Child & Family Therapy
and
Parent Coaching
My approach
Are you looking for support with a young child?
Are your child’s behaviors causing you and your family stress?
Are you struggles to navigate a relationship with an adult child?
Maybe you are seeking connection with your teen?
If so, family therapy can be a helpful path for strengthening connection
I work with children as young as three and their families. Sessions are often a blend of individual, family, and parent coaching.
I have worked with young children and their families for over 5 years and have seen, firsthand, the importance and benefits of addressing challenges within a family system. As a parent myself, I know the challenges, stress, and non-stop demands of parenting. In sessions, I bring my own personal experience along with my clinical training.
Being a parent is one of the most difficult and important jobs we can have. Being a child in a culture that is adult centered and structured can be extremely difficult. When we add in additional targeted cultural locations (neurodiversity, race, ethnicity, gender - to name a few) the challenges are compounded.
In family therapy sessions, I focus on cultivating felt safety, increased connection, and understanding for everyone involved. This includes deep self-reflection for parents to identify and work through their own childhood wounds and experiences, to see how their past is informing their present. I look at the presenting challenge and together we expand our lens to see all the interacting components and barriers to being together in a safe, nurturing, and connected way.
“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of love, safety, and stability in which children of many unpredictable kinds can flourish.” - Alison Gopnik, The Gardener and the Carpenter