Practice
Dr. Underwood specializes in working with children and adolescents. In this context, parents are vital members of the treatment team. Thus, parent consultations may be scheduled to discuss treatment issues and progress in addition to ongoing therapy for your child.
Dr. Underwood also works with adults when she believes her expertise and treatment modalities are a good match for their needs.
Collaboration and active participation are important components of therapy. With children, Dr. Underwood has found that Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is very useful. It emphasizes how thoughts and behaviors impact feelings. It teaches skills for managing problems. Research consistently supports CBT as the most effective intervention for a variety of disorders and problems.
With adults, Dr. Underwood’s approach may be more eclectic. She works closely with clients to create individualized treatment plans that may encompass tenets from CBT, interpersonal therapy, insight-oriented therapy, as well as others.
Dr. Underwood’s areas of concentration include:
- Anxiety Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Separation Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Social Anxiety
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Depression
- Emotional and behavioral dysregulation
- Bipolar Disorder
- ADHD
- Asperger’s Syndrome
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