Specialized Therapy for Children & Families, LLC

11/24/2025

11/19/2025

🤓Checkout our FREE DBT skills “cheat sheets!” Used to organize coping strategies into the four core modules of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. 🤍These skills help individuals manage intense emotions, build resilience, and improve relationships. Call today & Schedule an appointment at Specialized Therapy for Children & Families! Incredibly effective work is awaiting your TEEN, or perhaps yourself! 🙋‍♀️💁‍♂️ This very specific model has been proven to effectively teach regulation of emotions, build a mindfulness practice , improve communication & decrease/replace self-harming behaviors with appropriate/safe coping skills. Call & ask about our DBT model today! Kristy Fernand, LCSW 🙌(201)383-5716 #❤

11/03/2025

To all of the parents seeking support, following the loss of an infant: A dear longtime colleague & friend to “Specialized Therapy,” Maureen Gaffney, LCSW, is hosting this sensitive, yet incredibly healing/reparative workshop in Frederick Maryland. It is free to attend and she has decided to add the option to attend virtually. The goal of the workshop is to help grieving parents prepare for the holidays.

The workshop will cover topics such as:

* Boosting your self-care
* Managing your time with friends and family
* Learning different ways to answer difficult questions
* Finding meaningful ways to include your baby

To register for the event, please complete this Google Form:
https://forms.gle/EfreFsyggV1rewD49

If you know anyone you think would benefit from attending please share the flyer or link to sign up so that Maureen can reach out to them to confirm attendance and provide the link.

Thank you for helping spread the word.

With love & well wishes for you,
Kristy Fernand, LCSW

10/22/2025

I share this with you as a Positive Body Image Warrior- and in honor of Mental Health Awareness, Eating Disorder Recovery & Self-Love💖 … this message is spot on! Love this girl, from a personal and a professional standpoint - we need more role-models speaking out just like you Meredith Steele - so THANK YOU🙏❤️!

10/10/2025

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10/04/2025

Pick your head up
Plant your feet
Breathe in deeply
Believe and repeat ✨

09/19/2025

Thx to The National Alliance-4-Eating Disorders for this month’s “Raising Awareness around the Stigma related to Large bodied individuals”❤️Type this link into your search bar to register for the above support group via zoom!❤️ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-iqqj8vGdXTBCfJCNBjKeXBBU39NhHF #/registration

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09/14/2025

🧠What if you trained your brain to identify stress, as “FUEL FOR GROWTH”? 🧠. This article in Pschology Today, speaks on the topic of “operating at the edge of difficulty” claiming how “minds not only recruit resources to grow, when things are more stressful”, but that is also where they lay the foundation for personal well-being.🧐.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒So perhaps the next time you think you’re doing your child a favor, by making life easy on them, eliminating all stressors for them, including an after school routine that is free of chores or responsibilities, think again!

🌟 We need challenging environments because they activate internal mechanisms of adaptation and growth. In their absence – like an immune system, overprotected and shielded from germs – we are prone to be more weak, both physically and psychologically.

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08/26/2025

Being prepared = Being successful💥

08/01/2025

🔥Mood for August🔥:
I can do it.
I will do it.
I deserve it.
End of story.🔥

07/24/2025

Kristy Fernand, LCSW, here with Specialized Therapy. Now, we don’t only just see children & adolescents. We also see entire families, couples and certainly many individuals of varying ages (ranging from 3 years old, to as old as one feels😉 or tells themselves they are!). Summer is the perfect time to make an appointment! Especially before things pick up in the Fall🍂, and everyone’s schedules start to get packed with one thing after another! Wow, it’s so nice to plan ahead, problem solve & stay organized- plus, to model this trait for our children, too! 🙌Make the call today to simply ask any of the questions you may have. An appointment is awaiting you!