Pediatric Counseling
Dr. Natalie Vona offers counseling services for parents and patients at our Centennial, CO location.
0-3 Years of Age
- Parental post-partum depression or anxiety
- Parental feelings of isolation
- Going through a traumatic pregnancy or birth
- Dealing with the diagnosis of medical or genetic issue
- Sleep concerns
- Fussy babies
3-6 Years of Age
- Behavior: tantrums, aggression, or noncompliance with dressing, brushing teeth, buckling seat belt, etc.
- Toilet training
- Picky eater
- Sleep: trouble falling asleep alone, trouble staying asleep, night terrors or nightmares
- Anxiety and fears: monsters, leaving parents
- Separation anxiety
- Parental training on a variety of issues
- Adjustment to a new sibling
- Anxiety in family history: preventative skills for parents
- Parental accommodating
6-9 Years of Age
- Behavior
- Sleep
- Enuresis and Encopresis
- School issues: learning, anxiety, or help in getting special attention services
- School refusal: does not or will not go to school
- Explosive mood, tantrums, or “intense” attitude
- Separation anxiety (difficulty leaving parents to go to school or to a friend’s)
- Fears and phobias: throwing up, choking, storms, intruders, parents not coming back, etc.
- Feeling sick or missing school
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Attentional concerns
- Parental/Family stress
- Sibling conflict
10-13 Years of Age
- School refusal or other school issues
- Help in attaining special education services: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), anxiety, or learning
- Noncompliance or other behavioral issues: problems completing homework, problems completing chores, or arguing with parents
- Sibling conflict
- Problems with friends
- Sleep
- Anxiety: speaking in class, taking tests, grades, friends, death, or safety
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Stomach “issues”
- Migraines or headaches
- Depression: isolating themselves, or mood swings
- Attentional concerns
- Identity issues
13-20 Years of Age
- Problems with friends
- School issues: poor grades or missing school often
- Anxiety: school, grades, peers, future, or disappointing their parents
- Depression
- Behavioral: drinking, smoking, sneaking out of the house, lying, or addicted to phone
- Risk taking behavior
- Self harm; cutting
- Suicidal ideation or attempt
Other Special Areas of Expertise
- Migraines and headaches
- Post-concussion anxiety or mood issues
- Stomach issues (any pain that is starting to impact daily functions)
- Sleep at any age
- Medical procedural coping (in home or in office)
- Training for MRI, sleep study, blood draw, pill swallowing, BiPAP or CPAP
- Coping with regimen of a health condition
- Coping with a chronic illness
- Traumatic event: suicide in a school, car accident, medical trauma, or death/illness in the family
- Parent stress, anxiety, mood issues, etc.
- Family therapy regarding a family conflict
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Vona, please contact Pediatrics 5280 today at (303) 779-5437.