Think Social Provides:

• Social Thinking therapy for individuals and groups, from elementary school through adulthood.

• Consultations with families

• School Consultations

• Teen Social Hangout Club

• Adult Social/Support Groups

Philosophy

Think Social East Bay is a safe environment for children, teens, and adults to learn social thinking concepts through direct instruction, reasoning, and practice. We practice social thinking concepts and related social skills by participating in community outings. We think social in the bookstores, video stores, grocery stores, restaurants, parks etc. Much of the Social Thinking concepts used are based on the work of Michelle Garcia Winner (www.socialthinking.com), who has pioneered the way we teach social skills to people with social cognitive deficits. Michelle argues for an important and more effective model of Cognitive Behavior Therapy as an alternative to behaviorally based social skill “training” approaches. Social Thinking precedes the social skill!

Shelly Hansen has worked exclusively with children, teens, and adults with social thinking deficits for over five years and trained for three years under the guidance of Michelle Garcia Winner at her social thinking clinic in San Jose, Ca.

Teaching social thinking concepts in and out of the therapy room! We explore and practice social concepts related to negotiating, compromising, prioritizing, planning and executing outings into the community.

Thinking about others, and then adjusting our behavior based on smart guesses about what others are thinking and feeling, are all related to social thinking.