With Spring comes new beginnings! Welcome to the practice of Dr. Wendy Denham, North Star Families.
Dr Wendy Denham and team use a collaborative, reflective-based approach to therapy to create personalized plans to guide families towards more stability, ease and joy.
Dr. Wendy Denham (she/her) has been a licensed psychologist, supervisor and researcher for over twenty years, training therapists nationally and internationally in the assessment and application of a reflective approach with parents.
Dr. Denham has coded hundreds of interviews with patients to assess reflective capacity for Columbia and UCLA universities and has witnessed firsthand its protective power, both in her private clinical practice and as a Senior Trainer for two evidence-based parenting interventions at the Center for Reflective Communities.
Her area of specialty is supporting parents by providing parenting education, psychotherapy, and helping them develop deeper awareness of the contribution of the dual contributions of neurobiology and attachment in every parent child relationship. She is also a family therapist and works with children of all age ranges, including parents with infants, toddlers and preschoolers. She has been published about her research and clinical work chapter on assessment, prevention and early intervention in the Guildford Press published ‘Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychopathology’, which won an award for its scholarship and presents a comprehensive overview of best practices in family and child work today. Dr. Denham has hand picked her team of therapists to provide a broad range of specialties to afford the best care for individuals, families and children.
As part of our commitment to advocacy, transparency, resourcing and education we will be posting articles and resources about our work, as well as the work of other pediatric specialists.
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