Thomas Packard

I assume that each family and child that I work with is unique, and I take an individualized approach to helping each determine their needs and goals. I begin with the assumption that you are the best judge of what you and your child need. My job is to put my education and technical knowledge together with your knowledge of your child and family to develop a plan to address your goals. The work I do as a pediatric psychologist is based in what is called cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on understanding and changing the connections between our thoughts and our actions. Most of the problems I encounter in my work with families are based on accidental patterns of learning, which produce habits that, while they may be hard to change, can be altered by first understanding them, and then taking specific, targeted actions to do things a different way.