Quite often the demands of being back in a structured setting like school create challenges for both children and their parents. At BOOST, they offer offer psychotherapy and educational services to families in lower Fairfield County and provide whatever is needed to optimize success. By offering individual psychotherapy, family and group therapy, tutorial, educational workshops, college prep, executive function coaching, and educational/psychological testing all in one space, families will feel supported and comfortable in whatever they need.
What is BOOST?
Named for Our Core Services:
- B – Bolstering cognitive, affective and behavioral processes
- O - Optimizing an individual’s potential to learn and thrive
- O - Organizing family and community support systems
- S - Solidifying social and personal skill sets
- T - Training educators, parents, and other professionals
Services offered:
- Individual counseling
- Family counseling
- Testing and Evaluation
- Group support –Kids Boost! Groups
- Classroom observations and consultation
- Crisis intervention
- School staff trainings/workshops
- Academic Tutorial
- Executive Function coaching
- SAT/ACT Preparation
- College Preparation & Essay Support
- Educational Workshops
Boost! is here to support all family members, including adults. Our Boost! therapists are trained to treat adults through individual, family and group counseling as well.
Kids BOOST! Social Skills Groups
This hands-on program is designed to help children acquire and practice vital social, emotional and communication skills and apply them to real-life situations. Students are divided into small groups and placed according to the following criteria at the therapist’s discretion.
From here, children will work closely with their therapist to target specified social skills, communication techniques, and strategies for expression. Our goal is to help your children acquire greater fluency in their social repertoire.
- Sharing/Turn-taking
- Compromise
- Problem-solving
- Initiating and concluding conversation
- Establishing and maintaining healthy friendships
- Respectful, active listening
- Addressing a group
- Expressing yourself appropriately
- Managing frustration and anger
- Coping with adverse group dynamics
GROUP CURRICULA
These tailored programs utilize concrete affective and cognitive-behavioral techniques designed to enhance social skills in an organic way.
They include:
- Role-plays
- Establishing goals and rules
- Small group discussion
- Affective identification (mirror work)
- Written assignments
- Play development, rehearsal, and filming
- Video presentation
- Therapeutic games
- Peer feedback and review
Contact a therapist at Boost! to set up an initial intake or to discuss our services further call us at 203-557-8444 or check out our website.
