Flora Lai MS, LPC, RPT, EMDR Trained

Your Child Is Struggling — and You're Not Sure How to Help When your child is acting out, withdrawing, or carrying anxiety that feels too big for their small body, it’s heartbreaking. You want to help, but you’re not sure what they need. Or maybe you’re an adult carrying wounds from the past that keep affecting your present. You don’t have to figure this out alone. How I Help Play Therapy (Registered Play Therapist™): Children communicate through play — it’s their natural language. I use this to help kids express emotions they can’t yet put into words, build self-esteem, and develop healthy coping skills in a safe, non-judgmental space. Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): Go beyond ‘parenting tactics’ and discover the heart of your child. This approach turns everyday moments into opportunities for deep connection, giving you a proven 10-week roadmap to dissolve conflict and become the steady, confident ‘anchor’ your family needs. Adlerian Therapy: This is to help clients better understand themselves, their relationships, and the patterns that may be keeping them stuck. Together, we explore how family-of-origin experiences, early relationships, and life experiences shape current emotions, beliefs, and interactions with others. It focuses on building insight, strengthening coping skills, and helping clients move closer toward their goals. I also support clients in finding healthier ways to relate to themselves and their family members, recognizing that healthy relationships can look different for each person and family system. EMDR Therapy: I use this to help clients of all ages process trauma and distressing experiences that feel “stuck.” EMDR allows the brain to reprocess painful memories, so they lose their grip on daily life.