Sera lange, mS, LPC
Therapy for Children, Adolescents, Young Adults & Families
Sera works with children, adolescents, young adults, and families navigating anxiety, self-esteem concerns, difficult experiences, family conflict, life transitions, neurodivergence, and complex trauma.
She is particularly drawn to children and teens whose feelings may be showing up through behavior, withdrawal, worry, anger, perfectionism, shutting down, or difficulty explaining what is happening internally.
Areas of Focus
Children & Adolescents
Young Adults
Play-Based Therapy
Expressive Arts
Complex Trauma
Parental Divorce & Family Conflict
Anxiety
Self-Esteem
Autism, ADHD & Neurodivergence
Emotional Regulation
Life Transitions
Parent & Caregiver Support
When Kids Do Not Have the Words
Children rarely walk into therapy with a perfectly organized explanation of what is wrong.
They communicate through behavior, relationships, play, art, avoidance, anger, worry, humor, silence, and sometimes simply through the ways they interact with the world around them.
Sera takes time to understand the child before trying to change the behavior.
Her goal is to create a space where children and adolescents do not feel judged, rushed, or pressured to talk before they are ready.
Play, Art & Expression
Sera incorporates play, sand tray, art, games, and other expressive approaches so children and adolescents can communicate in ways that feel developmentally natural.
Therapy may help young people identify emotions, process difficult experiences, strengthen coping strategies, develop confidence, improve emotional regulation, and make sense of changes happening within themselves or their families.
For children experiencing parental divorce, family conflict, trauma, or instability, therapy can also offer something especially important: a consistent relationship and space that belongs to them.
Neurodivergent-Affirming Support
Sera also works with autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent clients using an affirming approach that recognizes differences in communication, emotional regulation, sensory experiences, attention, and social connection.
The goal is not to make a child appear more typical.
It is to understand how that individual experiences the world and help them build skills, confidence, regulation, and self-understanding without asking them to become someone else.
Working With Parents
Supporting a child often means supporting the adults who care for them.
When appropriate, Sera collaborates with parents and caregivers to help them better understand what may be underneath their child’s behavior and strengthen connection and support at home.
Sera’s Approach
Sera’s style is warm, genuine, creative, and relationship-based.
She takes time to build trust, learn each client’s personality, and understand what allows that person to feel comfortable and safe.
Her hope is that clients leave therapy with greater self-understanding, confidence, self-compassion, and the experience of having been genuinely seen rather than simply managed.