She also does not really believe in therapy for children under 10. (Interesting position for a child psych, but she is also a professor.)
Does she do talk therapy? If so, then I'd agree. ("Tell me about your childhood." "Uh, this is my childhood.") Seriously, we found talk therapy to not be at all useful for DS.
However, there are lots of kinds of therapy that can be highly useful, and the elementary years kids are still laying down a lot of basic thinking processes--IMO it's the time to nip issues like anxiety in the bud, before kids get to be teenagers and everything is blown further out of proportion. Cognitive-behavior therapy is very good for this, and I'd say even a bright 6-year-old could use basic CBT strategies.
Our DS has also benefited from Applied Behavior Analysis, therapy targeted to giving him the skills he was missing due to his autism. Very beneficial, especially when done early in life.
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