Gould has over 40 years of experience providing therapeutic services to children and adults. She is able to provide a clinical approach to changing behavior while using brain science. Concerning behaviors result from underlying issues that need to be addressed. She knows from experience that behavior plans sit in drawers and file cabinets and are not used. They also are often ineffective as they o
nly address the signal that there is a problem. Gould partners with individuals, parents, teachers and caregivers to come up with practical solutions to concerning behaviors by teaching skills and changing the environment. The stress is addressed which is communicated through behavior. The solutions reflect that what is observable is a neurological response to perceived threat. Individuals don’t make a conscious choice to have challenging behavior. These solutions are respectful, effective and sensible. Gould understands the challenges facing families of children who are struggling. As an experienced parent herself, she knows that a parent’s sense of well-being is based on how one’s children are faring physically, academically, emotionally and socially. A parent is really only as happy as their least happy child. Parents may need support from an objective professional at different periods during their child’s life. Couples may need counseling to strengthen their relationship in order to become better parents. Siblings and grandparents may need support as well. Gould helps parents build on their own strengths and find the inner resources to be the best parent they can be. She does not view needing professional support to be a sign of pathology or inadequacy. Individuals may need a partner in their journey of self-understanding. Some people need help learning to advocate to get their needs met. Gould’s services strive make improvements in daily life. She has had relationships with clients that has spanned decades and believes it is the relationship that is most important. Gould enjoys providing training and consultation to other professionals. Regardless of whether the service is relationship training, behavioral support or empathetic therapy, Ms. Gould believes that every client deserves the utmost respect and the highest quality services. She views those services as being Neurodevelopmentally informed, trauma sensitive, biologically respectful, relationship based ways of supporting all humans.
