Therapist recommendation for older sibling of aggressive child
I have two children. My younger child has anxiety and Aspberger's, and can be aggressive, including toward their older sibling.
My older child, age 10, is kind, lovely, sad about getting hit by their younger sibling, and won't talk to me about it....or anything these days.
I'm looking for a child therapist who can break through to this "in-between" pre-teen age....not quite ready for talk therapy but on the older end of play therapy....
Proximity to Berkeley/Oakland is preferred.
Thank you.
Oct 17, 2021
Parent Replies
Whitney Pepper specializes in siblings of children with disabilities and has been so helpful to us. She's currently in SoCal but doing great work via Zoom. whitney.pepper.therapy [at] gmail.com
Sibshops put on by Social Learning Works in Marin was a great help to our family. Similar situation. Feel free to use my name with Allie -- Andrea DeRochi
This sounds so hard!
may I suggest Family Therapy instead of individual counseling? At 10years old, your child might feel penalized (or blamed) if they have to start individual counseling, even though this is clearly not your intent.
we have had a great experience in working through our family dynamics (older son with ASD, much younger sibling bearing brunt of atypical sibling relationship/behavior) with Sheri Glucoft-Wong in Berkeley.
feel free to contact me individually if you want.
best wishes.