Therapy for Children, Teens, & Whole Families
Holistic, integrative, and relational Mental Health care
There's more to your child than symptoms. We want to know their story.
When a child is struggling, what you see on the surface is often only one part of the picture. We take time to understand their emotions, nervous system, relationships, sensory needs, school experiences, and life at home so your family can find support that truly fits.
We provide virtual therapy for children and teens across Michigan, with parent coaching, family sessions, and coordinated care when helpful. We accept Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, and Priority Health, and will be accepting HAP PPO & UHC soon.
We Support Children, Teens & Families With…
ADHD, autism and neurodivergent experiences: Executive function, masking, burnout, giftedness or understanding a new diagnosis.
Diagnostic clarity: ADHD and comprehensive mental health assessments to understand symptoms and clarify next steps.
Sensory needs and emotional regulation: Overwhelm, transitions, intense emotions, meltdowns and shutdowns.
Parenting and family relationships: Difficult behaviors, communication, boundaries, sibling relationships, and differences in parenting approaches.
Adoption, blended families and life transitions: Preparing for adoption, supporting adopted children, separation, divorce, co-parenting and grief.
School and peer relationships: School avoidance, academic stress, learning differences, bullying, friendships and adapting to a new school.
Anxiety, mood and stressful experiences: Persistent worry, sadness, irritability, withdrawal and distressing events.
Identity, confidence and belonging: Self-esteem, cultural identity, LGBTQIA+ experiences and understanding who they are as they grow.
Not sure what kind of support you need? We can start with a conversation and figure out the next step together.
How We Support The Family
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One-on-one sessions where your child or teen can process emotions, develop self-regulation skills, and build confidence in a safe, affirming space. Because we're fully virtual, we use interactive online platforms designed for therapeutic play and engagement, allowing younger children to communicate naturally through games, art, and movement in the comfort of their own home. With teens, we create a judgment-free space for exploration and growth.
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Parent sessions bring together practical guidance and a deeper understanding of your child’s development, helping you respond to difficult behaviors, support emotional regulation and build routines that fit your family. We help you make sense of research on developing brains and nervous systems, translating relevant findings into ways to recognize overwhelm, offer co-regulation and set boundaries while preserving connection.
As you try approaches at home, we talk through what you notice and refine the strategies together, so you have support with both the everyday decisions and the questions that take more time to untangle. Parents seeking their own individual therapy can explore that with our team as well; depending on the treatment arrangement and what best supports everyone involved, care may involve the family’s therapist or a separate clinician, with roles and privacy expectations discussed clearly.
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When your child is struggling, the whole family feels it. Family sessions help everyone feel heard and move toward greater understanding, communication, and harmony.
Shared sessions create opportunities to work directly on communication, trust and patterns that keep families feeling stuck. Some sessions support a child’s individual treatment goals with a parent involved. In family therapy, the family’s relationships are the focus of care, with shared goals for how you understand and support one another.
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As your child’s therapy develops, we stay in conversation with you about the goals taking shape and how you can support the work at home. Parent updates may include strategies to try together, ways to respond when difficulties arise and observations that help us refine the plan, while clear agreements about privacy give your child or teen room to build trust with their therapist.
Our aim is to help your family build understanding, communication and relationship skills you can continue drawing on through future stages of life.
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Supporting your child means working together with everyone involved in their care. We collaborate with teachers, school counselors, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and other providers to ensure coordinated support, and we can advocate for appropriate school accommodations when needed.
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Therapy is often only one part of helping a child or teen feel more supported in daily life. Depending on your child’s goals, needs, and existing care, we may also recommend practical coaching, the Safe and Sound Protocol, coordination with other providers, or referrals to trusted specialists.
Executive function coaching helps children and teens build workable skills for organization, planning, time management, follow-through, and emotional regulation. The goal is not to make your child work like someone else, but to find strategies that fit the way their brain works.
The Safe and Sound Protocol is a music-based listening intervention that may complement therapy by supporting nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and emotional resilience. It is delivered from home with guidance from our team.
When another kind of support could be helpful, such as occupational therapy, psychiatric care, nutrition support, or another specialized service, we can help your family think through the options and coordinate care when appropriate. Integrative care means looking at the full picture and building a plan that makes sense for your actual life, not adding services your child does not need.
Whole Health Care for the Whole Child
We go beyond traditional methods because your child's care should be as unique as they are.
Your child's struggles don't exist in a vacuum; their history, neurology, relationships, sensory experiences, identity, and environment all shape how they think, feel, and move through the world.
Whole-health care means understanding how your child's mind, emotions, nervous system, and environment interact. We explore how sleep, stress, sensory experiences, relationships, family culture, and school dynamics may be influencing their wellbeing, then help you build personalized treatment plans that support each layer.
We address emotional and behavioral patterns at their source while also helping children, teens, and families develop real, actionable strategies to create lasting change in daily life.
Our work combines somatic healing, relational therapy, nervous system regulation, and evidence-based treatment to create a therapeutic experience that responds to your child's real needs and evolves as they do.
Not Sure if Your Child Needs Therapy? Here’s a Few Signs to Pay Attention to:
Consider reaching out if you're noticing:
A gut feeling that something is off, even if you can't name it
Frequent meltdowns that feel bigger than the situation
Difficulty with transitions, changes in routine, or unexpected shifts
Persistent worries or fears that interfere with daily life
Withdrawal from friends or activities they used to enjoy
Struggles at school that don't improve with extra support
Difficulty managing emotions, expressing needs, or asking for help
Sleep issues, appetite changes, or unexplained physical complaints
Social challenges or feeling "different" from peers
Emotional outbursts and sensory sensitivities
School refusal, academic stress, or performance anxiety
A Familiar Space. New Ways to Connect.
Virtual Care as a Therapuetic Advantage
Between school, activities, medical appointments and work, family schedules can already involve a lot of getting from one place to another. Virtual therapy makes room for support without adding another drive, allowing children, teens and caregivers to connect from a comfortable, private space at home.
Our therapists use interactive online tools and activities alongside evidence-based therapeutic approaches to help children and teens connect, express themselves and stay engaged. Shaped around each young person’s age, interests and needs, online sessions can feel familiar to children and teens who already use technology to connect with others. For some, being in their own space can make it easier to settle in and participate.
Our therapist offer flexible scheduling options including weekday morning, afternoon and evening appointments, plus weekend morning and afternoon options.
Collaborative Care to Support Your Child
At Michigan Wellbeing Therapy Clinic, collaborative care means taking an active role in connecting the support your child receives at school, at home and through their healthcare team. With the appropriate permissions, collaboration may include:
Psychiatrists and prescribing clinicians: Sharing relevant observations about symptoms, functioning and goals to inform their medication-management decisions.
Pediatricians and medical providers: Coordinating around health concerns that may affect wellbeing and participation in therapy.
Teachers and school counselors: Discussing emotional, academic and sensory needs, supporting requests for accommodations and exploring learning environments that fit your child.
Coaches, tutors and other providers: Aligning practical strategies so support is more consistent across settings.
Support that evolves as they do.
Healing takes time, and it asks for curiosity and compassion from everyone involved. That's why we work to meet you exactly where you are, using an integrative approach that fits your family's unique story.
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Beginning with a parent or caregiver conversation gives us time to learn about your child’s history, strengths and support network while hearing what you hope therapy will offer.
Together, we consider how to introduce your child to the process in a way that feels comfortable and makes room for their perspective.
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Your child’s first meeting may include you, or an older child or teen who feels ready may prefer individual time after the parent conversation.
As the relationship develops, we pay attention to what helps them feel comfortable enough to participate, allowing their developmental needs and treatment goals to guide the pace.
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We work with our clients to decide how often to meet and which session formats best support your goals. Your treatment plan may include individual sessions with your child, one-on-one parent sessions, shared parent-child sessions and family sessions as appropriate.
We explain the purpose of each session format and adjust the frequency and mix as your family’s needs evolve.
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We work with you and your family to create a treatment plan with goals for your child’s individual needs and your family’s relationships.
Parent updates, practical strategies and opportunities to practice between sessions help connect therapy with life at home. We revisit those goals together and adapt the plan as your needs change.
Specialized Support
Adoption & Blended-Family Support
Our team specializes in adoption-related support, working with parents preparing for adoption, children who have been adopted and families navigating the relationships and adjustments that can come with adoption or blending households.
Through conversations about belonging, identity, attachment, and family connection, we take time to understand your family’s experience and shape support around the questions and relationships that matter at this stage.
Support for High-Masking Children and Teens
We also work with children and teens who have learned to mask their struggles, appearing fine on the surface while quietly exhausted underneath. Some hold it together all day at school, then fall apart the moment they get home. This kind of masking is exhausting, and over time it can lead to burnout, anxiety, and a disconnection from their true selves. We help these kids understand why they're so tired and build lives where they don't have to perform just to get through the day.
Get an Integrative Perspective on Your Child’s Treatment Plan
If your child already works with a therapist, you’re welcome to consult with our team for an additional perspective on their care. We take time to understand your concerns, current goals, what has helped and where questions remain. With your permission, we can review relevant treatment information and collaborate with the existing therapist or support team.
Together, we consider emotional health, neurodevelopmental and sensory needs, family relationships, school demands and other supports. We help you develop a comprehensive treatment plan or refine an existing one, with priorities and recommendations you can discuss with your care team. A consultation can complement the care you already have; you do not need to transfer therapists.
Consultation & School Advocacy
School advocacy can include helping families communicate their child’s needs, request appropriate accommodations and explore whether a learning environment fits their academic, developmental and sensory needs. We work with you to make informed decisions about support and schooling.
Virtual Assessments, Consultation & Treatment Planning
A Clearer Understanding of Your Child’s Needs
Understanding your child’s needs can change how your family makes sense of what has been happening and open up possibilities for care that felt hard to see before. Michigan Wellbeing Therapy Clinic offers virtual ADHD assessments and comprehensive mental health assessments to explore symptoms, consider possible diagnoses and rule out alternatives when the clinical findings support doing so.
We work through the findings with you so they become a meaningful foundation for treatment and support. Our assessments do not include comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations.
You can also consult with us about neurodivergence, giftedness or sensory needs without committing to ongoing therapy, giving your family space to understand the options and consider what would be most helpful
Common Questions
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The first session is a place to slow down and begin making sense of the full picture. We listen to what has brought your family here, learn about your child’s strengths, relationships, routines, school experiences, and the moments that have felt hardest to navigate. We also want to hear what you hope could become possible.
Depending on your child’s age and needs, the first session may include time with you, your child, or both. From there, we will begin shaping a plan that feels thoughtful, collaborative, and grounded in what matters most to your family.
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Many children and teens feel uncertain about therapy at first, especially when they are not the one who asked for help. They do not need to arrive ready to open up or explain everything right away.
We take time to build trust, follow your child’s pace, and create a space where they can feel respected rather than managed. For some families, beginning with parent coaching or caregiver sessions helps create more understanding at home and makes therapy feel less threatening to a child over time.
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Parents and caregivers are an important part of a child’s support system, and we want you to feel informed, supported, and better equipped to understand what your child may need. Children do not grow or heal in isolation, which is why we make room for the people, relationships, and routines that shape their daily life.
From the beginning, we will talk together about how parent involvement can best support care. Depending on your family’s needs, this may include parent sessions, parent coaching, family sessions, conversations about goals and general themes, or strategies that may be helpful to try between sessions.
We will also explain confidentiality and its limits clearly. Your child or teen needs room to build trust and speak openly with their therapist, while you remain meaningfully involved in the work and supported in the role you play at home.
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Yes, with your consent. A child’s wellbeing is shaped by more than what happens in therapy, which is why collaboration can be an important part of care.
When helpful, we will connect with teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, and other providers involved in your child’s life. We can also help you think through school accommodations, communication with educators, and changes that may make home or school feel more manageable.
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Yes. We offer weekday morning, afternoon and evening appointments, along with morning and afternoon appointments on weekends. Availability depends on the clinician. Let us know what times work for your family when you reach out.
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Yes. Michigan Wellbeing Therapy Clinic offers virtual ADHD and comprehensive mental health assessments, along with consultations about treatment planning, neurodivergence, giftedness, sensory needs and school support. You can book these without starting ongoing therapy, and they can complement work with an existing therapist. We do not offer comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations.
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For therapy, your child’s clinician must be licensed or otherwise authorized to provide care in the place where your child is physically located during each session. Clinicians who are licensed only in Michigan can meet with clients only while they are in Michigan, even if they are traveling temporarily.
Some coaching services may be available to families outside Michigan. If your child will be traveling or spending time in another state, please let us know before scheduling. We can clarify which services may be available and help you plan ahead.
Insurance, Fees & Access
Insurance accepted:
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, & Priority Health
HAP PPA & UnitedHeathCare Coming Soon…
Self-pay rates:
$165–$185 per 53-minute session, depending on clinician credentials.
All sessions are 100% virtual and scheduled through our secure SimplePractice telehealth portal.
Let’s build something meaningful together.