Parent Support
Here to Listen. Here to Help.
We understand that parenting in today's complex environment is challenging, and those challenges change throughout the lifespan. As a result, we work to support your parenting in two primary ways:
Coaching Sessions: parent-clinician meetings to help you navigate difficult family situations.
Parent Circles: regularly scheduled interactive seminars for school-age parents that are timed to coincide with key developmental milestones.
Coaching Sessions
We can provide personalized, private support as you navigate difficult and emotionally-charged family situations. These include but are not limited to: family conflict; divorce, remarriage and stepfamily relations; substance abuse; sexual or gender ambiguity/dysphoria; parenting a neurodiverse child; loss of a family member/pet/loved one; and experiencing a life-threatening illness.
If you have any questions regarding our parent-clinician meetings, or would like to make an appointment to meet with a clinician, please contact us, and a member of our team will be happy to help.
Parent Circles
Parent Circles are small, interactive seminars designed to provide parents with current evidence-based research and information to support their parenting at three key developmental milestones: the transition to full-day Kindergarten, the transition to adolescence, and the increased independence associated with high school.
To encourage dialogue and foster connection, each circle is limited to no more than 12 parents. Because space is limited, we ask that parents register before attending seminars. For more information or to register, please use the links for each program below.
Kindergarten
Parent Circles
Kindergarten Parent Circles are focused on the transition from home to full-day school, and offer the potential of a mutual support network that will last throughout the elementary school years. Building off current research on socio-emotional development, we address issues ranging from building resilience and a love of learning to getting your child up and out to the bus with fewer meltdowns. There are four facilitated sessions, offered each Fall, after which most circles continue on their own, often for many years.
Middle School
Parent Circles
Middle School Parent Circles, offered to parents of 5th graders and middles schoolers, address the new and different challenges of parenting an adolescent. We discuss the challenges of "acrobatic parenting," the tricky challenge of maintaining limits while simultaneously maintaining the warm connection you've worked so hard to create. Other topics typically include managing technology and screen time, talking about sex and relationships, and avoiding the toxic stress that leads to anxiety for both you and your child. There are three facilitated sessions, typically offered each Fall.
High School
Parent Circles
High School Parent Circles build on the Middle School Circles, and place more emphasis on risk management and helping your teen navigate new experiences. Topics include: "parties" and social situations, alcohol and drugs, sex and relationships, and the college rat race. Helping your child respond in a healthy way to competition and to effectively manage stress and anxiety continue to be major topics of concern. There are two sessions, typically offered in the Spring.