Supporting Children, Strengthening Families
At Aponti Child and Family Counseling, we believe every child and family deserves a safe space to explore and navigate life’s challenges. Our mission is to partner with you, providing compassionate support and guidance as we work together to foster growth, healing, and resilience on your family’s journey.
Our Services
We offer specialized therapy for children and adolescents, helping them navigate emotional and behavioral challenges. Our services address ADHD/ADD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), PTSD, Adjustment Disorders, Anxiety, and more. We provide individual counseling for children, family therapy to strengthen relationships, and parent coaching to offer guidance in supporting your child’s development. Through evidence-based practices and a compassionate approach, we are here to help your family grow, heal, and thrive together.
“I am dedicated to helping children and their families navigate emotional and behavioral challenges. I specialize in working with children up to 18 years old, addressing issues such as ADHD/ADD, ODD, PTSD, Adjustment Disorders, and Anxiety. Let’s work together to bring healing, resilience, and balance to your family.”
Tylice MacDonald, LPC.
Individual Therapy
I understand that you have a choice and variety of individual therapist to support you. That is why I will work to get to know you and meet you where you at in your journey. I have a variety of appointments that can work with your life schedule. I work in-home, in office or I have virtual sessions available.
Child Therapy
Children communicate through play, there fore their treatment may look different that an adult. I have a variety of toys and therapeutic books that I use to help children express their feelings. Children react to trauma differently than adults so meeting them where they are and letting them have some autonomy over the services they receive can support the therapeutic process.
Family Therapy
Families go through a variety of changes and navigating theses changes and challenges are not always easy. There are times that you need to seek support from a neutral party to address concerns with in your unit. Parenting styles, separations, Communication are some of the concerns that can be supported with the therapeutic environment.
Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Child Parent Psychotherapy is a specific intervention that helps a parent understand how specific events (trauma) affect the child parent relationship through play. Clinician will collaborate with families to understand the event, and allow the child through play a space to communicate and process their experience.
Tylice MacDonald, LPC.
I am dedicated to helping children and their families navigate emotional and behavioral challenges. I specialize in working with children up to 18 years old, addressing issues such as ADHD/ADD, ODD, PTSD, Adjustment Disorders, and Anxiety. Using a compassionate and evidence-based approach, my goal is to create a safe and supportive environment where children can thrive and families can grow stronger together. Let’s work together to bring healing, resilience, and balance to your family.
“Empowering Families, Guiding Children—Together Toward Healing”
What Types of Issues Do We Address?
We specialize in treating a range of issues including ADHD/ADD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Adjustment Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and more. Our goal is to help children manage emotions and behaviors while improving family dynamics.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
ADHD often begins in childhood and can persist into adulthood. It may contribute to low self-esteem, troubled relationships, and difficulty at school or work.
Symptoms include limited attention and hyperactivity.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
ADD often is diagnosed in childhood. An individual who has trouble focusing and experiences difficulty in attending to and following instructions, but is not hyperactive
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
ODD is a behavioral disorder in children and adolescents that’s characterized by a pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Children could experience trauma directly or could witness it happening to someone else. When children develop long-term symptoms (longer than one month) from such stress, which are upsetting or interfere with their relationships and daily activities.
Adjustment Disorders
a group of symptoms, such as stress, anxiety, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
a mental disorder that causes people to experience excessive, persistent, and uncontrollable worry that interferes with their daily lives
My Approach & Philosophy
My approach to therapy is to understand and create a strong therapeutic relationship that will support and strengthen my clients in every aspect of their life. I have experience working with children and families with complex concerns, in different areas of their lives. These concerns include trauma, Intimate/domestic violence attachment and bonding, depression, ADHD/ADD, martial/parent child relationship issues, grief/loss, substance use, and mood disorders as well as self-harming behaviors. I have many different therapeutic approaches that I utilize to help my clients heal from disruptions in their lives. Solution Focused therapy allows me to partner with my client and identify solutions that will work for them and provide the best outcomes.
I support families to advocate for educational services such as IEP’s/504 plans to help their children access their education. I work with schools to support children growth and development within their educational setting.
Understanding a family’s strengths will allow for a family to grow and identify and achieve goals and sustain them. My purpose is to help people find their strength and facilitate growth so they can change their situations.
Referral Forms
To make your experience easier, we’ve provided all the necessary forms for download. Whether you’re a new client or updating information, you can find everything you need right here. Simply download, complete, and bring them to your appointment, or email them to us ahead of time. If you have any questions about the forms, don’t hesitate to contact us—we’re here to help.
Get In Touch
Call
(860)-595-2680
Address
1 Enterprise Dr. Suite 420 Shelton, CT. 06484
Hours
Mon – Fri: 10am – 9pm
Weekends: 10am – 2pm