Brandon Gimbel:

One thing that I find myself telling my patients regularly is that the first necessary step to any treatment is awareness. And often in the case of adults, it's self-awareness. What is going on? What is the problem? What is causing me pain? What you're describing is exactly that. It is helping parents, often, identify what is causing their kids, and them as part of the family unit, pain.

Lisa Novak:

Yes, it is the experience that parents, generally speaking, have clarity at the end of it, of "oh, that's what's been going on." Sometimes it's very affirming and validating, like, "yep, that's what we've suspected all along." And sometimes the parents really weren't sure or there was something surprising but it leaves them feeling "well, this explains all the things that we've been seeing," or "this explains at least some of what we've been seeing, and now we have that direction." We're really just the beginning of that journey so that they can figure out what is next by way of actually supporting those needs? And at our practice, we don't do any of that intervention ourselves. We're not tutors or therapists, psychiatrists. We don't do any ongoing intervention, but we're making sure to connect the families with all of the people and places and things that they need. And one of the places that they are often needing more support is at school. And that is something we're happy to help with is going with the family to a school meeting to talk to the school team about what we have found and how that lines up with what they've noticed about the student in the classroom and potentially formalize a plan, an IEP, a 504 plan, whatever is needed to make sure that the student's getting their needs met at school.