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Dr ElizaBeth Carver, Psy D
Licensed Psychologist
Preschool/Child Specialist



Dr Jonathan Beyer, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
Child/Adolescent/Adult 



Dr Dave Plude, Psy D
Licensed Psychologist
Child/Adolescent/Adult

Preschool
Child and Adolescent Counseling

Preschool, Child and Adolescent Counseling will assist parents developing positive parenting skills that will help improve communication, increase cooperation, and motivate their children.

When put into practice, these skills will assist your children in developing the necessary skills for successful living: forgiveness of others and themselves, sharing, delayed gratification, self-esteem, patience, persistence, respect for others and themselves, cooperation, compassion, confidence and the ability to be happy.

Dr. Elizabeth Carver, Dr. Jonathan Beyer, and Dr Dave Plude offer a wide array of service to help families with their youngest members.  Dr Carver, while treating children and adolescents, also has specialized training in the 3-5 year old age range.  She evaluates and helps children here at APC and at the Fetal Alcohol Diagnostic Program.

Dr Beyer, works with children adolescents and adults, however, has more specialized training in the area child and adolescent behavior problems.  In addition to his assessment and counseling here at APC, he is helping Duluth's Woodland Hills program transition from a corrections facility to becoming a provider of mental health services as well.  

Dr. Plude has specialized training in the areas of child/adolescent attention problems, behavioral problems, as well as anxiety disorders. Dr. Plude is currently working with many of the areas youth, helping children and families set up strategies, to improve attention, reduce the avoidance associated with anxiety, improve behavior, and athletic performance.

"Today we are faced with the challenge of reinventing parenting. Instead of assuming responsibility to mold our children into responsible and successful adults, it is becoming increasingly apparent that our role as parents is only to nurture what is already there.

“Children today are different. They are more in touch with their feelings and thus more self-aware.”
“With this shift in awareness, their needs have changed as well. Every generation moves ahead to solve the problems of the past, but new challenges emerge in making that step.”

John Gray Ph.D. from: Children are from Heaven, (1999)