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We built this place for children, teens, and the parents who love them. A warm, unhurried space where your kid actually wants to show up, and where play is taken seriously. Come home to joy.
Serving San Jose, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, and across the South Bay and Peninsula.
Book a Free 15-Min CallYour Therapy Nook is a child and teen therapy practice in San Jose and Redwood City, California. We provide child-led play therapy, teen therapy, Brainspotting, and parent coaching for kids ages 3 to 17, in person, with monthly parent coaching built into every case.
Child therapy, teen therapy, and parent coaching. All under one roof, all working together.
Every family we work with gets three things: weekly sessions for your child or teen, monthly parent coaching for you, and a therapist whose only job is to understand what's happening inside your family, not just the behaviors.
What happens at home matters as much as what happens in the room. That's why every case includes you.
Your child leads. We follow. Child-led play therapy gives kids a way to show us what's going on inside before they have the words for it. The sand tray, the figures, the art, that's how we listen.
Most kids stop dreading it within two visits and start asking when they get to come back.
Child therapyDrawing, games, real conversation. No clipboard, no interrogation. We meet your teen where they are and build the trust that actually gets them to talk, not because they have to, but because they want to.
Brainspotting is available for teens working through anxiety, trauma, or emotional overwhelm.
Teen therapyMonthly sessions with you, without your child. You'll always know what themes are emerging and what to try at home. For teens, we check with them first about what's okay to share, so the trust stays intact.
You're on the team. Not in the waiting room.
Parent coaching
For the family that's tried everything and still feels stuck.
Maybe it was this morning. The socks were wrong, then the shirt was wrong, then breakfast ended up on the floor, and everyone left for school in tears. Again.
Or maybe it's quieter than that: a teenager who answers in shrugs, takes the plate upstairs, and the table goes quiet in a way it didn't used to. The school's name flashes on your phone, and you brace before you even answer.
“Is something actually wrong?”
“Did I miss something?”
“We've run out of patience, and we don't know what to do.”
“We need help.”
The thoughts you don't say out loud. Every parent who calls us has a version of them.
You've read the articles. Tried the strategies. Had the calm conversation, and then lost it, and apologized for that too. And everyone around you has an answer. He'll grow out of it. She's just testing you. You're too soft. You're too hard. None of it survives contact with your actual Tuesday.
I see you. When everyone is running at full speed, the patient, present connection, the kind that actually reaches your kid, gets squeezed out. And it's exactly when a trained person who can slow down with your child, hear what they're actually saying, and help you find your way back to each other, can change everything.
Our job isn't to fix your child. Children aren't broken. Our job is to understand what they're trying to tell you, and to help you hear it.
Hannah Ly, LMFT
Before she was a therapist, Hannah was a nanny for busy Silicon Valley families. She watched kids fall apart in ways the adults around them couldn't decode, and watched parents who were genuinely trying still miss what was underneath. That stayed with her.
She has worked with children since 2012, and she built this practice to be the kind of place she kept wishing those families had.
Your Therapy Nook is a group practice, and every clinician here practices from the same belief system: the therapist is the most valuable toy in the playroom. The relationship is the intervention.
Hannah sees families herself and works alongside clinicians she hires, trains, and clinically directs. Whoever your family sees here was taught this approach by Hannah and is held to her standard, so the care doesn't change with the calendar. We match families by your child's age, what's going on, and what you're hoping for.
The books and the strategies.
Information was never your problem. The pattern lives in your child's nervous system, and someone has to work with the child directly.
More activities, more structure.
Busy can quiet a kid for a while. It doesn't settle them.
Waiting it out.
Patterns get more practiced. Earlier is easier, for your kid and for you.
A therapist who “also sees kids.”
A child is not a small adult, and kids are our entire practice. You picked a pediatrician for a reason.
Medication alone.
We're not against it, and we'll refer when it's worth exploring. It can turn the intensity down. It doesn't build the capacity.
A few months in, parents start noticing things. Small things at first, then bigger ones:
The meltdowns get shorter. And farther apart.
Morning routines stop being a battle every single day.
School stops calling.
Your teen starts coming out of their room.
The eye contact comes back. Conversations don't end in a slammed door.
You stop walking on eggshells and start having real moments together.
You remember why you love being this kid's parent.
You don't need to be judged. You need to be supported. That's what we're here for.
Book a Free 15-Min CallEvery family is different. Every child communicates differently. Here's the terrain we know intimately, the concerns we work with every week, in every case.
Bedtime fears, school avoidance, the worry that follows your child everywhere. Anxiety is the number one reason families come to us, and play therapy gives kids a way to process what's driving it without forcing them to sit and talk about it.
Child anxiety therapySomething happened, and your child has been different since. We work at their pace, using play, art, sand tray, and Brainspotting to help them integrate what they've been carrying, without forcing verbal recounting.
Trauma therapy for kids and teensThe chapter after placement gets the least support. This is personal to us. Every child carries attachment wounds, and families who've been through foster care and adoption carry something most therapists aren't trained to hold.
Foster and adoption therapyTantrums, meltdowns, aggression, school calls, these are communication, not character flaws. We work to understand what they're saying.
Help with big feelings and behaviorSeparated parents, blended families, kids caught between two homes. We give children a space to process family change with someone who isn't part of the conflict, and help parents on both sides support their child through it.
Divorce and family transitionsA genuinely warm, affirming space. Your teen can be fully themselves here, no explaining, no defending.
LGBTQ+ youth therapyThe light's gone out of things they used to love. Depression in kids and teens doesn't always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like irritability, boredom, or a slow pulling away. We help them find their way back.
Depression therapy for kids and teensThe grades are fine and your kid is not. Sunday-night stomachaches, an A-minus that wrecks the whole evening, a calendar without a single empty afternoon. Around here, the pressure starts young. We help kids learn to put it down.
School stress and perfectionism therapyBecause play is your child's first language.
When you drop your child off for play therapy and pick them up an hour later, it might look like they just played. That's the point.
Play is how children process what's happening inside them, long before they have words for it. The sand tray, the figures, the art supplies, the dollhouse: these aren't distractions. They're the language. And a trained play therapist knows how to listen.
Most Bay Area kids move from school to activities to homework to screens. Play therapy is often the only time in a child's week that is entirely their own, unstructured, unhurried, and held by someone trained to hear what they're saying.
If your child has done therapy before and it mostly came home as worksheets, this is a different kind of room.
A four-year-old walks in and goes straight for the sand tray. Same as last week. He buries a small dog under the sand, digs it back out, buries it again. He doesn't explain it. We don't ask him to.
For fifty minutes, the child leads and we follow. The room full of figures, art, games, books, and that sand tray isn't decoration. It's the work. What looks like play is a child saying something they don't have words for yet. Our job is to track it, stay with it, and understand it.
Some weeks look like nothing. Blocks stacked and knocked down and stacked again. Then one week the dog stays out of the sand, and he hands it to us to hold. We didn't steer him there. We just didn't miss it when it came.
Once a month, without your child in the room, we tell you what we're seeing. Not a report card. What the play is pointing at, and one specific thing to try at home.
Connection before correction. The goal isn't a well-behaved child. It's a child who feels safe, seen, and connected, and a parent who feels confident in that relationship.
For teens, and for kids carrying trauma or anxiety that talk alone hasn't reached, we also use Brainspotting, a gentle brain-body approach.
Calling a therapist for your child is not a small thing. Here's exactly what happens.
Free 15-min consultation call.
You tell us what's happening. We ask a few questions. We'll honestly tell you if we're the right fit, and if we're not, we'll point you toward someone who is.
Parent intake session.
Before your child walks into the therapy room, we meet with you first. We hear the full picture, history, what's happening, what you've tried, what your family looks like, what you're hoping for. You are the expert on your child. We start there.
Weekly sessions begin.
Children (ages 3 to 10) come for child-led play therapy. Teens (ages 11 to 17) draw, play games, talk, and use Brainspotting when it fits. Either way: 50 minutes of a trained clinician's undivided attention, from a therapist who gets curious about the person first, not the problem.
Monthly parent coaching, every case.
Every four weeks, without your child. We share what themes are emerging, ask how things are going at home, and talk about what to try. For teens, we check with them first about what's okay to share. You walk away knowing what's happening and what to do about it.
Home gets lighter.
Not a formal step, just what happens over time. Not perfect. Calmer. More connected. Joy again. Ready when you are.
Both offices are designed so your whole family feels welcome the moment you walk in, not just the child on the intake form. The waiting room has siblings in mind. The therapy room has pillow fort vibes. And the parent who walks in carrying everything gets to, for a moment, take a breath.
2901 Moorpark Ave, Suite 270, San Jose, CA 95128
Serves: San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell
Office details611 Veterans Blvd, Suite 210, Redwood City, CA 94063
Serves: Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos
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Read all articlesSessions run $200 to $270, depending on the clinician your family sees; current rates are always on our rates page. Every case includes monthly parent coaching at the same session rate.
No. We are private pay only and don't bill insurance, but we provide superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
We work with children and teens ages 3 to 17. That's the whole practice: kids and teens are the only clients we take.
Child and teen sessions are in-person only, at our San Jose and Redwood City offices. Monthly parent coaching happens by video, which keeps scheduling easier for parents.
Book a free 15-minute phone consultation at yourtherapynook.com/introduction-call or call (408) 461-5935. You tell us what's going on, and we'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit.
A free 15-minute call. No intake forms, no pressure. Just a conversation to figure out if we're the right fit for your family.
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