What can therapy do for your child?
Therapy can be very helpful throughout the healing process. Therapy support can help your child understand their feelings and how they talk about what has occurred.
Reassure a child that nothing is wrong with them.
Help children feel safe in their environment and learn to trust again.
Assist the child in managing feelings such as sadness, anger, guilt, and shame.
Provide an outlet for children to process their experience and reduce the chance of issues developing later in life.
Lessen a family’s worry about their child’s well-being and future.
Provide safety and prevention education, helping to reduce the risk of further abuse.
Assist in rebuilding a child’s self-esteem and self-confidence.
Help the family restore structure and stability in their life.
Intervention Services
Mental Health
Our mental health team at The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester works to safeguard children’s wellbeing, restore a family’s pre-crisis functioning, and promote healthy decisions to enhance the healing process.
Therapies and Treatments
The CACGROC provides evidence-based, trauma-focused mental health services approved by the National Children’s Alliance (NCA) and designed to meet the unique needs of the child and caregivers.
NCA-approved mental health treatment modalities for children represent a vital resource in the efforts to promote healing, resilience, and recovery in the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
Investing in accessible and culturally responsive mental health services is not only essential for individual well-being, but also contributes to building stronger, more compassionate communities where every child is valued, supported, and able to reach their full potential.
Our mental health team at The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester works to safeguard children’s wellbeing, restore a family’s pre-crisis functioning, and promote healthy decisions to enhance the healing process.
Mental Health
Intervention Services
The mental health team and family advocates identify and help secure mental health services and/or alternative funding sources to ensure that all children have access to appropriate mental health services regardless of their ability to pay.
Services from our mental health treatment providers include:
Mental Health Services
Providing access to all appropriate trauma-informed mental health assessment and treatment services for children and families.
In-person and/or tele-mental health sessions.
Trauma-specific assessment including traumatic events and abuse-related trauma symptoms.
Use of standardized measures and assessment tools initially to inform treatment, and periodically to assess progress and outcome.
Individualized evidence-supported treatment plan appropriate for the child and family.
Child, caregivers, and family engagement in treatment.
Referral to community services as needed.
Ages 0-5
Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
CPP is a relational and trauma-informed intervention designed to strengthen the parent-child relationship and promote healing in the aftermath of trauma. CPP sessions may involve play-based activities, guided discussions, and emotional processing exercises aimed at repairing attachment ruptures and building secure bonds between the child and caregiver.
Ages 2-17
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
PCIT is a common evidence-based treatment for addressing child trauma symptoms and improving the quality of parent-child interactions.
Children and their caregivers are seen together in PCIT, and families graduate when parents demonstrate mastery of skills and rate their child’s behavior as being within standard limits.
Ages 3-18
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a psychotherapeutic approach that targets distressing memories and experiences through bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, hand tapping, or auditory cues. It helps children reprocess traumatic memories, reduce emotional distress, and integrate positive beliefs about themselves and their future.
Ages 3-18
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT is an evidence-based intervention specifically designed to address the psychological impact of trauma in children and adolescents. It helps children process their experiences, manage distressing emotions, and develop coping skills.
TF-CBT typically involves individual sessions with the child and joint sessions with their caregivers to support family communication and healing.
Treatment Modalities Provided:
Mental health and therapeutic intervention are a crucial way to minimize the trauma and suffering of children and support long-term positive outcomes. The mental health team of professionals at The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester routinely communicates with multidisciplinary team members to ensure comprehensive treatment, while maintaining and protecting the client’s right to confidentiality.
Mental Health Services
Services from our mental health treatment providers include:
Providing access to all appropriate trauma-informed mental health assessment and treatment services for children and families.
In-person and/or tele-mental health sessions.
Trauma-specific assessment including traumatic events and abuse-related trauma symptoms.
Use of standardized measures and assessment tools initially to inform treatment, and periodically to assess progress and outcome.
Individualized evidence-supported treatment plan appropriate for the child and family.
Child, caregivers, and family engagement in treatment.
Referral to community services as needed.
The mental health team and family advocates identify and help secure mental health services and/or alternative funding sources to ensure that all children have access to appropriate mental health services regardless of their ability to pay.
