Parenting

I offer coaching in “stepped up” parenting when typical parenting approaches have been ineffective for a family’s sensitive, intense or anxious child. The primary parenting model I use is the Nurtured Heart Approach®, which is a relationship-based method that works to bring forth children’s greatness through the right balance of clear boundaries, energizing positive behaviors, and refusal to energize negative behavior. While I also incorporate lessons learned from collaborative problem solving, the Barkley method and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), I’ve found NHA to be particularly effective and transformative. To specifically address childhood anxiety disorders, I offer SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a program in which a child’s anxiety is treated indirectly through parent sessions.