PARENT COACHING
You know your child best. You don’t have to have all the answers.
Parenting can feel especially challenging when your child is struggling with big emotions, anxiety, behavior, or everyday routines. Parent coaching gives you practical, individualized strategies to better understand what's happening and feel more confident in how you respond.
INDIVIDUALIZED PARENT SUPPORT
Practical strategies for the challenges happening at home.
Parent coaching focuses on understanding what may be driving your child’s behavior and identifying changes you can make to support them. Together, we’ll develop strategies that fit your child, your family, and the situations you’re actually navigating day to day.
Big Emotions
Regulation · Frustration · Anger · Coping Skills
Routines + Structure
Transitions · Autonomy · Consistency · Daily Routines
Anxiety
Reassurance · Accommodation · Supportive Responses
Behavior
Expectations· Consequences · Follow-through · Reinforcement
Communication
Listening · Validation · Clear Directions · Connection
Parent Confidence
Understanding Behavior · Regulation · Problem Solving · Consistency
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Understand the behavior. Learn what to do next.
Understand
01
We look at what's happening before, during, and after challenging moments to better understand what may be driving your child's behavior.
Respond
02
You'll learn practical ways to communicate, set expectations, reinforce positive behavior, and respond to difficult moment more effectively.
Practice
03
We’ll identify strategies to try between sessions, then adjust them together based on what is and what isn’t working for your family.
Parent Management Training (PMT)
PARENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Parent Management Training (MT) provides parents and caregivers with practical tools to better understand and respond to their child's behavioral and emotional needs. Sessions focus on strengthening positive behaviors, supporting emotional regulation, improving communication, and creating greater consistency at home.
Who participates in treatment?
Parents and caregivers participate in sessions. In most cases, the child does not attend.
Skills taught in session
Positive reinforcement, labeled praise, active ignoring, effective communication, routines and expectations, logical consequences, understanding behaviors, relationship building, and supportive language.
Duration of treatment
45-60 minute sessions. Length of treatment varies based on the needs of the child and family.
SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
PARENT SUPPORT FOR ANXIETY
SPACE is an evidence-based parent treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. The treatment program was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center and has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.
When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment. Some of the main anxiety disorders treated with SPACE are separation anxiety, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, fears and phobias, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The treatment focuses on changes that parents can make to their own behavior, they do not need to make their child change. The two main changes that parents learn to make in SPACE treatment are to respond more supportively to their anxious child and to reduce the accommodations they have been making due to the child symptoms.
Who participates in treatment?
Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions, they are the patients. Parents (and other caregivers) participate in SPACE treatment sessions. In most cases the child or adolescent does not need to attend the treatment sessions.
What occurs during treatment?
Parents who participate in SPACE will learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety (generalized, social, & separation), OCD or related problems.
Duration of treatment
In most cases, treatment is between 12-14 sessions, 45-60 minutes each.
GETTING STARTED
Supports that fit your child and your family.
Parent coaching provides a space to step outside of the difficult moments, understand what’s happening, and develop practical strategies you can feel confident using at home.
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