A child’s needs can show up differently across home, school, relationships, and everyday life. My work considers the child within all of those environments.
Support for emotional, behavioral, developmental, and mental health needs through developmentally appropriate therapy.
Practical support for understanding behavior, strengthening relationships, and responding more effectively to your child's individual needs.
Clinical and educational advocacy for families navigating IEPs, 504 Plans, accommodations, evaluations, meetings, and school-related concerns.
Clinical supervision and consultation focused on strengthening clinical judgment, practical skills, ethical practice, and professional development.
I’m Renee Bracey, LMHC, a child and family therapist, educational advocate, clinical supervisor, and graduate counseling educator with more than 20 years of experience supporting children and families.
My work focuses particularly on children and adolescents whose emotional, behavioral, developmental, or mental health needs affect how they function at home, at school, or in relationships.
Across therapy, parent support, educational advocacy, and clinical supervision, my approach is practical, collaborative, developmentally informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in evidence-based practice.
Clinical care and recommendations informed by established research and evidence-based treatment approaches.
Children are not small adults. Support should reflect their age, development, communication, and individual needs.
Understanding differences in attention, regulation, communication, sensory processing, and executive functioning without reducing a child to a diagnosis.
Meaningful progress often involves the adults and systems surrounding a child—not only what happens in the therapy room.
Behavior is often the part adults see first. Understanding what is driving it helps us determine what a child actually needs.
My clinical work focuses particularly on children and adolescents experiencing:
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A child who refuses, shuts down, melts down, avoids, argues, or struggles to meet expectations is communicating something—even when that communication is difficult for the adults around them to understand.
Effective support requires us to ask more than:
“How do we stop this behavior?”
We also need to ask:
What is making this difficult? What skill, support, accommodation, or change might help this child be more successful?
Although my roles may look different, they are connected by the same goal: helping adults better understand and respond to the needs of children.
Helping children understand themselves, develop skills, communicate their needs, and navigate difficult experiences.
Helping families and educational teams connect mental health and developmental needs to meaningful educational access and support.
Helping developing clinicians move beyond knowing counseling theory to understanding how to think and practice clinically.
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Learn more about therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults and how to get started through Family Care Counseling Associates.
Learn more about educational advocacy, IEP and 504 support, school meetings, and consultation.
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888-2002-234
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