Few PMHNP providers today learn psychotherapeutic modalities in their graduate nursing education. In practice, however, they find they need more than medication management expertise when treating children and adolescents. Furthermore, children and adolescents may not yet developmentally possess the insight or language to process maltreatment or psychic wounds. Beginning with defining psychotherapy and its usefulness, this presentation will inform the audience of how psychotherapeutic approaches can be used to provide healing for traumatized children and adolescents. Several modalities will be introduced and highlighted with case studies for discussion.