Parent support sessions are designed to help parents respond to their child or teen with more clarity, confidence, and consistency. My approach balances emotional understanding with structure, limits, boundaries, and developmentally appropriate consequences. The goal is not to over-focus on every feeling or remove every discomfort, but to help parents support their child’s emotional experience while also building resilience, responsibility, flexibility, and confidence in the real world.

Parent support may help if you are:

• Struggling to set limits, rules, or consequences consistently
• Feeling unsure how to balance warmth with authority
• Wanting to support your child’s emotions without reinforcing avoidance or helplessness
• Noticing patterns from your own upbringing showing up in your parenting
• Feeling reactive, guilty, overwhelmed, or overly responsible for your child’s emotions
• Navigating conflict, defiance, anxiety, school stress, or family transitions
• Wanting to build your child’s resilience, accountability, emotional regulation, and confidence

What we work on:

In parent support sessions, we explore parenting patterns, communication, boundaries, and how you respond when your child is upset, anxious, defiant, or overwhelmed. We look at what happens in moments of stress or conflict and how your responses may be shaping your child’s behavior over time.

This work may include breaking old family patterns, holding limits with more steadiness, using appropriate consequences, and staying emotionally present without over-explaining, over-accommodating, rescuing, or removing all discomfort. The goal is to balance empathy with structure so your child can build resilience, emotional regulation, responsibility, and confidence.

Parent support may look different depending on your child’s age and needs. If I am working with your teen individually, parent sessions may be incorporated when clinically appropriate. For parents of younger children, sessions are typically caregiver-focused, with child support included only when it feels clinically appropriate and is a good fit. I do not typically offer child-only therapy.