Individual + Family Counseling

Dr. Kimberley Palmiotto offers compassionate counseling for individual children, teens and young adults, as well as parents and families. Her services include the following:

Individual Counseling

Dr. Palmiotto provides individual counseling right here at Parker Place for children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 3-21), with a positive and skills-focused approach. If your child is exhibiting a change in mood, behavior, or self-esteem, it can make you feel helpless as a parent. Counseling, along with parental support, can help your child navigate feelings of sadness or anxiety and learn coping skills that will serve them for years to come. Even if your child just needs some guidance on managing social situations with their peers, meeting with Dr. Palmiotto can help.

Using expressive therapies such as art, music, dance and play in her counseling sessions, Dr. Palmiotto is able to introduce more abstract concepts related to feelings, and help kids to apply them as they fine-tune their social skills, develop self-management skills, and improve their interpersonal relationships.

ADHD Counseling

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) is a common term that many of us know; however, the condition itself can make the home environment stressful for the child or teen with ADHD, as well as for the family who lives with them. Dr. Palmiotto offers strategies and support to help the whole family. By coaching kids to identify and understand their own gifts and challenges, as well as guiding parents to understand their children’s unique needs, Dr. Palmiotto teaches families how to decrease stress in their home and build stronger, happier relationships.

Counseling for Parents and Families

Families often find that using a parenting coach or therapist to help them understand and manage the different issues that arise with a developing child is helpful in maintaining a peaceful environment at home.  Whether your child is a toddler that is learning to identify and manage their emotions, or a teen experiencing the ups and downs of puberty, their current developmental cycle brings unique challenges as well as opportunities for growth.

With a positive psychology approach rooted in strengths-based parenting, Dr. Palmiotto offers compassionate counseling for parents and whole families seeking to improve their communication and overcome obstacles together.

Coaching for Executive Functioning Skills

Executive functioning skills are essential in every aspect of our lives, both as children and as adults. Without these skills, we struggle at home, at work, in school, and in social relationships.

While executive functioning skills usually develop in childhood and the teenage years, many kids find that they struggle with these skills more than their peers. These struggles may continue well into adulthood. Executive functioning is especially challenging for virtually everyone with ADHD, and also for many with certain learning disorders.

Dr. Kimberley Palmiotto’s “Becoming Your Own Executive” customized coaching program helps kids to address and improve their executive functioning skills. In an initial meeting with the child and their parents, current executive functioning strengths and weaknesses are assessed. A custom plan is then created to help the child learn to manage key skills, including:

• Time management

• Organization

• Attention

• Self-monitoring

…and many more! Subsequent weekly individual counseling sessions will introduce new skills and provide the child an opportunity to practice these skills, as Dr. Palmiotto monitors their ongoing progress.

Counseling Rates

All individual and family counseling is priced at $150 per session, with sessions generally ranging from 45-60 minutes. For ongoing therapy, Dr. Palmiotto will suggest a treatment plan to address your child’s or family’s specific needs and objectives.

Please note: as of April 2021, Dr. Palmiotto’s schedule is filled; however, we are keeping a waiting list of families who are interested in scheduling an appointment when it becomes available! To be added to the waiting list, or if you have questions, please contact us!