Therapy For Every Age And Every Stage
Cherry Hill Family Therapy serves children, teens, adults, couples, and families across Cherry Hill, Marlton, and the surrounding communities in Camden and Burlington counties. We offer play therapy, creative and expressive arts therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, and individual therapy for adults, along with clinical and play therapy supervision for fellow therapists. Every service is built around the same principle: meet each person where they are developmentally, not where a textbook says they should be.
Kids Deserve More Than Talk Therapy
Therapy was designed with adults in mind, and for a long time that's how children were treated too. But a five-year-old can't sit in a chair and explain what's bothering them the way a grown-up can. That's why our work with children uses play, creativity, and expressive tools that match how young minds actually process emotions. It's not a watered-down version of adult therapy. It's a completely different approach built for how kids communicate.
A Practice Built Around The Relationship
Most of what brings people to therapy isn't happening in isolation. A child's behavior shifts when the family dynamic shifts. A couple's arguments follow patterns neither person can see from the inside. We focus on what's happening between people, not just within one person, because that's usually where the real work lives. Whether you're coming in alone, as a pair, or as a whole household, we're paying attention to the full picture.
Michelle Codington | Owner & Therapist
Michelle Codington has spent over 30 years working as a clinician, leader, and advocate in the fields of marriage, family, and child therapy. Her career has spanned direct clinical work, organizational leadership, and community building, all grounded in a core belief that lasting change happens when you treat the relationships and dynamics around a person, not just the symptoms in front of you.
That philosophy is what led her to open Cherry Hill Family Therapy. Too often, children get placed in traditional talk therapy that wasn't designed for how they think, feel, or communicate. Teenagers get treated like small adults. Families get one-size-fits-all interventions that miss the real patterns driving the conflict. Michelle built this practice to do things differently, using play therapy, creative and expressive arts, and integrative approaches tailored to how each client actually processes their world.
She holds a License in Marriage and Family Therapy, is a Certified Family Trauma Professional through the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, and is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy. She is also a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Beyond client work, she provides clinical supervision and play therapy supervision for therapists building their own careers in the field.