Megan Niehauser (she/her/hers)

I am a Registered Play Therapist as well as a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist. I work with children and adolescents to foster and maintain healthy social and emotional development. I have experience working with anxiety, behavioral and/or emotional concerns, attention difficulties, current and/or past trauma, and more. I use an integrative approach by focusing on the clients’ strengths, needs, and interests.

I work with children, adolescents, young adults, and parents to process anxiety. I, again, use a brain and nervous system lens to better understand anxiety and its purpose. For example, when we have anxiety, our body is doing exactly what it was designed to do, keep us safe! We are then able to process times in which our anxiety is useful and times our alarm is going off when it does not need to be. We can pair this with some Cognitive Behavioral Strategies and Mindfulness.

I have been working with children and their families since I began my career as a mental health therapist in 2018. Currently, I am in Robyn Gobbel's Immersion program which focuses on the science of relationships. I take a brain and nervous system approach to understanding big feelings and big behaviors. This allows us to support ourselves as well as our child. I weave in bits of brain and nervous system science into our parent sessions along with lots of compassion and support.

I am a Registered Play Therapist™ and Certified Synergetic Play Therapist. Synergetic Play Therapy is a research-informed model of play therapy combining the therapeutic powers of play with nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, and more. I utilize directive and non-directive play therapy activities to support your child. I also successfully completed The Baffling Behavior Training Institute’s Immersion Program for Professionals, a professional training program developed

I am currently in Robyn Gobbel's Immersion Program. This program allows me to offer parent coaching through the lens of relational neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. We use a lot of brain and nervous system science to understand our big feelings and big behaviors as well as get curious about our child's big feelings and big behaviors as well as their potential underlying needs.

I use the same brain and nervous system science lens to understand the science of anxiety. By understanding the reason for anxiety, we are able to have compassion for this part of ourselves. We can then practice regulation skills, such as deep breathing and mindfulness to help manage these symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can also be utilized to challenge our thinking patterns and unhelpful thoughts.

I am a Registered Play Therapist™ and Certified Synergetic Play Therapist. I utilize directive and non-directive play therapy interventions and techniques to help support your child. I have experience working with anxiety, behavioral and/or emotional concerns, attention difficulties, current and/or past trauma, and more. I help your child understand brain and nervous system science in an age-appropriate way and also translate all of this to you when we meet for monthly parent sessions.

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