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Child–Parent Psychotherapy helps young children and families recover and heal after stressful and traumatic events.

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Mission

Child–Parent Psychotherapy helps young children and families recover and heal after stressful and traumatic events

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Early childhood trauma can affect development, relationships can be protective, and treatment can help.

 

“CPP is the most well-established intervention for treating trauma in infants and toddlers.”

–2026 research review of interventions for young children exposed to trauma

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Testimonials

“Thank you for helping us so much. Our life would be so different without [CPP]. Being able to communicate with [my child] is the best thing that happened to me.”

Mother

“In time we started to see . . . it’s ok we can trust people, to be honest in therapy, to talk about the bad things that happen . . . to feel our sparkle inside that we thought we lost; with help we are finding out just how bright our sparkle really is.”

Mother

“You are the only one that explained how trauma is affecting my daughter, and I’m so grateful.”

Adoptive Mother to her CPP Therapist

“CPP has helped to support caregivers and parents communicate and understand how their child has been impacted by early trauma and how a child is communicating their needs.”

CPP Provider

“It has operationalized and fully legitimized the art of the work and the love in the work by breaking those BIG things down into tangible and observable objectives.”

CPP Provider

CPP Training

Implementation-level training in Child-Parent Psychotherapy occurs through three mechanisms, each of which involves a combination of didactic training, active learning through clinical practice and case presentations, supervision/consultation, and agency/team support.

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