Services
The
Infant-Parent Institute is best known for clinical work with infants and
their families. Our services include:
| • | Supporting families in crisis as well as families who are working with long-term developmental or clinical problems with their growing children. |
| • | Providing psychotherapy to families for whom the process of attachment with their baby has been difficult. |
| • | Assessing babies and toddlers for problems ranging from feeding and sleeping disruptions to affective and growth problems. |
| • | Providing training and consultation to those serving children in various capacities: Child Care Center and Family Providers, Educators, Parents, Mentors & Volunteers. |
| • | Parent Support and Guidance Groups and Individual Parent Coaching. |
| • | Helping families who are divorcing, who are part of the foster care system, who are adopting or who are otherwise struggling to make decisions that are in the best interests of their children. |
Our interest in attachment and early social experience has also led us into psychotherapeutic work with older children and grown-ups. It is not uncommon for us to help a forty-year-old adoptee understand newly-discovered depression rooting from early life experiences or to counsel a new college student trying to understand why separation from home has catapulted her into unexpected sorrow or rage.
Finally, we are actively involved with divorce/custody mediation. The Institute supports parents who want to reduce the hurt to their children by learning to be civil with each other. We also assist with court-ordered family assessments, child protection matters and foster care cases where risk factors to the child must be examined.
Profesional Staff
The following associates can be found working with clients on a daily
basis:
Michael Trout, Director of the Institute
Martin Srajek, Ph.D., LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), is a
psychotherapist in private practice and a clinical associate at The Infant-Parent
Institute. Aside from his clinical practice where he sees a broad spectrum
of clients, his work focuses on men and boys in their various cultural
contexts and roles. He has particularly focused on fathers, their roles
in the family, their experiences during pregnancy, their ability to nurture
their children and their own developmental processes as they go through
fatherhood. Dr. Srajek’s clinical approach is systemic, i.e., it
is guided by an overall belief in the connectedness and meaningfulness
of all things and people to each other
Jim Linder, M.S. Ed, trains and provides support for parents, child care workers, teachers, mentors and those working with youth in any capacity. He is a nationally certified trainer for the Positive Discipline Association and is also a Court Approved Family Mediator.
To discuss a possible referral, contact:
Michael Trout, Director, mtrout@infant-parent.com
Dr. Martin Srajek, srajek@infant-parent.com
Jim Linder, M.S. Ed, jlinder@infant-parent.com
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