About
About Exhilarate Mental Wellness
A warm, playful therapy space where children, teens, and families can feel understood, supported, and ready to grow.
Therapy Designed for Real Family Life
Exhilarate Mental Wellness was created to give children, teens, and families a therapy experience that feels warm, supportive and intentionally designed for real life. Amanda Baird, LCSW, RPT, QS, combines clinical training with a playful, practical approach that helps young people express feelings, build confidence, work through hard experiences and feel more connected to the people who love them.
Here, therapy is not about forcing kids to “talk like adults” because, shockingly, children are not tiny accountants with emotional spreadsheets. It is about meeting them where they are, using play, creativity, connection and evidence-informed care to support healing, growth and stronger family relationships.
- A welcoming therapy space created especially for children, teens, and families
- Play-based and creative approaches that help kids express what words cannot always say
- Practical support for parents who want to better understand and help their child
Meet Amanda
Choosing a therapist for your child is a big decision and it is completely normal to wonder who will be sitting across from your family. Get to know Amanda Baird, the therapist behind Exhilarate Mental Wellness, beyond the titles, credentials and all the professional alphabet soup that somehow becomes part of healthcare.
Amanda brings warmth, humor, clinical experience and a deep respect for each child’s unique personality into the therapy process. Her work is centered on helping children and teens feel safe, understood and supported while giving parents a collaborative place to ask questions, share concerns and learn tools that actually fit real family life.
Meet Foxworth
Foxworth is more than a cute little fox hanging around the site, although yes, he is absolutely pulling his weight in the charm department. He helps represent the kind of therapy space Amanda works to create: calm, welcoming, playful and safe enough for children to take their time.
For many children, starting therapy can feel new, confusing or even a little scary. Foxworth helps soften that first step by bringing a sense of comfort and familiarity to the experience. He reminds kids that they do not have to have everything figured out before they begin. They can be curious, cautious, silly, quiet, brave or all of those things in the same five minutes.
Services I Provide
Every child and family comes to therapy with their own story, needs, strengths and stressors. Exhilarate Mental Wellness offers services designed to support children, tweens, teens, parents and families through challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, big feelings, communication struggles, life transitions and the everyday chaos of being human in a world that keeps acting like everyone should have a five-year plan.
The services I provide are built around connection, creativity and practical support. Whether your child needs a space to express what they cannot yet explain, your teen needs support navigating adolescence or your family needs help reconnecting through hard moments, therapy is tailored to meet you where you are and help you move forward with more confidence, understanding and hope.
- Child Therapy
- Tweens & Teens Therapy
- Parent Coaching
- Online Therapy
