Parent therapy provides a structured space for caregivers to process stress, develop practical strategies, and strengthen emotional resilience. Sessions focus on helping you respond more confidently to your child’s needs while also addressing your own wellbeing. Parent sessions can stand alone or take place alongside your child’s therapy.

No. Parent sessions can be helpful whether or not your child is currently in therapy. Some parents seek support independently to address stress, communication challenges, or uncertainty about how to navigate a particular season of parenting. Others participate alongside their child’s therapy to reinforce progress and maintain consistency at home.

While parent support sessions may focus on your experiences and emotional wellbeing, the goals are centered around your role as a caregiver. Sessions often address parenting strategies, communication patterns, emotional regulation within the family system, and supporting your child’s development.

In contrast, traditional individual therapy typically focuses primarily on the client’s personal mental health concerns outside of a parenting context. Parent therapy is intentionally structured around strengthening both you and your family dynamic.

Parents of younger children often come to us when they are navigating frequent meltdowns, separation anxiety, school refusal, bedtime struggles, or difficulty with transitions. Some families are adjusting to a new diagnosis, behavioral concerns at school, or challenges with emotional regulation at home.

Parent sessions focus on creating consistent responses to big emotions, strengthening structure and routines, and reinforcing skills in ways that support healthy development.

Middle school often brings shifting peer dynamics, increased academic pressure, and noticeable mood changes. Parents may seek support when their child becomes more withdrawn, reactive, anxious about school, or resistant to limits. We help caregivers strengthen communication, set clear and developmentally appropriate boundaries, support executive functioning skills, and stay steady during a stage that can feel unpredictable.

Parents of high school students frequently reach out when they are navigating anxiety around academics, college preparation stress, increasing conflict at home, social struggles, or concerns about motivation and independence.

Parent therapy can help you balance guidance with autonomy, reduce power struggles, support emotional regulation, and maintain connection while preparing your teen for greater independence.

Yes. Parents of young adults often come to us when they are feeling anxious about their young adult leaving for college, struggling with independence, facing academic or work challenges, or returning home after a difficult transition.

Sessions may focus on redefining boundaries, maintaining healthy connection without over-functioning, and managing the emotional shift that comes with launching a young adult into greater autonomy.

Feeling overwhelmed does not mean you are failing — it often means you have been carrying a great deal for a long time. Parent therapy provides space to process stress, build emotional resilience, and create sustainable strategies so you feel more grounded and supported.