Not quite therapy, parent coaching focuses on education, learning research-based skills, and creating an individualized plan that works for your family to take on challenges with effective tools. I began offering parent coaching when I noticed that many of the anxiety-based behaviors that were bringing children and teens into my office - sleep challenges, school avoidance, tantrums, separation, shyness, high sensitivity, social challenges, intense fears and worries - could be successfully addressed at home. My trial period of suggesting parents and I first work together before bringing their child into my office yielded an outcome of 100% of parents telling me that the issues had resolved.

Anxiety impacts the entire family unit. When parents learn the core of what is driving the anxiety and how to undo the tangled web it’s created, there’s relief on a deep, systemic level. Parents are equipped with a new skillset to move forward with and children are given the gift of more regulated, confident, and happy parents.