Autism Therapy Services NJ
Types of Autism Therapy
Do you or your child struggle with symptoms of Autism that impact daily life? Gaming Approaches Toward Education, LLC (GATE) provides Autism therapy in NJ. With a wide variety of treatments from individual therapy to ABA therapy or play therapy, our team of counselors can help your child create healthier thought patterns and behaviors.
We offer the following autism therapy services in the below location:
Individual Therapy
During individual therapy, our licensed counselors will work with you one-on-one. In this safe place, you can address the struggles you’re facing by being neurodiverse. With devoted attention from our licensed counselors, you’ll be able to get the help you need for your specific situation.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy addresses negative thoughts and how they lead to negative actions. This type of therapy will help you build better thought patterns and coping strategies to address difficult circumstances when they arise.
ABA Therapy
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an evidence-based Autism therapy that improves behaviors with a antecedent, behavior, consequence model. We'll help your child change unhealthy behaviors for healthier social, attention, and communication skills.
Autism Play Therapy
At Gaming Approaches Towards Education, LLC (GATE), we use play in our autism therapy in NJ. Autism play therapy includes board games, storytelling, role-playing, sand trays, and expressive arts.
Therapy Based on Your Needs
Our licensed counselors will guide you through a consultation process to determine the best level of care for your needs. There’s no following a pre-set template. We design your therapy plan based on your unique mental health issues and therapy desires.
At GATE, we are determined to make receiving autism therapy services as easy and stress-free as possible. We accept insurance, including Horizon and CIGNA.
How Does Autism Therapy Work?
Autism therapy services can help both children and adults on the spectrum create positive thought patterns and healthy behaviors. Autistic individuals often struggle in noisy, bright, or chaotic environments because their brains struggle to process everything at once, resulting in panic attacks.
They may also have difficulty understanding nuanced communication, which can make it difficult to build meaningful relationships or community with their peers. Specialized therapy can help autistic children and adults learn to identify stressors, create healthy coping behaviors, and communicate more easily with allistic individuals.
If you struggle with sensory sensitivity, depression, relationship struggles, loneliness, or miscommunication, therapy can help you create coping strategies and overcome these challenges.
GATE Therapy Intake Process
When you work with GATE, receiving autism therapy is easy. We follow key steps, including consultation, evaluation, and appointments.
Consultation
The first step to receiving treatment is to provide our team with important information. This includes prior diagnosis, insurance, treatment desires, and whether you prefer in-person or telehealth sessions. You’ll also be set up on our confidential web-based program, TheraNest, which will keep all of your information and future appointments in one place.
Evaluation
One of our licensed counselors will help you complete a self-evaluation. They will then conduct their own evaluation to determine what level of care is best for your mental health needs. Once you’re happy with the outlook of your therapy experience, we’ll create a treatment plan.
Appointment
You can confirm, cancel, or reschedule your appointments at any time. At this point in the therapy process, you can also use credit card information for co-payments. All of this can be done through TheraNest, so the process is simple and stress-free.
Benefits of Autism Therapy
Improved Communication Skills
If you or your child struggle to communicate clearly to others, autism therapy can help. Our counselors will work through your thoughts and behaviors related to your autism and help you find better ways to express yourself.
Improved Behavior
Negative thoughts often lead to negative behavior. This can result in conflict with others and a decline in all facets of a person’s behavioral health, such as mental and emotional. Our autism therapy services help you address your unhealthy thought patterns and provide new ways to overcome difficult situations.
Improved Self Esteem
Being on the spectrum can cause low self-esteem. Our counselors will help you work through your diagnosis and provide healthy coping strategies to live a positive life on the spectrum.
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