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Therapy for Any Age

At Mala Child & Family Institute, we provide compassionate, trauma-informed therapy for children, teens, and adults across all stages of life. Whether you’re healing from past trauma, navigating anxiety or depression, going through a major life transition, or exploring your neurodivergent identity, our expert therapists are here to support you. We specialize in relationship-centered care that is neurodiversity-affirming, culturally sensitive, and tailored to your unique needs.

What sets Mala apart is our truly integrated model of care. If you or your child also receive occupational therapy, medication management, family or couples counseling, school advocacy services, or a psychological evaluation with us, all of your providers collaborate behind the scenes. This means you benefit from a coordinated team that shares insights, tracks progress together, and crafts a unified approach to help you thrive.

Our Michigan-based mental health clinics in Ann Arbor, Plymouth, and Farmington Hills offer a welcoming environment where people of all backgrounds feel heard, respected, and empowered. We help clients break intergenerational cycles of trauma, build emotional resilience, and strengthen authentic connections, through individual therapy for children, teens, and adults.

We offer specialized care in:

  • Addiction & Substance Use

  • ADHD & Autism

  • Aging & Life-Stage Transitions

  • anger management

  • ANXIETY & OCD

  • behavioral challenges

  • Body Image & Self-Compassion

  • Chronic Illness & Pain Management

  • DEPRESSION & MOOD ISSUES

  • Eating Disorders

  • grief & Loss

  • Identity Exploration

  • LGBTQIA2S+

  • life transitions

  • Men’s issues

  • Pathological Demand Avoidance

  • PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH

  • Relationship Issues

  • Self-Esteem & Identity Development

  • Sexual Health & Intimacy Issues

  • sleep issues

  • Spirituality & Existential Concerns

  • Survivors of Suicide Loss

  • Suicide PREVENTION

  • toileting issues

  • Trauma & PTSD

  • work, academic, & career stress

    • Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

    • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

    • Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)

    • Motivational Interviewing

    • Play Therapy

    • Parent Coaching

    • Executive Function Coaching

    • Dialectical Behavioral (DBT)

    • Art Therapy

    • Emotion Focused Couples/Family Therapy

    • Gottman Method

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)

    • Psychodynamic Therapy

    • Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

    • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

    • Faith Based Counseling

    • Sandplay

    • Music Therapy

    • Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

    • Trauma-Focused

    • Compassion-Focused

    • Feminist

    • Humanistic

    • Person-Centered

    • Strength Based

    • Culturally-Sensitive

    • Attachment-Based

    • Emotionally-Focused

    • Family Systems

    • Interpersonal

    • Psychoanalytic

    • Neurodiversity Affirming

  • We proudly support homeschooled children and teens across Michigan with therapy, evaluations, and coaching designed to help them thrive, socially, emotionally, and academically. Whether your child is homeschooled due to learning differences, mental health needs, giftedness, or family values, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and culturally sensitive care tailored to your lifestyle.

    To learn more please visit HERE

  • We proudly support children, teens, and adults, across Michigan with trauma-informed care that promotes healing, resilience, and long-term wellness. Whether you're navigating the effects of childhood trauma, complex PTSD, medical trauma, intergenerational wounds, or recent life stressors, our team provides compassionate, evidence-based support.

    Our multidisciplinary approach includes psychotherapy, psychological evaluations, occupational therapy, and medication management—all offered through a lens that is neurodiversity-affirming and culturally sensitive.

    LEARN MORE HERE

  • We proudly support neurodivergent children, teens, and adults across Michigan with therapy, evaluations, occupational therapy, and medication management tailored to the unique ways their brains work. Whether you're navigating ADHD, autism, learning differences, sensory challenges, OCD, or Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), our team meets you with respect, understanding, and evidence-based care.

    At Mala, we don’t view neurodivergence as something to fix—but something to understand and support. Our services are always trauma-informed, strengths-based, and culturally sensitive.

    To learn more, please visit HERE.

  • We proudly serve individuals from historically marginalized communities with culturally sensitive, identity-affirming mental health care. Whether you're navigating intergenerational trauma, racial or religious stress, immigrant family dynamics, or simply seeking a therapist who truly understands your lived experience, Mala is here for you.

    Our diverse, multidisciplinary team offers therapy, evaluations, and medication management through a trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming lens—always honoring your values, heritage, and voice.

    To learn more, please visit HERE.

  • We proudly offer play therapy services to children and families across Michigan, using creative, evidence-based approaches to support emotional growth, healing, and communication. Whether your child is struggling with anxiety, trauma, behavioral challenges, or life transitions, our trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and culturally sensitive therapists use tools like art, sand tray, and pretend play to help them process experiences and build resilience.

    To learn more, please visit HERE.

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From Our Community

  • I am never the one to write a review but Mala has changed my life in a tremendous way that I had to put it on paper. I have been working with anxiety my whole life. After trying multiple healing practices, I was able to work with Antoinette and see significant changes than I have had in my previous experiences. I continue to be impressed by the utilization of both mind and body in their healing practice.

    Shenali G.

  • I cannot say enough good things about our experience here. Kind, loving, supportive. They are experts dealing with kids that are neurodivergent and are so supportive to parents and the whole family. You can tell that they really want to help and CARE. We have been meeting with Christina for over three years. Sometimes it’s weekly, sometimes it’s monthly depending on needs. The flexibility is amazing. My daughter looks forward to talking with her every week and there is a noticeable difference in her after every appointment. We are so thankful for Mala.

    Tiffany K.

  • Overall, I give the Mala Child & Family Institute a five-star rating without hesitation. If you are looking for a mental health specialist who truly cares about their patients and is dedicated to helping them heal, then I would definitely recommend calling. Dr. Raveau is truly one of a kind, and clearly ensures her clinicians are as well.

    Sarah P.

  • Mala has been an absolute game changer for our family. Honestly, being the parent of a neurodivergent child can be lonely and confusing–constantly wondering if you’re doing the right thing. Having people behind you, like the wonderful and compassionate clinicians at Mala, makes it feel you can breathe again–it is a safe place for parents who have kids with special needs. There is no judgment or feeling that your child needs to be “fixed”. They are neurodiversity affirming and advocates for children whose brains work differently.

    Lindsay K.

  • I’ve been a practitioner for almost a decade, and can truly say Mala is a one of a kind clinic. From the moment you walk in the atmosphere is warm, inviting, and light. Coming to therapy for the first time can be a nerve-wracking experience, and Mala has a way of effortlessly putting someone at ease. The clinicians match this energy, and have a gentle and caring approach when working with clients. The group here is truly skilled at what they do, and Dr. Raveau has a large piece in this–lovingly guiding, training, and supporting her team of therapists. I HIGHLY recommend Mala for mental health care for children, teens, adults, & couples!

    Besa M.

  • My son always left here after his mom and I divorced in a better mood. I figured I would give it a shot myself. Happy with that decision and plan to continue here.

    Mike M.

  • Mala Child & Family Institute was a game changer for my family. Everybody that we have ever interacted with here is kind and compassionate. I cannot recommend this place enough.

    The K. Family

  • This practice is amazing to work with and I feel so incredibly safe and seen as an intern at this clinic. Dr. Raveau and the other clinicians are proficient in their field of work. Very calming atmosphere and comforting space to be in. Lucky to be involved!

    Rayna G.

  • I have worked with Dr. Raveau and several others on the team at Mala Child & Family Institute, and I cannot recommend them any higher. I have worked with hundreds of mental health professionals, and it is rare to find people who are both highly skilled and incredibly caring. When I interact with the team at Mala, I walk away feeling seen and known, and I can tell they really know their stuff. They will continue to be my first phone call for any mental health help with children and families.

    Andrew C.

We’re here for you.

Our team of over 30 clinicians includes a vast array of experience, specialties, techniques, and modalities to serve any individual at any stage of life. When you enroll in care at Mala, you’re invited to list any preferred clinicians you’d love to work with, or we will be happy to match you with someone we believe will best suit your needs.

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