school-age children, adolescents, parents, families and adults. Specialty areas include:

Individual Therapy

ADHD
(including weaknesses in initiation, organization/planning and working memory)
Adjustment issues
Anxiety
Depression
Disruptive behavior
Eating disorders
(using multidisciplinary and, with younger clients, family-based treatment approaches)
Emotional dysregulation & self-harm
(adolescents only; using DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy - techniques)
High functioning autism
(formerly Asperger’s Disorder)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Stress and coping
Transitioning to college/launching to adulthood

Family Therapy

Family issues as well as concerns about individual family members are sometimes best addressed with all or part of the family present. This is particularly true when the family member who is the primary concern resents being the “identified patient” and refuses individual therapy. Family therapy typically focuses on communication and problem-solving skills, tracking target behaviors, rewards and consequences, validation, subsystems, boundaries, enmeshment and disengagement.

Parent Consultation

Some young clients refuse both individual and family therapy. In those cases, working with just the parents is often both a practical and effective option.

Assessment

ADHD (adults only)

Forms

Please complete the following appropriate (based on the type of client you are) set of forms prior to your first visit. Doing so will allow us more time to talk at the initial session. You’re welcome to bring hardcopies with you to the first meeting or email me your responses in advance. I’m required to give you the Notice to Protect, but you don’t need to sign or return it.