Our Story

Arbor Cove Therapy, LLC, was established in 2016 out of a desire to provide mental health care to individuals and families impacted by complex developmental trauma as well as often unrecognized ambiguous losses and disenfranchised grief. We initially almost exclusively focused on the needs of people involved in foster care and adoption - first parents, adoptees, adoptive families, and child welfare professisonals - as we heard from them that the mental health impacts of this experience were frequently either pathologized or dismissed as relevant to their mental health by their surrounding communities and systems.

 

Our work with the adults parenting and caring for the children who were our initial primary clients affirmed the truth that we're all living life with wounded parts of ourselves needing experiences of being seen, safe, soothed, and secure in the deepest places of our hearts (Siegel and Bryson, 2020) so we can offer that to others more fully. Out of this awareness, we expanded to work as much with adults, particularly women, as with children and teens. We also developed a wider range of services to all of our clients, addressing other forms of trauma, as well as anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, phobias, life changes and transitions, parenting difficulties, spiritual struggles and disillusionment, childhood behavioral and emotional dysregulation, seasons of professional or caregiving burnout, and family of origin conflicts.​ In 2018, when Dr. Lee Anne Dickerson joined the practice, we also began offering psychological and psychoeducational testing for children and adolescents. 

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Each of our clinicians has individual interests and areas of expertise and training, but we share a core belief that psychological and emotional wounds that occur in relationship can then only be healed in relationship, and therefore approach our work from a relational, attachment-informed lens rooted in interpersonal neurobiology. 

 

We also utilize a holistic approach that recognizes body, mind, soul, and spirit are intertwined and must be understood from the client's perspective and integrated into the healing process. As a result, we utilize cognitive, somatic, relational, and expressive modalities in our work. We especially love to incorporate play and creativity into therapy and view our clients as the primary drivers of the goals and pace of the work. 

 

Our mission is to offer a compassionate space for those feeling isolated in their pain, providing a supportive atmosphere of healing and self-discovery. We envision a future where clients confidently navigate challenges and embrace the possibilities ahead of them with optimism and clarity.​​

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