Parenting Support: Reconnect With the Parent You Are
Learn to notice, connect, respond, and grow with your child,
Parenting can bring deep love alongside moments that feel overwhelming or unfamiliar in yourself. From pregnancy and early parenthood to raising young children, many parents notice reactions that don’t line up with the parent they want to be.
This is not skills based coaching or behavior management. Parenting oriented therapy focuses on what’s happening underneath the moment. When a child is distressed, a parent’s nervous system is often activated too, shaped by past experiences and emotional history. By slowing down and increasing awareness without judgment, parents can respond with more steadiness, flexibility, and care for both themselves and their children.
This work is closely connected to my adult therapy practice. The same approach that supports adults with anxiety, burnout, and life transitions also helps parents stay grounded during emotionally intense moments at home. Over time, parents reconnect with their values and access a more authentic way of showing up in everyday family life.
Why Parents Struggle With Reactivity (And Why It Matters)
Young children can’t calm themselves alone. They lean on you, their parent, to help them settle. Their nervous system sends urgent signals, and yours answers, often before you even realize it.
The way you respond is shaped by your own childhood. The experiences you carry quietly color how you show up for your child. Simply noticing how your nervous system and your child’s connect can begin an important shift. Mindful awareness eases shame and gives you space to make choices that feel thoughtful and intentional.
How Therapy Helps You Reduce Reactivity and Build Connection
My approach combines humanistic and existential therapy, psychoeducation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help parents stay grounded and connected. We will look into your history, patterns, and emotional story at a pace that encourages honesty, curiosity, and feeling fully seen. You will learn how co-regulation works between you and your child, how children develop self-regulation over time, and how your own regulation shapes your responses, which will bring clarity to moments that once felt confusing or filled with shame.
Through ACT, you will notice and allow activation in your body without being overwhelmed. You can step out of old patterns and create space between what comes up inside you and how you choose to act. You will reconnect with the values that guide the parent you want to be. As your work progresses, I can also connect you with parenting coaches for practical, value-driven strategies to support your growth outside the therapy room.
What This Work Feels Like
Parenting therapy provides a grounded, real space where you can:
Be honest about what parenting has brought up for you,
Stop worrying about how you appear and simply explore your experience,
Understand how your inner world and your child’s inner world affect the relationship,
Build emotional awareness, steadiness, and clarity,
Reconnect with your deeper values and sense of choice.
Some sessions are more structured and practical, while others are open and exploratory. The process is always shaped by what you need, not by a formula.
You don’t need to be a different parent. The right support can help you connect with the parent you already are, even when things feel overwhelming. Your child gains from your presence, not from your perfection. You also need a space where you can relax and regain your clarity.
If you want support with reducing reactivity, reconnecting with yourself, and parenting with more calm, steadiness, and intention aligned with your values, I am here to help.
