Therapy | The New School In The Heights

The New School In The Heights | 403 Heights Blvd. | Houston Texas 77008 | 713-802-1256 | 713-802-0715 | info@thenewmiddleschool.com

• Therapy Statement
• Social Skills Group
• Parent Support
• Policy Statement

Statement on Therapy
The New School In The Heights offers “wrap-around”, one-stop services to address your child’s educational, socio-emotional, developmental and psychological needs. Individual psychotherapy for students is not provided beyond that afforded by the therapeutic and educational environment of the classroom. “Parent Helper” meetings for parents (and/or other responsible caregivers) are included in the tuition. These are arranged at a mutually convenient time.

Some children do benefit from additional individual psychotherapy with a trained professional. If your child is already engaged with one or more “outside” therapists prior to enrolling in The New School In The Heights, our policy is to work with them as closely as possible. We strongly urge them to participate in our staff meetings and to observe often in the classrooms. The more closely they and we can work together, the more help we can be to your child. Generally, we recommend that a decision to add any sort of therapy be delayed for a few months until we have had a chance to know him or her better.

Children with diagnoses such as ADHD, Asperger’s, OCD, ODD, Sensory Integration, Separation Anxiety, Reactive Attachment Disorder or Selective Mutism may benefit from individual treatment. Children suffering from low self-esteem secondary to dyslexia and disgraphia may also be helped by individual therapy.

While individual therapies are not always recommended, our experience has shown that when they are, our staff who work in the building and observe your child daily are in a position to accumulate a broad range of data usable in therapy. When students have therapists who work outside the building, it is our policy to communicate frequently with them, including even daily faxes or emails to them—with parental consent, of course.

Upon request, the Clinical Director can provide a list of experienced and licensed professionals who complement The New School’s professional staff.

Social Skills Groups at NSH
NSH clinicians offer weekly social skills groups to students whose parents request this extra service for an additional fee. The groups help children develop good social interactions and master the skills for making friends and working as a team. An advantage to group work at NSH is the clinicians know the children in a "real life," five days a week setting, not in the context of a professional office one hour a week. In addition, the children know each other in the same “real life” context.

NSH Social Skills groups are NOT intended to replace individual therapy either on or off campus. The work done in NSH Social Skills groups can provide a useful adjunct to individual counseling.

Parent Support
Parents at NSH are given support by clinicians specially trained to help with life’s most challenging and rewarding job: being a parent. Costs for Parent Helper work are included in the tuition and may be reimbursed through one’s health insurance depending upon coverage. Refer to the Parents page of this website for additional information.

Policy Statement
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, program and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.