Parent coaching is exactly what it sounds like: sessions for you, focused on your child, without your child in the room. I offer it two ways. Some parents come to me on their own, when their kid isn't in therapy and doesn't necessarily need to be. Others are parents of children I already see, where the work goes faster because we're both watching the same kid from different angles.

We usually end up in three places. What your child brings up in you — the reactions that feel outsized, the moments you recognize your own childhood in the room, the guilt afterward. What you're actually reinforcing — a clear-eyed look at your rewards and consequences, why the chart stopped working, and what to do instead of escalating. How to help your child regulate — the concrete skill of staying steady enough that your calm becomes something they can borrow, which is how kids learn regulation in the first place.

This isn't a parenting class and I'm not going to hand you a script. It's collaborative, it's specific to your kid and your household, and it starts from the assumption that you know your child better than I do.