in person throughout los angeles
online across ca & NJ

Therapy for parenting and co-parenting

Helping moms and dads have a conscious process to become the best parents they can be.

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therapy for parenting issues across CA & NJ

BECAUSE raising happy little humans can be HARD

We can help you connect your past to your present so you can become your best parent self.

There are countless self-help books and instagram “experts” telling you what you should do - but none of them know you, or your child. Maybe the advice isn’t resonating with you, maybe you’ve tried it before and it hasn’t helped, or maybe it’s the advice itself that’s fueling the feeling that you are not enough, that you are not doing this right.

You’re lacking confidence. You’re comparing yourself to others and feeling like you’re coming up short. You worry you yell too much, or don’t set boundaries enough, or that you aren’t fully addressing your child’s emotional needs.

So much is coming up about your own childhood and your relationship to your own family, and it’s all feeling muddled. You can’t find your inner parenting voice through the noise. You’re recognizing you need help unpacking it all so you can show up as the best parent you can be.

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therapist for co-parenting help in los angeles

YOU’RE READY TO:

  • Process and heal wounds from your own childhood and from your relationship with your family

  • Understand how your past impacts your parenting to break the generational cycles of trauma

  • Stop scrolling, searching and comparing

  • Quiet the inner voice that says you’re not doing it right

  • Feel confident as a parent and trust your internal intuition about parenting

  • Learn how to set effective and appropriate boundaries, while holding space for feelings

  • Learn how to parent as part of a team, whether you’re romantically involved with your co-parent or not

how it works

We’re here to help you quiet the noise to find your inner parenting voice.

We understand that parenting, particularly in this time and climate, is hard. We’re here to provide compassionate, effective and personalized parenting support to navigate the expectations and realities of parenthood.

Therapy for parenting issues is focused on helping you become the best parent you can be. We’ll help you understand how your own family and childhood impacts your parenting so you can make conscious choices about what you want to keep, and what you want to leave behind. With a focus on combining insight-oriented and tools-based therapies like psychodynamic, attachment and cognitive behavioral therapy, our therapy seeks to provide practical guidance to create family harmony while helping you connect the dots from your past to your present. 

We believe parenting work has the power to change you, your family system, and future generations. We’ll help you tune in to your own parental instinct and tune out the noise around you. We’ll break down the familial, societal and cultural factors impacting your views on what a parent should be, so you can become the parent you truly want to be.

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co-parenting support

It’s time for you to work together to best support your kids

Even when parents end their spousal partnership, the parenting relationship remains. We offer co-parenting support for those who are navigating parenting together through a separation or divorce. Co-parenting work looks different depending on each family’s unique circumstances, but typically emphasis is on re-establishing boundaries and roles, finding effective ways to parent as a team, and developing healthy and respectful communication (both with each other and your children). If you are struggling with this transition and how to move forward as co-parents, we can help. There are a few formats of how we can work together to support you on your co-parenting journey: 

  • With a traditional therapy structure, we would meet once a week for 50-minute sessions. Ongoing therapy creates space for processing at a consistent, steady pace. This is best for couples who are in the process of separating or recently divorced and looking to fully address this transition and all the changes it entails, both to your personal and parenting relationship. 

  • Intensives offer extended time in the therapeutic process, allowing for rapid results. 3 hour, 1 day and 2 day options are available. Intensive therapy is a great option if you are looking to create a comprehensive co-parenting plan or navigate a specific challenge area or upcoming change. You can learn more about intensive therapy here.

  • Adjunctive co-parenting therapy is a common referral from divorce mediators or other therapists. If your divorce mediator or therapist has encouraged co-parenting therapy as an adjunctive support, we can help. Adjunctive work can occur via ongoing or intensive therapy. 

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Got questions?

  • Yes, as parenting therapy specialists we can help guide you to decisions around how to best manage your child’s challenging behaviors. Our goal is always to help you connect with your own unique parenting approach and perspective, however we understand that sometimes you need some clear advice around different things to try to make an impact for yourself, your child and your family.

  • Co-parenting support can be customized for your unique circumstances. Some parents prefer ongoing weekly therapy to process their separation, establish new roles and boundaries, and come up with a parenting plan. Others may only need one or two sessions to work on a specific issue, such as telling their kids about the separation or changes to their co-parenting plan.

    If you are interested in intensive therapy options to address co-parenting issues or to work with us to create an extensive co-parenting plan in conjunction with your mediation process, please click here to learn more.

  • You can expect my full presence in our sessions. For ongoing weekly therapy, my clients bring in whatever is on their mind, or challenges and reflections that have come up in the past week. I often encourage parents to bring in recent arguments or areas of conflict or misalignment that are occurring (either with each other or their children) so we can build more effective communication skills. I can be more directive in parenting therapy, pointing out patterns, interrupting and redirecting when necessary to improve communication.

    If there is a specific issue parents or co-parents are hoping to address, therapy sessions can be more structured and focused on solutions and skill building.

  • Our goal is to help you tune into your own parenting instincts. What works for one parent or family might not work for another, so we do not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. However, we will provide guidance and advice from different techniques and perspectives that you can try in order to see what resonates with you and your family, gain confidence and skills, and begin trusting your own intuition.

  • You can reach out to me and our team by completing our online form here.

WE’RE HERE FOR YOU

The journey to family harmony starts with a phone call.