Every child deserves to be heard: introducing our new Outpatient Therapy Center.

If you have ever tried to get mental health support for a child in southwestern Pennsylvania, you already know how hard it can be. The waitlists are long. The options are limited. And in the meantime, families do their best — navigating school struggles, behavioral changes, emotional outbursts, and worry, often without a roadmap.

At Every Child, we have spent decades walking alongside children and families through some of the hardest moments of their lives — through foster care and adoption, through family crisis, through the kind of instability that makes growing up feel impossible. And over and over again, we heard the same thing: “We needed help sooner. We couldn’t find anyone who had room for us.”

We listened. And now, we’re doing something about it.

The need is real — and it’s growing

Childhood is not a protected space, free from stress and struggle. For many children in our region, it is the beginning of a mental health journey that, without the right support, can shape the rest of their lives.

Approximately one in five children will experience a mental health condition before reaching adulthood. Half of all lifetime mental health conditions begin before age 14. And access to care — especially affordable, community-based care designed with children and families in mind — has not kept pace with the need.

In southwestern Pennsylvania, families face real barriers: provider shortages, long wait times, limited insurance coverage, and services that weren’t built around how families actually live. We know this not because of statistics alone, but because these are the families we work with every single day.

Who we are, and why this matters

Every Child has provided foster care, adoption, and family preservation services in this region for decades. Our Family Based Mental Health program delivers intensive, in-home support to families facing serious emotional and behavioral challenges — and it works. But we also recognized something important: not every family needs that level of intensity. And families who complete intensive services often find themselves without a next step, caught between stepping down from structured support and navigating long waitlists at community providers.

That gap is real, and it has real consequences. A child who has made meaningful progress in treatment shouldn’t have to start over — or worse, go without care — simply because the right service wasn’t available at the right time.

Our new Outpatient Therapy Center is designed to fill that gap. It extends the continuum of care we already provide and opens the door to families and individuals across our community who need accessible, high-quality mental health support.

What our Outpatient Therapy Center offers

Our Outpatient Therapy Center provides compassionate, evidence-based mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and families. We serve individuals across the lifespan — beginning as young as age 2 through adulthood — with a focus on creating a safe, collaborative, and empowering experience for every person we work with.

Services include:

• Individual therapy. One-on-one sessions with a licensed clinician, tailored to each person’s strengths, goals, developmental level, and clinical needs.

• Family therapy. Because healing rarely happens in isolation. We work with families together, strengthening relationships and communication so that home can be a source of support.

• Caregiver support and parent coaching. Practical, compassionate guidance for the adults doing the hard work of raising children — especially those navigating behavioral challenges, big emotions, or complex family dynamics.

• Group therapy. Opportunities to build connection, develop coping skills, and recognize that you are not alone in what you’re going through.
  

We offer both in-person and telehealth appointments, because access to care should fit your life — not the other way around.

Our approach: trauma-informed, neuroaffirming, and built around you

Our clinical team is committed to trauma-informed and neuroaffirming care — which means we recognize that every person’s history, neurology, and lived experience shapes who they are and how they engage with the world. We don’t work from a one-size-fits-all model. We work from curiosity, respect, and a genuine belief that every person has strengths worth building on.

We support individuals and families navigating a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, trauma, behavioral challenges, emotional regulation, autism, ADHD, executive functioning difficulties, family stress, relationship challenges, and life transitions.

Our clinicians also collaborate closely with caregivers, schools, and other support systems in a client’s life — because the best outcomes happen when everyone is working together.

What we believe

We believe that asking for help is an act of strength — for children and for the parents, caregivers, and adults who show up for them. We believe that mental health is not a footnote to a person’s wellbeing; it is central to it. And we believe that where someone grows up, or what their family looks like, or what they’ve already been through, should never determine whether they have access to quality care.

Every child deserves to be heard. Every family deserves support. And every community is stronger when its people have the tools they need to thrive.

We’re here when you’re ready

If you or someone you love is struggling — whether that’s a child navigating big emotions, a teenager facing anxiety, a family in the middle of a hard season, or an adult ready to do some work of their own — we want you to know that support is available, and it is closer than you might think.

Our Outpatient Therapy Center is now accepting referrals. To learn more or get connected, reach out to our team. We’re glad you found us.

To schedule or ask questions, contact: ssmigiel-maytag@everychildinc.org | 412.665.0600