Services

Clinical Services

Initial Diagnostic Assessment

Your first two sessions are used to understand you and your therapy goals. Dr. Spetter will share her impressions of what the problem may be, whether a diagnosis may help you to understand the situation and or guide our work together. After this, you will be offered an initial treatment plan.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a collaboration between the therapist and the patient, working together to understand challenges you may be facing, be it mood, behavior, or coping with difficult life events. In most cases, treatment will be based on Evidence Based Therapy (Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Solutions Based Therapy) but often incorporates aspects of many other approaches.

Clinical Services include

  • Individual Therapy

    Dr. Spetter sees children, adolescents, and adults for individual therapy in her Arlington office. In some cases, therapy can also be conducted virtually although typically, initial visits will be in person.

  • Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

    If your child is the patient, you may be included in all or part of some visits or there may be separate parent meetings, depending on the age of the child. For teens, most sessions are individual but parents are included as appropriate.

  • Family Therapy

    In family therapy, the goal is to help a family operate more smoothly so you can have more fun together. Family therapy includes work on communication, psychoeducation about child development, skill building, and improving each member’s ability to support one another.

  • Coaching

    Dr. Spetter also offers Parent Coaching, Date Coaching and Divorce Coaching.

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Family Forensic Services

The Family and Probate Court appoints Psychologists and other mental health professionals to work with families involved in legal disputes around parenting and child custody. Dr. Spetter works with families involved in the Family and Probate Court in several different ways.

Child Custody Evaluations

Child Custody Evaluations are available when Dr. Spetter is appointed as a Guardian Ad Litem. In this role, Dr. Spetter will observe and interview family members, review records, and speak with family, friends, and other professionals in order to report back to the Court, and make recommendations for the Best Interests of the Child(ren).

Family Therapy for Resist Refuse Dynamics

Sometimes in families in which parents maintain separate households, a child may resist spending time with one parent.  A family may seek, or a judge may order, “Reunification Therapy” but a better way to understand these situations is as Parent Child Contact Problems, recognizing that each person plays a role in creating the situation, and each person plays a role in improving the child(ren)’s relationship with their parents. It is mandatory that both the favored, and the out of favor parent participate for this kind of therapy to be helpful.

Dr. Spetter is also frequently hired as an Expert Witness in Family and Juvenile Court matters including Parent Child Attachment and Parent Child issues related to Divorce.

Everyone is entitled to a Good Faith Estimate.