Coaching Your Child’s Emotions
Emotional intelligence is an important part of your child’s development and can impact how well they do socially and academically. Parents play a vital
Dr. Leslie Ho is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with school-aged children, adolescents, and adults. Her therapeutic style emphasizes evidence-based treatment that is compassionate, strengths-based, and culturally responsive. Using trauma-informed therapy approaches, she aims to make therapy a space of safety, stability, and empowerment. Dr. Ho works individually with children, adolescents, and adults for concerns relating to depression, anxiety, phobias, OCD, neurodiversity (e.g., ADHD, Autism), trauma, and grief. She also provides support in navigating challenging life transitions (e.g., starting a new job, moving to college, starting graduate school) and stress management for issues such as academic performance, college applications, high stakes testing (e.g., SAT, MCAT, NCLEX, bar exam, EPPP), perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and work burnout. She has experience supporting people who are experiencing emotional difficulties and stress relating to medical conditions/diagnoses and managing medical treatments (e.g., autoimmune disorders, cancer) and caretaker stress. She also works with parents to implement strategies for managing children’s emotional and behavioral needs, especially those relating to ADHD and Autism. Her goal is to help people build mental and emotional resilience by increasing mindfulness and present-focused awareness, strengthening emotional and behavioral self-regulation strategies, and enhancing problem solving and communication skills. She hopes to support people in thriving as confident and self-attuned individuals.
Dr. Ho specializes in cognitive behaviorally-based therapies that help people better understand the how’s and why’s of their emotions, behaviors, and thinking patterns and practice effective ways of coping with life challenges. She has extensive experience working directly with children and adolescents to help them learn about emotions and practice more helpful strategies to respond to big feelings, in addition to providing parent coaching on how to respond effectively to big feelings and problem behaviors. She incorporates mindfulness, self-compassion, and social-emotional learning based on client needs. Examples of specific therapies that Dr. Ho provides: CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), TF-CBT (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), and PMT (Parent Management Training).
In addition to therapy services, Dr. Ho also provides psychological assessments for concerns about learning disorders and neurodevelopmental differences such as ADHD and Autism. These assessments commonly address adaptive functioning, academic performance, intelligence, memory, attention, and executive-functioning. Through assessment and individualized recommendations, she aims to help parents better understand and support their children’s unique needs.
Leslie Ho, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her training emphasized scientific research in addition to evidence-based therapy and assessment. Her graduate research focused on social-emotional learning interventions and the development of emotion regulation and emotion knowledge, an emphasis that she continues in therapy by supporting clients in developing emotion learning and social-emotional problem-solving strategies. She completed internship and fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where she received further specialization in trauma and grief-informed treatment. She has worked in community outpatient, hospital, and school-based settings and has extensive experience consulting with school and medical professionals to support comprehensive care. At Mind Study Center, Dr. Ho provides evidence-based and compassionate individualized care to children, adolescents, and adults for concerns relating to depression, anxiety, OCD, phobias, trauma exposure, grief, life transitions, and chronic stress. She uses a biopsychosocial lens that views mental health as a core aspect of whole-body health and takes into account the biological, psychological, and social aspects that influence mental and physical health. She is committed to supporting people in building resilience and using their unique differences to thrive.
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