Ledette Gambini
She | Her
LMFT, RPT™, EMDR Trained
ledette@aplacetobetherapy.com

www.ledettegambinitherapy.com

Ledette has over ten years experience in both the agency and private practice setting working with children, adolescents and adults. Ledette’s main area of focus has been helping client’s heal from early life trauma. She is an adoptive mother and has focused much of her work on supporting foster and adoptive families. 

Ledette holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology with  a specialization in Child Studies from Antioch University. Ledette is also a Registered Play Therapist and trained in EMDR.

Children & Adolescents(3-18)
Ledette combines Child Centered Play Therapy, EMDR and Sandtray in her work with children and adolescents to identify and process early traumatic experiences. Her work is done in a playful, age appropriate and child lead way and involves parents to ensure the child is supported both in therapy and at home. Even the scariest of experiences can be processed by children and adolescents to lessen the effects of trauma as they grow. Issues Ledette typically works with include:

• Adoption/foster care related trauma

• Birth and early developmental trauma

• Medical trauma

• Abuse and neglect

• Emotional/Behavioral Dysregulation

• Anxiety

• Fears and phobias

• Dissociation

• Grief and Loss

Adults
Ledette works collaboratively with adults to help identify and process life experiences and heal the trauma that may be resulting in physical, mental or emotional distress.  Issues Ledette typically works with include:

• Complex Trauma/PTSD

• Grief and Loss

• Adoption/foster care related trauma

• Attachment Trauma

• Dissociation across the lifespan

Parenting Support

Trauma
Ledette understands that parenting children who have experienced trauma requires a different approach in order to build safe attachments and felt safety for the child. Ledette supports parents by providing trauma informed parenting psycho education and parenting strategies.

Pre & Post Adoption Support
Ledette has extensive experience working with foster and adoption related issues. She uses a trauma informed and neurodevelopmental lens in all of her work, and understands how in utero and early developmental trauma affect children in many areas of their life. As a former foster parent and now an adoptive mom, She further understands how close relationships are created through a sense of safety and trust.

Ledette supports foster and adoptive parents in the following areas: 

• Parenting with trauma in mind

• Understanding their own triggers

• Creating safety and healthy attachments

• Talking to their children about their first families and adoption stories

• Navigating and building relationships with birth families.