Taylor Peterson

Mental Health Therapist

LMSW

Taylor takes a strengths-based, client-centered approach that’s collaborative, culturally sensitive and non-judgmental. Taylor uses cognitive behavior therapy, solution focused therapy, expressive arts therapy, play therapy, EMDR, and motivational interviewing to help clients achieve their goals.

Modalities

Individuals

Specialties

ADHD
Anger
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bisexual Issues
Borderline Personality (BPD)
Child or Adolescent
Coping Skills

Depression
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Impulse Control Disorders
Lesbian Issues
LGBTQ+ Issues
Mood Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive
Oppositional Defiance

Peer Relationships
Personality Disorders
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Stress
Thinking Disorders
Trauma and PTSD

ADHD
Anger
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bisexual Issues
Borderline Personality (BPD)
Child or Adolescent
Coping Skills
Depression
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Impulse Control Disorders
Lesbian Issues
LGBTQ+ Issues
Mood Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive
Oppositional Defiance
Peer Relationships
Personality Disorders
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Stress
Thinking Disorders
Trauma and PTSD

Treatments

Adlerian
Art Therapy
Attachment-based
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Culturally Sensitive

Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness-Based Intervention
Motivational Interviewing

Person-Centered
Play Therapy
Sandplay
Strength-Based
Trauma Focused

Adlerian
Art Therapy
Attachment-based
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Culturally Sensitive
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness-Based Intervention
Motivational Interviewing
Person-Centered
Play Therapy
Sandplay
Strength-Based
Trauma Focused

Meet Taylor Peterson

Locations

Waterloo

Insurance Accepted

Iowa Medicaid
HAWKI
Amerigroup / Wellpoint
Iowa Total Care
Molina
United Healthcare
UMR
Wellmark BCBS
Cigna
Optum VA
Health Partners
Medica
Midland’s Choice
Crime Victims Compensation Funding of Iowa
Private Pay
County Social Services Funding (Grundy, Black Hawk, Allamakee, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Tama, Winneshiek counties)
SED Funding (Linn County residents only)
MHDD Funding (Linn County residents only)

Clients

Adolescents / Teenagers (13 to 19)
Adults

I often use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Play Therapy in my practice. In your first session, we’ll explore what brought you to therapy and then decide the most appropriate ways to help you make progress. With CBT, we’ll look at how your thoughts affect your emotions and experience. During treatment, I’ll help you learn how to push back against those thoughts to change your feelings for the better. With Play therapy, we will allow the client to explore/express feelings and emotions through healthy play.

I put high importance on the therapeutic relationship I build with clients and providing a safe, supportive, and trusting therapeutic space.

While working with children (6+), teens, and adults, I take on a strength based, client-centered approach that’s collaborative, culturally sensitive and non-judgmental. I use cognitive behavior therapy, solution focused therapy, arts therapy, play therapy, EMDR and motivational interviewing to help clients achieve their goals.

Taylor is open to working with clients from all communities we serve in alignment with Heart and Solutions’ Commitment to Inclusion.
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Taylor is especially passionate about working with the following communities and issues: Christian, secular/non-religious, LGBQ identities, mixed race, Native Americans

Taylor’s Latest Mental Health Tips

Improving the Parent-Child Relationship

Attachment is the way in which children come to trust, understand and thrive in their world. The parent-child attachment is one of the most important attachments in a child’s life. One approach to help improve the parent-child relationship is called Theraplay.