Benjamin McCormack LCSW, RPT: New Heights LCSW PLLC

02/09/2026

Looking for therapy services for your child struggling with ADHD, anxiety, trauma, or attachment challenges?
Are you looking for guidance as a parent to help navigate these concerns?

🌟 Now Accepting New Clients! 🌟

I currently have openings for therapy services for children ages 4–10. As a male therapist, I provide play therapy–focused treatment and specialize in working with children experiencing ADHD, anxiety, trauma, and attachment challenges.

If you’re a parent looking for support—or know a family who may benefit—I’d be happy to connect.

👉 For more information or to get in touch:
www.newheightslcswpllc.com

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10/19/2025

Parents and caregivers, I know how challenging it can be to navigate big baffling behaviors. If you've ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure how to respond in a way that helps your child, you're not alone.

That's why I'm excited to introduce Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors: A course for Parents-designed by Robyn Gobbel. This course is built to help you understand, connect, and respond in ways that support both your child and yourself. This course is tailored to kids of ANY age!

This course is built on neuroscience, connection, and real-life strategies to help you:
✅ Understand why baffling behaviors happen
✅Respond in ways that create safety and connection
✅ Shift from feeling stuck to feeling confident

POSSILBILITY OF BE PAID FOR BY INSURANCE!

ANYONE in New York State can sign up for the course.

For more information, or to sign up, visit www.neweightslcswpllc.com

09/17/2025

Play therapy is such an important therapeutic modality for kids. And often gets judged and overlooked.

So why is playing so important anyway? For many different reasons.

Play is safe
Play is a universal language
Play helps us express feelings and emotions. Some we are aware of, some we are not.
Play does not require high cognitive skills
Play allows child to show all parts of themselves.

Play therpay is perfect for kids who have adhd, trauma, anxiety, depression.

09/15/2025

Regulation is a term that is said a lot but loses its meaning at times. Regulation can mean balance. When it comes to balance, it means balancing the energy inside of us.

It’s like a thermostat at home. Not too hot and not too cold. Just keeping it at that temperature. Otherwise, we might have some behaviors that emerge showing us that the temperature is off.

It’s the energy of our nervous system trying to keep its balance based on the level of safety it is sensing. This does not mean you have to be calm! You can be angry and regulated.

Let’s think of kids and school. School can be very dysregulating even if kids don’t say it is. They may be perfect in school, and then come home and be all over the place or need to chill for a while. They are trying to rebalance themselves from the events or stress from school.

Think of your own life where you go somewhere that makes you feel unbalanced and need to home and do nothing for a while. Your own system needs to be rebalanced. Our kids need that too. They just don’t always know how to say it. But their behaviors do!

08/06/2025

Continuing with last months conversation around why coping skills don’t always work, let’s look into part 2 and how co-regulation has a huge impact on coping skills being effective for both kids and adults

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Facts and thoughts around play, therapy for kids and parenting. Focus around parents of kids who have ADHD, anxiety, trauma, depression, or overall problems with emotional regulation

07/26/2025

🎉 Exciting update!🎉

Parents and caregivers, I know how challenging it can be to navigate big baffling behaviors. If you've ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure how to respond in a way that helps your child, you're not alone.

That's why I'm excited to introduce Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors: A course for Parents-designed by Robyn Gobbel, author of the bestselling book by the same name, which has sold over 30,000 copies. This course is built to help you understand, connect, and respond in ways that support both your child and yourself. This course is tailored to kids of ANY age!

This course is built on neuroscience, connection, and real-life strategies to help you:

✅ Understand why baffling behaviors happen

✅Respond in ways that create safety and connection

✅ Shift from feeling stuck to feeling confident

If you are interested in joining a future group, great news!

Instead of setting a fixed date, enrollment is now on a rolling basis! I'm gathering interest first. Once I have a group of interested parents and caregivers for a certain time/day, the group will begin. You can view a variety of different time frame options on the interest form. ANYONE in New York State is able to take this course.

If you are outside of NYS and are interested, please visit https://robyngobbel.com/immersionprogramgraduate/ to find someone in your state

Information about the event: https://www.newheightslcswpllc.com/parent-group

Interest Form (with time frame options): https://form.jotform.com/252038937260054

For more information about Robyn Gobbel and her work, please visit https://robyngobbel.com/

Looking forward to connecting at a time that works best☺️

06/20/2025

Two new things!

1) I’ve accepted another insurance! I am now able to accept cdphp, mvp, AND optum/united health care 🎉

2) I created a flyer around information about my practice! See below for morere details and feel free to share!

06/12/2025

Ever wonder why coping skills don't always work? We tell kids to use them and they don't, or say they don't remember, or they just can't. That is what my latest blog post is all about. Come find out why the brain struggles so much and be more curious on how to go about introducing them to kids.

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Facts and thoughts around play, therapy for kids and parenting. Focus around parents of kids who have ADHD, anxiety, trauma, depression, or overall problems with emotional regulation

06/02/2025

Somehow I managed to stay on schedule and wrote another blog post! This one is around thoughts of not listening and the concept of connection. Here’s my insight on why these things may go together and also how it relates to play therpay services.

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There Is currently a slot or two open for services in June if there is anyone looking for play therpay services/parent coaching services for kids 10 and younger. Best way to refer/get in touch is through the contact section of the website.

Facts and thoughts around play, therapy for kids and parenting

05/17/2025

Good news! I will have spots open in June for either a kid under 10 or a parent needing some parent coaching.

Just a reminder that I specialize in working with kids who have trauma, sensory processing issues, adhd, anxiety, and depression Cdphp and mvp accepted as well as private pay/out of network benefits. If you know anyone please feel free to send them my way! The best way is through the contact section of my website. Thanks!

Private practice providing outpatient therapy services to children and families 10 years of age and younger with a focus on play therapy modality. Parent coaching services for help parent with children's overwhelming and confusing behaviors.