Personalized Counseling & Collaborative Advocacy

SOS was created around a simple understanding: emotional well-being, family relationships, development, and educational experiences do not exist in separate boxes. Families may need counseling, educational advocacy, or both at different points in their journey. SOS brings these areas of expertise together under one mission while maintaining the distinct professional roles, confidentiality, and boundaries each service requires.

Committed to Empowering Individuals and Families

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Individual Psychological Counseling

Secure virtual counseling from the comfort and privacy of your home. Personalized therapy sessions aimed at addressing mental health challenges and fostering emotional resilience through clinically validated techniques.

Educational Advocacy

Helping parents feel confident navigating school systems, behavior challenges, and family transitions. Providing strategic support to navigate educational systems, ensuring clients' rights are upheld and appropriate accommodations are secured to maximize learning potential.

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Family Consultation & Support

Comprehensive guidance to families to improve communication patterns and develop effective coping strategies amid educational and psychological challenges.

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Meet Our Team

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Dr. Cathleen De Haro

Licensed Psychotherapist

Dr. Cathleen De Haro brings a compassionate, family-centered perspective to her work with individuals, couples, and families. Her doctoral work focused on special needs and family dynamics, providing her with a unique understanding of the ways emotional well-being, development, relationships, parenting, and family systems can intersect.

Her counseling approach is warm, individualized, and supportive, with particular attention to individuals, parents and caregivers, adolescents, couples, and families navigating stress, life transitions, relationship challenges, emotional concerns, parenting, and the complexities that can accompany special needs.

Through convenient telehealth counseling, Dr. DeHaro-Schisler creates a supportive and confidential space where clients can feel heard, explore challenges, strengthen coping and communication skills, improve relationships, and work toward greater emotional well-being and connection.

Specialties

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • Parenting Support

  • Couples Counseling

  • Family Therapy

  • Stress & Burnout

  • Adolescents

  • High Functioning Autism & ADHD (adults and teens)

  • Life Coaching

Dr. Amanda Schisler

Educational Advocate

Educational expertise from someone who understands how schools actually work.

Dr. Amanda Schisler, Ed.D. brings more than 16 years of experience across the educational continuum, including PK-12 public education, university-level teaching and supervision, and public school administration. She holds a Doctor of Education degree and brings an educator's and administrator's understanding of how schools, instruction, assessment, intervention, and educational decision-making operate from the inside. Her advocacy approach combines educational expertise with practical, family-centered guidance. She helps parents understand complex educational information, prepare for meaningful participation in school meetings, identify questions and concerns, and advocate confidently for their child's access, support, and educational success.

Specialties

• IEP Advocacy

• 504 Plans

• Parent Coaching

• Educational Consulting

• School Meeting Representation

• College Disability Support

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