How We Work

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Alternatives for Families Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), and trauma-informed individual, family, and group therapy. Evidence-based treatment is the gold standard for trauma therapy and helps children, adolescents and their caregivers manage feelings, talk about the trauma, and develop plans for feeling safe in the future. Children’s Advocacy Center of Charlotte also offers Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) which is up to 8 weekly sessions with the goal of helping children and their caregivers recover from traumatic experiences by reducing symptoms and enhancing coping skills. 

PSB-CBT treatment for school-aged children (7-12). This group treatment, with both a child and caregiver component, is appropriate for children exhibiting or initiating problematic sexual behaviors. Children and caregivers in treatment complete modules that include rules about sexual behavior, privacy and boundaries, coping and social skills, impulse control, appropriate sexual behavior for a child’s development, responses to sexualized behavior, safety planning, and prevention. According to a ten-year follow-up study for this specific model, 98% of children who completed treatment never engaged in another problematic sexual behavior (Carpentier, Silovsky, Chaffin, 2006).