For Parents

Parents often feel isolated- unsure of what to do next or who to talk to about their daily challenges. Parent Coaching is helping someone become clear on their own parenting goals through listening, asking powerful questions, teaching skills, and providing support to bring about change.

Research shows that parent coaching reduces parental stress, gives important resources, and helps parents learn and use their strengths and come to appreciate themselves and their children.

Parent coaching promotes strategies that really work. Parents examine what old parental mindsets undermine their own success and work to set up a clear plan to address every concern.

I am very attuned to the many challenges of parenting. I can help guide you to have appropriate expectations of your child through education about their developmental stage and developing skills for effective communication.

SPACE (Supporting Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)

SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. It was developed at the Yale Child Study Center by Dr. Eli Lebowitz and is a systematic program that teaches parents how to change their own behavior so that they can best support and respond to their child’s anxiety. By reducing an “accommodating” approach to a child’s anxiety, parents are able to engage in a manner that ultimately enhances the child’s ability to cope with anxious thoughts and feelings.

Although children do not attend SPACE sessions, they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful, children feel less anxious and function better following treatment. Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include: separation anxiety, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, fears and phobias, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

To learn more: https://www.spacetreatment.net/