NOW ACCEPTING APPOINTMENTS VIA TELEHEALTH
NOW ACCEPTING APPOINTMENTS VIA TELEHEALTH
Thank you for your interest in Houston Play Therapy. Houston Play Therapy is a collaborative private practice created by Danielle Tschirhart, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S with the idea of bringing together talented therapists of differing specialites to offer individual counseling, school assistance, and supportive parent training to enhance development of your child or adolescent’s well-being.
No child is too young to begin receiving the help they need and early intervention is the best way to help children overcome the struggles they face. Houston Play Therapy considers each child an individual and utilizes the strengths of each family to help them attain healthy goals.
Play is the natural language of young children. Play therapy is used as a means to provide a safe environment for children to manage stress, learn effective coping strategies, and maintain pro-social relationships.
Play therapy emphasizes building and maintaining a parent-child relationship that promotes communication, intimacy, and self-esteem. Houston Play Therapy gives guidance and tools to aid in parenting issues. Parents can also receive one-on-one instruction in their play interactions with their child.
On-site visits to observe a child in their school or daycare environment. Recommendations can then be made to aid and support the teacher/student relationship with the goal of the student becoming more successful in their school or daycare. Consultations with teachers and program directors can also be arranged.
Danielle Tschirhart, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S provides supervised training to both Licensed Professional Counselor Interns and Registered Play Therapist Candidates who are interested in work with children and families.
Dr. Christina Navarro holds advanced degrees in Counseling, Educational Leadership, and Training and Development. She has worked with adolescents for twenty five years in a variety of settings and roles such as: special needs advocate, parent / teacher educator, high school teacher, director of a therapeutic school for adolescents, trauma specialist, and mental health counselor. As a licensed professional therapist, she brings a wealth of knowledge of both private and public school settings in the Houston area, a deep understanding of the teen years, and parenting.
Dr. Christina primarily works with high school and transitional age adolescents who are having difficulties due to depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, social pressures, ADHD, or other challenges with transitions/adjustments. Additionally, she is an adoption competent specialist who works with youth and families with regard to family formation, adolescent adoptee identity formation, and trauma. She has particular interests in helping parents overcome their personal childhood developmental histories which impede parenting success. In therapy. Dr. Christina primarily utilizes the techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She believes that when working with adolescents, a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach is often needed to best serve the client.