Parent Coaching

Parenting a teen who’s receiving DBT — or struggling with emotional intensity in general — can feel overwhelming. Your child is learning new skills, changing how they communicate, and shifting how they handle emotions… and you’re expected to keep up in real time.

Parent coaching offers you a space to catch your breath, ask questions, and build the tools you need to support your child effectively — without guessing or walking on eggshells.

You’ll learn:

• The language and structure of DBT skills

• How to respond during emotional outbursts

• What validation actually looks like (and what it’s not)

• When to coach, when to step back, and when to hold the boundary

Whether your child is in therapy or not, our work together will help you feel more confident, calm, and equipped to handle the hardest moments.

Individual

I work with teens who are navigating big emotions, intense internal experiences, and relational challenges — whether that shows up as shutdown, spiraling, anxiety, anger, or just feeling completely overwhelmed.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you. It’s about slowing down, making sense of what’s going on beneath the surface, and building the skills to respond to life with more intention and less chaos.

My approach is grounded in DBT and trauma-informed care, with a focus on emotional awareness, behavioral change, and skill development. Sessions are structured, collaborative, and always tailored to what you need in that moment — whether that’s problem-solving, practicing a skill, or simply having space to breathe and be heard.

I work best with teens who:

• Feel things deeply and don’t always know what to do with it

• Struggle with self-worth, self-regulation, or feeling “too much”

• Are open to being real, even when it’s hard

My goal is to help you feel more in control of yourself and your life — and to remind you that you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Family

Family sessions are available as a supplement to individual therapy or parent coaching. These sessions offer a structured space to work through communication breakdowns, increase mutual understanding, and practice more effective ways of responding to each other in real time.

I help families:

• Strengthen communication and reduce conflict

• Identify patterns that keep everyone stuck

• Practice validation and boundary-setting skills together

• Shift out of blame cycles and into shared problem-solving

This is not crisis mediation or long-term family therapy. These sessions are short-term, skills-focused, and designed to support progress being made in individual or parent work.

Family sessions are typically recommended on an as-needed basis and are always collaborative — with input from both teen and parent(s) about goals and timing.