For parents who love their kids deeply—and are still dreading bedtime, losing it at breakfast, or wondering why everyone else seems to know what they are doing.
Maybe you imagined parenting would be hard.
You did not necessarily imagine it would uncover entire hidden rooms in your nervous system.
Now bedtime is a disaster. Mornings are a hostage negotiation. You dread certain times of day before they even arrive. Your child wants you to play, and you are not entirely sure how. You agree, and then approximately four minutes later your brain starts making a grocery list. Or suddenly folding laundry seems very attractive.
Maybe you have become more controlling than you ever meant to be, and the voice that comes out is harsher than you recognize. Maybe you have gone so permissive that the guilt of what you’re allowing is eating you up inside…but it’s just so much easier than a battle!
Maybe you swing between the two and then lie awake wondering which version of you did the most damage.
You may be getting criticized by your spouse, second-guessed by family, judged by strangers, or quietly wondering whether everyone can tell you have no idea what you are doing.
You are not broken. (I promise.)
You are overwhelmed.
And you do not have to wait for weekly therapy to slowly inch toward relief when your family needs something to shift now.
Parenting can bring up feelings you did not expect—and reactions that can surprise you.
Sometimes your child’s needs touch places in you that do not feel logical.
Their crying might send you into a panic. Their defiance might trigger your own inner Hulk. Their need for closeness may leave you feeling trapped. Their big feelings may bring up anger, shutdown, urgency, guilt, helplessness, or a fierce need to make everything stop immediately.
That does not mean you are a bad parent.
It means your nervous system is doing what nervous systems do when something feels too big, too familiar, too chaotic, or too much. We do not have to excavate every childhood memory in order to work with that. We can start with what is happening right now: in your body, your thoughts, your reactions, your relationships, and the moments you most dread.
Support that is practical, relational,
and not weirdly performative
This work is for parents who want insight, yes—but also want to know what to do at 6:15 p.m. when everyone is hungry, overstimulated, and the wrong socks have apparently ruined civilization.
Together, we can explore:
what your child may be communicating beneath behavior that looks defiant, clingy, explosive, avoidant, or “too much”
why certain parenting moments hit your nervous system so hard
how to find steadiness without becoming rigid or checked out
attachment and nervous-system principles that give you firmer ground beneath your feet
how play supports connection, regulation, communication, and repair — and when not to play
what play can look like when it does not come naturally to you
practical ways to approach transitions, bedtime, separation, sibling conflict, school stress, and power struggles
how to repair after hard moments without turning every parenting mistake into your own internal trial with you as your own judge and jury
how to talk with a partner when you are both exhausted and convinced the other person is doing it wrong
We may talk, reflect, notice patterns, practice regulation, role-play difficult moments, or try out new language together.
Yes, role-play. Acting. Pretend. Rehearsal. Very low-stakes theater with no opening night.
And if that sounds like your personal nightmare, we do not have to do it. We will work in ways that fit you.
You do not have to become a perfect playful parent
You do not need to become endlessly calm, endlessly available, endlessly enchanted by Magna-Tiles, or capable of responding to every meltdown with the wisdom of a woodland oracle. Please, no.
We are aiming for authenticity here.
You need enough support to understand what is happening, recognize your own limits sooner, and begin building a relationship with your child that has more connection, more clarity, and less fear.
The goal is not perfection.
The goal is a family life that feels more workable, real, and with some joy threaded through it.
Choose The Level Of Support You Need:
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The Reset Session
3-Hour Half Day - $900
A single three-hour virtual therapy session for parents who need space to step back, understand what is happening, and make a plan for the parts of family life that feel impossible right now.This may be a good fit if bedtime has become a nightly battle, your child’s big feelings are overwhelming the household, you and your partner are stuck in conflict about parenting, or you simply feel like you are losing yourself in the day-to-day pressure.
We will slow down enough to look at the pattern beneath the problem—not just the latest incident—and identify practical next steps that fit your child, your family, and your actual capacity.
A structured break is included, and we can pause whenever needed.
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The Steadier Parent Container
Eight two-hour virtual therapy sessions over four weeks, usually meeting twice each week - $4800
This short-term, steady support is for parents who need more than one conversation to shift entrenched patterns. It gives you time to understand what is happening in real life, try something different, notice what changes, and bring the next hard moment back into the room before you are left alone to make sense of it.Over the month, we can work with your nervous system, your child’s behavior and communication, family rhythms, attachment patterns, play, boundaries, repair, and the places parenting has activated fear, shame, anger, or helplessness.
You do not have to figure out the entire future of your family in four weeks. The point is to create enough traction that home begins to feel less like a constant emergency.
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The Family Rhythm Deep-Dive
Twelve two-hour virtual therapy sessions over four weeks, usually meeting three times each week - $7200
This more immersive option is for parents in a particularly intense season: a child in crisis, escalating family conflict, a major transition, repeated shutdowns or meltdowns, profound exhaustion, or the feeling that the current way of doing things is simply not sustainable.Meeting more often creates continuity. It gives us more opportunity to notice patterns as they happen, practice new responses, work with the emotional charge underneath them, and help you build a steadier relationship with yourself while you are caring for everyone else.
This is not about turning you into a different person. It is about helping you find more choice, more support, and more room to be the parent you want to be.
Reaching out can feel scary
It can feel terrifying to admit that parenting is not going the way you hoped.
You may worry that someone will blame you, judge you, tell you everything is the fault of your childhood, or confirm your worst fear: that you are royally messing it all up and ruining your kids.
That is not what this is.
We will start with what is true now. We will work with care, curiosity, honesty, and practical support. You will not be asked to perform competence, confession, or insight.
You can come in overwhelmed. You can come in skeptical. You can come in with a child-related spreadsheet, a vague sense of dread, or absolutely no idea where to begin.
But if you know you need some help — perfect. I am here to do that.
Ready for family life to feel more workable?
Schedule a consultation for Parent Support Sessions
We will talk about what is happening at home, what kind of support would be most useful, and whether a Reset Session, Steadier Parent Container, or Family Rhythm Deep-Dive is the right fit.
2. If we feel good about it, we will move forward, and schedule the sessions,
and get them in the calendar.
You can expect some forms and paperwork to sign to come your way, and that will need to be completed prior to the first session.
3. If you need time to think about it, do that. And get back to me when you’re ready for real shifts to happen internally, and in your family.
Your Questions, Answered
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This is parent therapy and counseling with a practical, here-and-now focus.
We may talk about your child’s behavior, family routines, play, attachment, conflict, boundaries, or the moments that keep blowing up. We may also look at what happens inside you when those moments hit.
You do not need to arrive with a perfect explanation of the problem. “Bedtime is a nightmare and I dread 4:30 p.m.” is plenty to begin with.
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No.
Sometimes parenting brings up memories or feelings connected to how you were raised, but we do not have to go digging for old stories in order for things to improve.
We can start with what is happening now: what your child is doing, what happens in your body, what thoughts show up, where you get stuck, and what you wish could go differently.
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am not.
Parenting is hard in ways that are often invisible until you are in it. Your child may have real needs. You may be exhausted. Your relationship may be strained. Your own nervous system may be overloaded. More than one thing can be true at the same time.
This work is not about blame. It is about understanding what is happening and finding more workable ways forward.
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Common reasons parents reach out include:
bedtime battles and difficult transitions
meltdowns, big feelings, aggression, shutdowns, or clinginess
feeling too controlling, too permissive, or constantly swinging between the two
not knowing how to play with your child
conflict with a partner about parenting
feeling touched out, overstimulated, resentful, scared, or overwhelmed
sibling conflict
school stress, anxiety, or separation struggles
wanting to better understand a neurodivergent child
feeling like family life has become one long emergency
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The Reset Session is a three-hour virtual parent therapy session with a structured break built in.
We will slow down enough to look at the bigger picture, not just the latest disaster. That may include what your child is communicating, what happens in you during hard moments, what routines are making things worse, what support is missing, and what could realistically shift.
You will leave with more clarity, a few practical next steps, and hopefully at least one less thing you are blaming yourself for.
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Yes.
The three-hour Reset Session includes a planned break, and we can pause anytime you need to eat, stretch, use the restroom, make tea, stare into the middle distance, or regroup after saying something that has been sitting in your chest for six months.
You do not need to push through for the session to be useful.
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No. But it is available.
Sometimes it can be helpful to practice what you might say during a hard moment, how to set a boundary, how to respond when your child is melting down, or how to talk with your partner without both of you ending up in separate emotional zip codes.
This is very low-stakes practice. No acting talent required. And if role-play sounds terrible, we will use another approach.
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Sometimes I will offer practical ideas, language, or ways of looking at a situation differently.
But I am not going to hand you a rigid parenting script that ignores your child, your family, your culture, your capacity, or the fact that children tend to become deeply unreasonable at the exact moment adults are least resourced.
The goal is to help you understand what is happening well enough that you can make choices that fit your real life.
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That is more common than most parents admit.
We can work with the stress, resentment, confusion, and mismatch that can happen when two adults have different instincts, different family histories, different thresholds, or different ideas about what “good parenting” looks like.
Depending on the situation, your partner may be invited into part of the work, or the sessions may stay focused on your own experience and choices.
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You are not alone, and you are not failing.
Many adults were not played with in ways that felt safe, attentive, or enjoyable. Others are simply tired, overstimulated, unsure what to do, or convinced they are “bad at play.”
We can talk about what play actually is, why it matters, and how to find versions of play that are realistic for you. Play does not have to mean spending two hours on the floor pretending to be a dragon named Captain Sparkles unless that genuinely delights you.
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The Reset Session may be a good fit when you need focused help with a particular issue, a difficult transition, a family blow-up, or a pattern that has become impossible to ignore.
The Steadier Parent Container may fit when you want more support over a month to understand what is happening, try new approaches, notice what changes, and get help with the next hard moment before you are left alone to figure it out.
The Family Rhythm Deep-Dive may fit when things feel especially intense or unsustainable and you need more continuity than once-a-week therapy can offer.
We can talk through the options in a consultation.
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If we decide to move forward, I will send a short, straightforward set of forms to complete and sign.
You will receive the information you need about therapy, privacy, payment, scheduling, and emergency support. It will just be organized clearly and without making you earn a merit badge in paperwork first.
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These sessions are private pay.
I can provide a superbill when appropriate, which you may submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement. It is not likely I can offer a diagnosis that will be reimbursable however.
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Toward the end of our work together, we will talk about what support makes sense next.
That might mean ongoing parent therapy, another extended session later, a pause, a different level of support, or bringing in other resources for your child or family.
The goal is not to become a flawless parent in four weeks. It is to help family life feel more workable, more connected, and less like you are constantly bracing for impact.