There is no shortage of advice about how to raise kids. The harder part is figuring out what actually works for your kid, your family, and you—especially when you’re exhausted, worried, disagreeing with your partner, or wondering if you’re getting any of this right.

Sometimes you need practical help with what to do. Sometimes parenting is bringing up things in you that need attention. And sometimes the problem isn’t knowing what to do—it’s figuring out how to do it together.

That’s why I offer several different ways to support parents.

Parent Coaching

When the question is: “What do we do?”

Parent coaching is focused on understanding what’s happening with your child and finding practical ways to respond. We can talk through challenging behaviors, communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, school struggles, or those situations where everything you've tried seems to make things worse.

The goal isn't to give you a list of parenting rules to follow. It's to help you understand your child, think differently about what may be driving the behavior, and develop strategies that make sense for your family.

Parent coaching can be especially helpful when you and your co-parent are generally on the same page but need support figuring out what to try next and how to follow through.

Individual Therapy for Parents

Because you’re a whole person—not just a parent.

Parenting has a way of touching just about everything: your identity, relationships, stress level, confidence, childhood experiences, and ideas about the kind of parent you thought you would be.

Individual therapy gives you a place where the focus gets to be on you. Parenting can absolutely be part of our work, but it doesn't have to be the only part. We can explore anxiety, overwhelm, relationships, boundaries, family-of-origin patterns, life transitions, or whatever else is affecting how you feel and function.

Sometimes supporting your family starts with having a space where you don't have to take care of anyone else.

Parenting-Focused Couples Therapy

Sometimes you agree that something needs to change. You just don't agree on what—or how.

Parent coaching can help you figure out strategies to use with your kids. But when conversations about those strategies repeatedly turn into arguments between the two of you, there may be something happening underneath the parenting problem.

You may have different ideas about discipline, boundaries, consequences, independence, or what your child needs. One parent may feel the other is too strict while the other feels they're too permissive. Your own childhood experiences may shape how each of you approaches parenting in ways you hadn't realized until you were raising a child together.

That's where parenting-focused couples therapy comes in. Instead of only asking “What should we do with our kid?” we also pay attention to what happens between the two of you when you try to answer that question.

And sometimes the issue isn't a disagreement about parenting at all. It's that parenting and running a household have taken over the relationship. One person carries more of the mental or practical load. Conversations revolve around schedules, homework, appointments, chores, and who needs to be where. You’ve become an effective—or maybe exhausted—parenting team, but somewhere along the way, being a couple stopped making the list.

Parenting-focused couples therapy creates space to work on communication, understand each other's perspectives, address resentment or an uneven load, and make the relationship a priority again—while recognizing that parenting is an enormous part of the life you're building together.

So Which One Do I Need?

You don't have to know before you call.

If you need strategies for handling something with your child, parent coaching may be the place to start. If you need space to focus on your own well-being and the ways parenting intersects with the rest of your life, individual therapy may make more sense. And if parenting challenges are getting tangled up in your relationship with your partner, parenting-focused couples therapy may be the better fit.

Sometimes there’s overlap, and that’s okay.