Stephanie Schurkens, MA, LAC

Anxiety and OCD can show up in many ways, often placing significant demands on individuals and families. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about how to support your child or teen in managing anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), I provide a supportive environment with practical, evidence-based tools to help families navigate these challenges together.

I specialize in working with children, teens, and their families facing anxiety and OCD. I recognize the essential role that parents and caregivers play in helping kids build resilience, and I center my work on partnering with families to strengthen this support. I integrate parents and caregivers directly into the therapeutic process, empowering them with the skills needed to respond effectively to anxiety and OCD. Together, we can develop strategies to reduce anxiety’s grip and foster confidence, flexibility, and lasting change for your child and your family.

Counselor Specializing in Anxiety & OCD

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Empowering kids, teens and families to disempower anxiety.

Areas of Focus

Social Anxiety
Separation Anxiety
General Anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic Attacks
Selective Mutism

Treatment Approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Family Therapy
SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)

Signs your child may be struggling with anxiety…

Your child or teen worries excessively.
You provide constant reassurance to your child or teen but it never seems like enough.
Your family has had to rearrange schedules or normal daily behavior to avoid your child or teen feeling distress.
Your child or teen is avoiding certain situations or places that trigger anxiety, such as school, social gatherings, or activities they used to enjoy.
Your child or teen is engaging in repetitive behaviors or rituals (like checking locks or washing hands) due to anxiety.
Your child or teen is putting excessive pressure on themselves to be perfect or avoiding tasks for fear of not doing them perfectly.
Your child or teen has a difficult time being away from you in an age-appropriate way (for example sleeping on their own or being in a different room in the house than you).

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Contact

Phone
(928) 224-8318

Email
stephanie@marigoldcounselingco.com

Addressing parental accommodation is a crucial part of treating child and teen anxiety disorders. ✨

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✨High emotionality and challenging behaviors are hard to witness and withstand as parents. If you have an anxious child, chances are you have been dealing with this for a while and you’re feeling exhausted.

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First let me say that almost all parents accommodate. Good, international and loving parents accommodate, for a variety of reasons, often to just get through the day.

Accommodations are not a “good” or “bad” thing, but a patt

Worry follows a predictable pattern that sounds something like this:

“What if [terrible thing] happens” + “I can’t handle that”.

Anyone who is anxious knows that their brain is very good at coming up with a variety of

Effective treatment for anxiety must look at the factors that maintain it. Asking why a symptom presented itself, or searching for the “root cause” of anxiety falls short at changing behavior or teaching necessary skills. ✨

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The thing about anxiety is that it wants us to avoid whatever is worrying us or freaking us out. The problem is, the more kids avoid what anxiety doesn’t like, the more anxiety is in charge and the smaller their world becomes.

Accepting that

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Accommodations are the key target for transforming childhood anxiety.

When parents engage in accommodations to reduce their child’s anxiety, it gives the message “I don’t think you can handle this either”.

The goal is to re

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