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Calm Connections Therapy offers therapy for all ages, Adults, Children, Toddlers, Adolescents, Teenagers, Preteens and Tweens. Individuals, Family and Groups. Issues include; ADHD, Adoption, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Emotional Regulation, and much more.

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madison ahles

Counseling

I’m Madison Ahles, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, (LCSW), in Sarasota, Florida. 

I specialize in working with children, adolescents, young adults, parents, and families.  More specifically, I work on emotional regulation, trauma, anxiety, and depression. I use a variety of evidence based, integrative treatments to create a specialized journey for each of my clients. I am passionate about my work and look forward to meeting anyone ready to make a change.

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Therapy Services

In-Person and Video Sessions Available

Specialties

  • Child or Adolescent

  • Stress

  • Anxiety

Modality

  • Individuals

  • Family

  • Group​​

Client Focus

Age

  • Adults

  • Adolescents / Teenagers (14 to 19)

  • Preteens / Tweens (11 to 13)

  • Children (6 to 10)

  • Toddlers / Preschoolers (0 to 6)

Treatment Issues

  • ADHD

  • Anxiety

  • Anger Management

  • Behavioral Issues

  • Coping Skills

  • Communication

  • Depression

  • Emotional Disturbance

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Family Conflict

  • ​Life Transitions

  • Parenting

  • Peer Relationships

  • School Issues

  • Self Esteem

  • Self-Harming

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Women's Issues

Calm Connections Therapy offers therapy for all ages, Adults, Children, Toddlers, Adolescents, Teenagers, Preteens and Tweens. Individuals, Family and Groups. Issues include; ADHD, Adoption, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Emotional Regulation, and much more.

Treatment Approach

Types of Therapy​

  • Adoption Competent Certified

  • Art Therapy

  • Attachment-based

  • Circle of Security Parenting

  • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

  • Emotionally Focused

  • Expressive Arts

  • Intervention

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Person-Centered

  • Play Therapy

  • Sandplay

  • Strength-Based

  • Trauma Focused

Specialties / Certifications

Early Childhood: Using a variety of evidence based approaches, working with children as young as 3 years through play therapy, trust-based relational intervention, art therapy, attachment based therapy, and more.

 

Adoption Competent Certified (Rutgers): Helping adoptive families work on the psychology of adoption, conceptualizing crisis intervention, the life cycle experience in adoption of older children, attachment based parenting approaches, family focused therapy for post institutionalized adoptions, and learning strategies for managing behaviors in adoptive families.

 

Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator: Circle of Security is a video-based, reflective course that helps parents explore strengths and challenges to parenting to increase security in their children. Circle of security focuses on visuals to help parents better identify needs of their children resulting in children having positive self-esteem, decreased negative behaviors, independence, positive healthy relationships and more. Circle of Security can be completed in 8-12 sessions face to face, or over zoom.

 

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF- CBT): An evidence-based treatment approach shown to help children, adolescents, and their parents (or other caregivers) overcome trauma-related difficulties, TF-CBT also helps parents deal with distressing emotions involved in the trauma of their children. 

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Calm Connections Therapy offers therapy for all ages, Adults, Children, Toddlers, Adolescents, Teenagers, Preteens and Tweens. Individuals, Family and Groups. Issues include; ADHD, Adoption, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Emotional Regulation, and much more.

46 N. Washington Blvd.

Suite 8, Sarasota, FL 34236

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Calm Connections Therapy offers therapy for all ages, Adults, Children, Toddlers, Adolescents, Teenagers, Preteens and Tweens. Individuals, Family and Groups. Issues include; ADHD, Adoption, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Emotional Regulation, and much more.
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