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Child Therapy for Big Emotions
& Challenging Behaviors

About Our Practice

 

At Hamilton Family Counseling, we specialize in therapy for children ages 1-12 with big emotions and challenging behaviors. Let’s work together to transform your child’s challenges into triumphs and increase the peace and connection in your home.

 
 
 

Foster and adoptive families can especially benefit.
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative.

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Our Director, DC Hamilton, LMFT, is a certified PCIT International therapist, certified by UC Davis Children’s Hospital as a trainer in the Parent-Child Care protocol, and is currently co-developing a new protocol with and for physicians.
(CA Lic. No. 101375; OR Lic. No. T2168)

 

Evidenced Based Treatment

One of the main treatments we provide is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), which many experts consider to be the gold standard in treating childhood disruptive behaviors as hundreds of studies over 40 years have shown PCIT to be nurturing and effective.

 
 

Parent-Child Care Protocol

We also provide Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE), developed at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. PC-CARE can be completed in 6 treatment sessions, has been shown by research to have a greater rate of improvement than PCIT in that time period, and was created to be flexible and tailored to each family’s strengths and values.

 
This graph demonstrates how behavioral progress is tracked and graphed weekly and is not a guarantee of a child’s progress.

This graph illustrates typical, weekly progress at our clinic in reducing challenging behaviors; each child’s results will vary.

Our Specialties

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    Big Emotions & Challenging Behaviors

    Treatment options for children ages 1-12.

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    Child Anxiety

    Help for children with worries, fears, avoidance, phobias, and irritability.

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    Social Emotional Delay

    Supporting social emotional development and self regulation, ages 1-12.

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    ADHD

    For disruptive behaviors arising from inattention and hyperactivity.

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    Autism & Functional Diversity

    Improving bonding, development, and behaviors, ages 1-12.

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All Treatment Options

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Locations & Home Treatment Options

We offer in-person as well as a hybrid online option. In both cases, the child always receives in-person intervention directly from their parent while the therapist watches through a laptop and coaches the parent in the play and behavior therapy skills through an earpiece.

With the hybrid and home treatment model, the therapist remains at the office, but the family receives real-time support from the comfort of their own home where behaviors are usually the most difficult. Many families prefer online therapy because it saves time and money on driving and child care for siblings during appointments.

Hybrid services are available throughout California & Oregon. In-person appointments are available in our Claremont office. See map below.

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Additional Options

Hamilton Family Counseling also offers Parent Only Strategy Sessions where parents can ask questions and get on the same page with quick, practical parenting solutions that both parents agree on.

And our Online Parenting Bootcamp teaches the principles of PCIT and PC-CARE in a support group atmosphere from the comfort of your home.

Contact Us
 

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Nationwide
Professional consultation, business development services, and resource finding are available nationwide. See the Professionals page for more.

In-Person Sessions
We offer in-person services at our office in Claremont. The waitlist for in-person treatment is 4 months for weekday appointments and 6 months for weekend appointments.

Hybrid Home Treatment Sessions
We also have availability in 1-3 weeks for a hybrid and home treatment in which the child always receives in-person intervention directly from their parent. Weekend and evening appointments are available throughout California and Oregon.

Online Sessions
We also have immediate openings for online sessions in parent-only and group formats. These sessions are available throughout Oregon and California. Weekend and evening appointments are available.

Land Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we work, live, and practice is the traditional unceded territory of the Tongva, Gabrieleño, and Kizh Nation. We respect and are grateful to the Tongva people who still consider themselves the caretakers of this land. It is through their examples that we are reminded of our greater responsibility to take care of the earth and to take care of each other. Learn more about whose land you occupy at native-land.ca.