Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy

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Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy

In life no situation is the same and at Nurturing Connections I offer a variety of individual, couple, family & group services to support you and your family:

10/18/2025

Halloween can be fun — but it can also be triggering for those who have experienced trauma. Here are some reminders to help make space for everyone to enjoy the season!!

09/30/2025

So excited to share another group opportunity with you all!!
🌪️ CALM IN THE STORM: A Therapeutic Parent Support Group 🌪️
Are you parenting a child with BIG feelings and BIG behaviors? You don’t have to do it alone. 💙
This group is for parents who:
✔️ Feel overwhelmed or exhausted by daily struggles
✔️ Want practical tools for emotional regulation (yours and your child’s)
✔️ Long for connection with other parents who “get it”
What we’ll do together:
✨ Explore ways to stay calm and connected in tough moments
✨ Build a supportive parent community
✨ Practice self-regulation skills to help you and your child thrive
📅 Day/Time: TBD – bi-weekly Mondays or Tuesdays at 6 PM (based on group consensus)
💻 Location: Virtual (link provided)
💲 Cost: $80 per session
Facilitated by:
Tara Pienkowski, MS, Sp. Ed., LMFT (Certified in TraumaPlay™ & DIR®)
Marriage and Family Therapy Interns
📩 Contact Tara: tpienkowski@ncmft.com
📍 Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy, PLLC
5711 West Genesee Street, Camillus, NY 13031
📞 (315) 294-0206 | 🌐 NCMFT.com
💬 Comment below or email Tara to learn more and reserve your spot!

09/18/2025

09/10/2025

So excited to share another group opportunity with you all!!

🌪️ CALM IN THE STORM: A Therapeutic Parent Support Group 🌪️

Are you parenting a child with BIG feelings and BIG behaviors? You don’t have to do it alone. 💙

This group is for parents who:
✔️ Feel overwhelmed or exhausted by daily struggles
✔️ Want practical tools for emotional regulation (yours and your child’s)
✔️ Long for connection with other parents who “get it”

What we’ll do together:
✨ Explore ways to stay calm and connected in tough moments
✨ Build a supportive parent community
✨ Practice self-regulation skills to help you and your child thrive

📅 Day/Time: TBD – bi-weekly Mondays or Tuesdays at 6 PM (based on group consensus)
💻 Location: Virtual (link provided)
💲 Cost: $80 per session

Facilitated by:
Tara Pienkowski, MS, Sp. Ed., LMFT (Certified in TraumaPlay™ & DIR®)

Marriage and Family Therapy Interns

📩 Contact Tara: tpienkowski@ncmft.com

📍 Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy, PLLC
5711 West Genesee Street, Camillus, NY 13031
📞 (315) 294-0206 | 🌐 NCMFT.com

💬 Comment below or email Tara to learn more and reserve your spot!

09/08/2025

We’re excited to announce a new Anger Coping Skills Group for Kids starting Monday, September 22nd and or Wednesday, September 24th at our Marcellus office.

Monday Group:
🕒 Time: 5:00–6:00 PM
📍 Location: Marcellus Office

Wednesday Group:
🕒 Time: 3:30–4:30 PM
📍 Location: Marcellus Office

This group will focus on helping kids build healthy coping strategies, manage big emotions, and strengthen communication skills in a supportive environment.

👉 To sign up: Email tgreen@ncmft.com today or contact your therapist for more information.
💡 We are able to provide a superbill for those with out-of-network benefits.

Spaces are limited—reserve your spot today! $80 dollars per session, and contact us for sibling group rate

08/27/2025

✨ Welcome Kayla Grimes, PMHNP-BC, to Nurturing Connections! ✨

We are so excited to introduce Kayla Grimes, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, to our team. Kayla brings a compassionate and integrative approach to psychiatric care, specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and mood disorders across the lifespan.

With a strong background in both nursing and mental health, Kayla blends evidence-based medication management with holistic, person-centered strategies to support each client’s journey toward balance and wellness.

Her passion for collaborative, compassionate care aligns beautifully with our mission at Nurturing Connections: to foster lifelong mental and emotional well-being.

Please join us in giving Kayla a warm welcome! Contact her today to schedule an appt! kgrimes@NCMFT.com 💙

08/18/2025

🌿 Meet Our New Intern, Lia Figurelli 🌿

We are so excited to welcome Lia Figurelli to Nurturing Connections as an intern Marriage and Family Therapist from Syracuse University! 💙

Lia works with individuals, families, and relationships of all types, approaching each client with a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive lens. She has special interests in:
✨ Relational challenges
✨ Adoption and foster care
✨ Parenting support
✨ LGBTQ+ populations
✨ Complex trauma (including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, substance use, abuse, and neglect)

Lia draws from play therapy, attachment-based, contextual, narrative, and solution-focused approaches—always tailoring her work to meet the unique needs of each client. Her goal is to provide a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can deepen self-understanding, build resilience, and find healing.

We’re so grateful to have Lia on our team and can’t wait for you to meet her! Contact us today to schedule an appt!! 💫

Phone: (315) 217-5435
Email: LFigurelli@NCMFT.com
Office: 5711 West Genesee Street Camillus ; 19 South Street Suite C Marcellus

07/03/2025

We still have a few openings left. Reach out to mvanhatten@ncmft.com for more info today!!

06/15/2025

Join us for the first time ever!! Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy is excited to offer a social skills therapeutic summer camp this year!! We are focusing on emotional regulation, social skill building, anxiety and body awareness all while having a lot of fun! Contact us today as space is limited to sign up!!

Please contact Stephanie at 315-216-7945 or email info@ncmft.com with any questions or to sign up today!

06/13/2025

Contact Isabella today to get signed up!!

05/03/2025

Michelle and Thane, owners of Nurturing Connections Marriage and Family Therapy attended the Kids Like Connor gala last night. What an incredible and beautiful event to support an amazing organization for our community. Congratulations Lauren- keep up the amazing work💙

04/01/2025

In honor of Occupational Therapy Month- Nurturing Connections is proud to welcome Stephanie Francis, an OT to our team!!

Occupational therapists (OTs) help individuals with mental health conditions by supporting their engagement in meaningful daily activities, improving social skills, managing stress and emotions, and promoting overall well-being, ultimately enhancing their ability to participate in everyday life. Contact us today if interested and to learn more.

Happy OT Month!!
OT practitioners help patients to participate in every day occupations! We help people do the things that occupy others’ time. We help others do the things that matter most to them It’s all of the most meaningful activities a person desires and needs to participate in for daily life.

For children this may include things like doing cartwheels, riding a bike, getting dressed, writing their name, brushing their hair, or playing with friends.

YOU, OT practitioner, make a difference in the world. That difference makes a ripple of impact. Helping one person achieve a small goal effects that person’s family and everyone they are in contact with. Now multiply that wellbeing to your entire caseload.

Occupational therapy practitioners are difference makers! We literally do, as occupational therapy professionals, what matters most in this world.

Promoting the profession during the month of April is an easy way to celebrate. Use the informative graphics in this blog post and share on social media every day this month! Tag and use and !

https://www.theottoolbox.com/occupational-therapy-month/

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5711 West Genesee Street
Camillus, NY
13031

Telephone

+15137819764

Website

http://www.ncmft.com/

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At Nurturing Connections Family Therapy, attachment theory serves as the foundation for all services, and provides the building blocks for emotional regulation, empowerment and family connection. This approach to treatment spurs parents and caregivers to be curious and ask what is the need underlying the behavior? Evidence based interventions such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss in Children, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Resiliency Model and somatic sensory based therapy activities are utilized in conjunction with the overall attachment framework to navigate and process trauma safely.

I have had the privilege of previously working at Vera House stationed at the McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center providing trauma therapy for the past 6+ years. I am trained in TRM Level 1 & 2 (Trauma Resiliency Model Level 1 & 2, TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, TRM Trauma Resiliency Model.

Due to my personal journey as a foster parent and adoption I feel a strong connection and understanding to families navigating some of the highs and lows of these life experiences. Providing support and witnessing children, families and individuals grow through traumatic experiences is a great joy and something I feel blessed to continue here.