Child & Young Adult Psychologist, Merk Behavioral Health

Your child's personalized
behavioral healthcare

Welcome to Merk Child & Family Behavioral Health LLC.

Focused on providing evidence-based therapy services to individuals aged 2-25 years. Serving Nevada and Colorado through telehealth therapy. Dr. Merk is a licensed psychologist who provides behavioral healthcare to children, adolescents and young adults. Individual and family therapy is available with current openings. Dr. Merk also provides trainings to therapists and school-based professionals on working with youth with anxiety, behavior problems, trauma, and related problems. Your child’s behavioral healthcare should be unique to their needs and not a cookie cutter solution. Dr. Merk works collaboratively with families to understand and then thoughtfully craft and implement therapy interventions. Dr. Merk seriously loves seeing your child become the best version of themselves.

Testimonial

“Before we found Dr. Merk, my then 4-year-old daughter wasn’t speaking to anyone. Not teachers, not friends, not even close family members. When someone talked to her, she would freeze and look away. In group settings, her frustration and anxiety would spike, and she’d cling to me as if I were the only safe place in the room. As a parent, it was heartbreaking to watch her want to connect but be completely unable to break through that wall.

Dr. Merk changed everything for our family.

She worked with my husband and I on psychoeducation to give us the tools to gradually expose C to speaking. But what truly set Dr. Merk apart was her understanding that selective mutism isn’t treated only in a therapist’s office. It’s treated everywhere a child lives, learns, and plays. She provided psychoeducation not only to us as parents but also to our extended family, friends, C’s teacher, and even her classmates. She helped the people in C’s world understand what selective mutism actually is, what it isn’t, and how to create environments where C felt safe enough to use her voice.

Slowly, we started seeing small wins: a whisper to Grandma, a one-word response to a cashier, and then spoken words to a class.

C continues to overcome selective mutism, and I credit Dr. Merk’s collaborative approach for getting us here. She helped equip an entire community to support our daughter. We are forever grateful.

-K”

Common Treatment Areas:

Anxiety
Autism
Selective Mutism and Social Phobia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Difficulty Following Instructions/Accepting Decisions
Depression
School-Based Behavioral and Academic Problems
Bedtime Problems and Sleep Disorders
Sibling Relationships
Phobic Concerns
Habits (hair pulling, skin picking, fingernail biting, and thumb sucking)
Difficulties with adjustment (Relocation, divorce, loss, significant changes in the family)
Trauma
ADHD
Adoption and Blended Families

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About Dr. Merk

Dr. Rachele Merk received her doctorate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas where she specialized in training in child and adolescent mental health. She received further specialization at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a trained Parent-Child Interaction Provider, which is a specialized treatment for improving relationships between children and parents. She is located in the Western Slope of Colorado but spent training years and the first 7 years as a psychologist in Las Vegas. She loves the change of being in Colorado, where she enjoys spending time outside with her family with two young kids.

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