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Mrs Brenna helped me with my son who was 10 years old. She gave us the tools and taught each of us how to apply them in a way that... read more benefited us. What I appreciate about Mrs Brenna is that she becomes a part of your team. She listened and addressed current and relevant issues that we had going on. Then we would make a plan for success. Very good stuff!

Dr. Hicks was incredible in helping our son and us with play therapy. We were unsure if some of our 5 year old son's expressed feelings had a physical or... read more emotional source and having exhausted all the standard medical options with no clear diagnosis, we were fortunate to find The Kid Counselor Center. After our first meeting with Dr. Hicks, we knew we were in the right place and in good hands as she understood what we were dealing with and offered hope for a way out of our uncertainty and concern. Over time, our son's expressions of physical discomfort began to dissipate and now having completed the work in play therapy have nearly completely disappeared. We feel confident that Dr. Hicks was able to teach him tools that allow him to express his emotional feelings and that he will continue to progress with these life skills. As parents, we are no longer wracked with anxiety as he just doesn't seem to be suffering any more like he once was. Dr. Hicks is a skilled professional who has extensive knowledge in the area of children's emotions and psychology. She showed us that she has genuine and heartfelt care and love for our child and truly wanted to help. She demonstrated empathy and understanding and always made herself accessible any time we wanted to talk or sort through something. We highly recommend Dr. Hicks and The Kid Counselor to any parent who sees their child struggling. She was an answer to our prayers. 5 Stars!!!

Dr. Brenna is amazing. Our son was having a lot of anxiety over his food allergies and became fearful to eat. After a few sessions with Dr. Brenna... read more he started to feel more comfortable with eating again and now he is eating a lot! We are so grateful for Dr. Brenna for giving us our son back! I highly recommend her.

Dr. Brenna is an angel that saved our family from an unimaginable situation that involved the courts and a reunification therapist that was not taking into account the best interest... read more of my son. She was so gracious to see my son knowing that I would eventually need her to provide her expertise in my case. She was able to allow my son to have a voice based on what he wanted while others were telling him that he didn't have a say in the matter and would do as he was told. Fortunately for us, the courts took her advise and the case was closed. My son established such a bond with Dr. Brenna that even after the case was closed, he still wanted to go see her. From the bottom of my heart there are not enough words to express my family's gratitude for your professionalism, your willingness to help and your caring ways! Forever grateful. If I could give 10 stars I would!

I can’t say enough wonderful things about Mrs. Brenna. She has been instrumental in helping my son emotionally, deal with the divorce of his parents. She is a skilled professional... read more and possess a wealth of knowledge that has been helpful for me as a parent, and for my son. He just loved going to see Ms. Brenna, it was often the highlight of his week. She is so patient and kind, easy to talk to, helpful, considerate, thoughtful, flexible, approachable, understanding, sympathetic, insightful and I could go on and on. We are beyond grateful to have met and worked with Mrs. Brenna. I would suggest her to any one of my friends in a heartbeat (and I have). She is simply amazing at what she does, truly AMAZING. Before starting with her, I looked high and low, trying to find someone that I thought would be able to help my son deal with his emotions in a way that was fun, effective and appropriate for a 5 year old and she was definitely it! We ❤️ Mrs. Brenna!

I highly recommend Ms. Brenna, I was at my wits end when I brought my son to her, he was having a hard time at school not wanting to go,... read more having huge melt downs often at home, he seemed angry all time. I tried everything to help him and the doctors said I should start him on medication but I really did not want to do that. So I found The Kid Counselor and decide to give it a try, not really believing play therapy alone would ever help him or be enough. But I am a believer now!!! She completely changed my son!! He loves school now he has learned to control his temper and he is really happy! Words cannot express my gratitude for Ms Brenna. I will be forever thankful for her and what she did for our family. ❤️

Our experience with Brenna was life-changing. My child went in with some potential long-term issues and walked out with a new lease on life - confident, happy, and with a... read more set of lifelong tools to take with her on her journey forward...and this happened in a relatively short period of time. You're getting the best of the best here.

Dr. Hicks was instrumental in helping our six year old son. When we began therapy, he was plagued by anxiety and compulsive actions. As time progressed through treatment he began... read more to develop the tools needed to work through his issues. Dr. Hicks was thorough with us and kept us engaged throughout his treatment. Our little boy is now finished with therapy and is happy as ever. It touches our heart to see him flourish and I know for a fact we could not have done it without Dr. Hicks! We are beyond thankful!

Dr. Hicks is a true proven professional that takes every child she cares for to the highest personal level. Finally someone that truly cares about her patients! she worked with... read more our daughter for most of 2017 and has an unbelievable approach to treatment. She is the best there is hands down!

I’m a local ophthalmologist and my 7 year old daughter was having difficulties with some transitions happening at home. Dr Brenna surpassed my highest expectations for professionalism, ease of communication,... read more and most importantly with helping my daughter. I would have searched the entire state if I had to for someone of her caliber and am so grateful she happened to be down the road. As a single father, it gives me great comfort knowing help is around the corner if needed!

Immediately after our son turned 4 years old his behavior at home and preschool took a nose-dive. He was aggressive, disrespectful, self-injuring, not listening and antagonistic. After looking into different... read more behavioral therapy options we decided on play therapy with Dr. Brenna. What better way for a kid to work out his/her issues than through what they do best; play? It was great. Our son went once a week for an hour and just had fun. He had no idea we had an agenda. Which to us was important. We didn't want him to think he was "bad" or "defective" but we wanted to get him the help he needed so we could nip whatever issues he was having in the bud and hopefully avoid more problems when he is a teenager and more difficult to manage. Dr. Brenna was wonderful. She was very kind and caring, supportive and professional. Our son clicked with her quickly and would be very excited to go see her and play every week. We noticed an immediate improvement in behavior after only one or two sessions. He was regulating his emotions better. Less angry outbursts and hitting himself. Being more cooperative and calm. Even at preschool his behavior improved. He went from getting a bad report every day to getting a good one. After only 15 sessions we can honestly say our son has grown tremendously in his attitude and behavior. He is more considerate of others, he thinks before he acts now and considers the consequences of his actions, he is helpful and thoughtful and much less explosive. Dr. Brenna offered a parenting training seminar that we also found very helpful. It teaches parents to use the same methods of interaction that she uses in play therapy. It has really helped us a lot at home in correcting behavior in a kind, loving, respectful and effective manner. He really responds well to this system of reflecting feeling, choice giving, limit setting and enforcing consequences if the limit is vioated. And he doesn't argue when we have to enforce a negative consequence, because he knew his choices ahead of time and he made the choice fully aware of the consequence. It is empowering for him and lifts the burden of us being "the bad guys" all the time. We really can't recommend Dr. Brenna enough. My son had a great experience and we are very pleased with the results.

I was at wits end - legitimately about to pull my hair out - because I could not figure out how to help my little man out.. he is 4... read more and was struggling at daycare with his teachers and friends, my husband and I could handle him at home and he seemed to be calmer at home versus at daycare. He was aggressive, overbearing, and obnoxious.. he was getting written up about 4 to 5 times a week and just didn’t look or act like himself anymore, almost as if he felt like he couldn’t do anything right and once the school mentioned meds I knew I owed it to my baby to do something because he didn’t deserve this.. went to google and found Ms Brenna.. she is absolutely wonderful and I am forever greatful for her.. my little man would just play for an hour with her and genuinely looked forward to it and had no idea she was helping him.. it’s been about 12 weeks and he’s maybe gotten written up twice.. HUMONGOUS strides from where we were. Thanks to her I feel like my little man finally has the tools to cope with our society and be successful in life. Don’t give up - there’s hope - thank you Ms Brenna for everything you’ve done. You have forever impacted our lives ❤️.