Kerrian Ferguson
Licensed Master Social Worker
Kerrian Ferguson
Licensed Master Social Worker
Specializing In
Trauma
Depression
Anxiety
Self-Esteem Issues
Phobias
School Avoidance
About Kerrian Ferguson
Kerrian is a Licensed Master Social Worker with experience working with children, adolescents, and adults from diverse backgrounds. She has experience providing therapy to children, adolescents, and families in hospitals, family shelters, early intervention programs, and private practice settings. Kerrian is well-versed in providing crisis intervention, safety planning, and short and long-term psychotherapy to address issues around trauma, depression, anxiety, and managing daily stress.
Kerrian approaches counseling with a client centered focus to help empower individuals to work toward their goals and build self-efficacy. Kerrian also integrates mindfulness to help increase self-awareness. She utilizes a variety of techniques into her practice to best meet a child’s needs, including, but not limited to: cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, motivational interviewing, and behavior therapy.
Kerrian received her masters from New York University specializing in clinical practices. In her spare time, Kerrian enjoys traveling and spending time with loved ones.
Training & Techniques
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is an evidence-based approach to treating anxiety disorders, such as generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It has also been demonstrated to be effective in treating depression. CBT helps children and teens analyze and reduce negative thoughts that lead to unhelpful thinking and behavior in order to promote more positive thoughts and experiences.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a therapeutic technique used to establish rapport with children and adolescents and used to encourage positive behavioral changes. The goal is to help children convince themselves they should, can, and will change. It emphasize the importance of finding internal motivation to change thoughts and behaviors to promote positive experiences. Instead of convincing children to “want to change,” they become aware of their need to make changes in their life to experience success.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a way to help children and teens slow down their thinking so they can pay more attention to their thoughts and notice what they are doing. This is the opposite of rushing or balancing many tasks at once. Instead, children and adolescents learn to take their time and become intuned with their surroundings. Mindfulness can be thought of as a relaxation strategy to help a child stay calm under stress, avoid becoming upset too easily, slow dow instead of rushing, be more patient, listen and get along better with others, pay attentio and be less distracted, and feel happier doing everyday activities. Being mindful is a great skills that allows children to feel less stressed and experience more joy.
Behavior Therapy
Behavior Therapy is an intervention aimed at managing problemati thoughts and behaviors that are inadvertently reinforced in a child’s environment. As a result, the undesirable behavior may increase in frequency or intensity. The intent of Behavior Therapy is to reinforce and encourage more desirable behaviors for children and result in more positive feedback from others and more success in various situations. Parents are often crucial to helping children learn strategies to reinforce positive behaviors. Behavior Therapy can be applied to help children better manage in the classroom, at home with family, and when interacting with peers. The therapist and child will often role-play and model more desirable behavior and help children practice applying these behaviors to various situations.
Availability
Kerrian is available for in-person appointments on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the afternoons and evenings. She is available for online appointments on Saturday mornings.
Costs
Sign up online for a 45-minute child or adolescent therapy appointment. Registration only takes a few minutes. You will then receive intake forms to sign and directions for attending the appointment.
Do you have out-of-network health insurance benefits? Many commercial and employer PPO health insurance plans do. Contact us to find out how much you can save on the cost of therapy by using your benefits.
Schedule an Appointment Today
Courageous Kids Counseling is an out of network (OON) group practice. As such, fees are due at the time of service. We are happy to help you submit for reimbursement from your out of network benefits. We accept a variety of payment methods, including cash, check, debit card, and credit card, health savings accounts, and flexible health care spending accounts.
Cancellation Policy
It is important to attend appointments consistently in order to see the best results. We understand that our clients sometimes need to cancel their appointments. Please let us know if you are unable to keep your appointment. You will be charged a fee if the session is not canceled with at least 24 hours notice. If you have any questions about our policy, we would be happy to provide more information.
