Christy Tadros is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and the Founder of WestCoast Therapy and Wellness, a San Francisco based mental health clinic that is devoted to supporting adults, children and families in leading healthy and meaningful lives. Her areas of expertise include working with children with selective mutism, ADHD, ODD, social anxiety, OCD, autism, and learning and developmental difficulties. She has helped develop and co-led several intensive, therapeutic programs for young children and teenagers with selective mutism, anxiety and ADHD. She also works with adults struggling with relationship issues, acculturation challenges, life transitions, anxiety, and body image/food challenges. Christy believes that in order to make sustainable change, it often takes a village - caregivers, educators and adults in a child’s life are a part of the therapeutic process. She is an internationally certified Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Level 1 Trainer. PCIT is a family based approach for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders that emphasizes on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship. She also has worked in general and special education settings to implement Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT), bringing empirically-supported skills to teachers to help them prevent and manage disruptive behaviors that interfere with learning.Outside of her passion for working with her individual clients, Christy provides consultation and workshops for companies seeking to support the mental health of their employees. She teaches research-based strategies to foster mindfulness, stress-management and effective communication. Each workshop is uniquely designed to meet the needs of, and align with the values of your organization. Christy creates a collective experience of learning together, leaving employees feeling empowered, less burnt out and with a greater sense of purpose in their work.Christy also taught yoga for a few years at a donation-based yoga studio. She loves to stay active, whether it’s hiking in the Marin Headlands or running marathons in the redwoods of California.