Practice Name:Next Place Therapy
Services Provided: At Next Place Therapy, our skilled therapists provide a kind, understanding, non-judgmental approach in working with you to reach your best results. Our client focus are children (ages 2-16) and families, teens. We offer ongoing groups for children, adolescents and preteens, and adults, as well as groups for parent support, adult adoptees, social skills and skill based training, and clinical supervision for licensure and Play Therapy.
Sabra Starnes is trained to support adoptive and foster families on the following areas
- Adoption, foster care, and kinship care
- Parenting Support and Coaching
- Blended families
- Sibling challenges
- Trauma
- Attachment barriers and difficulties
- Loss and Grief
- Adolescence challenges
- Search and reunion
- Adult Adoptees
Sabra Starnes is trained in the following treatment modalities to work with families.
- Dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused therapy developed by Drs. Daniel Hughes and Arthur Becker-Weidman. It is an evidence-based treatment for complex trauma, attachment issues and challenges. It is often used to treat children in foster care and adoptive families, especially those who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect. DDP is a family-focused approach to therapy that incorporates well-researched principles such as a focus on relationships, attunement, intersubjectivity, and sensitive responsiveness.
- Theraplay is an approach to child and family therapy that aims to address behavioral, emotional, or developmental issues and improve the parent-child relationship through play and healthy interaction. Typically, this approach is used in treatment with children up to age 12. However, Theraplay techniques may be combined with other modalities and can be adapted for use with teenagers and adults seeking therapy for these same concerns.
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is an evidence-based parenting and intervention model developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. TBRI® has been built on a solid foundation of neuropsychological theory and research, tempered by humanitarian principles. It is a family-based intervention, designed for children who have experienced relationship-based traumas such as institutionalization, multiple foster placements, maltreatment, abuse, and/or neglect.
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative therapy originally developed by Francine Shapiro to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. When a traumatic event occurs or something happens that is perceived as traumatic, the associated memories may become stored in the brain and nervous system in a maladaptive way—frozen rather than processed. Current reactions are fueled by negative beliefs stemming from events that occurred in the past. People become stuck. In some cases, the trauma that happened years ago continues to feel like it’s happening in the present.