Parenting Therapy

Online Therapy for Parenting Offered from Our Offices in Boca Raton, Florida and Roslyn, New York

Your child’s feelings & behavior may feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone.

Parenting therapy can help you learn strategies to communicate with and support your child — becoming a better, more present parent. You’ll finally feel like you’re in the same boat as your child and rowing in the same direction.

Does Parenting Feel Really Hard Sometimes?

Here's how to know if Parenting Therapy Could help You support your child better:

  • Your child seems anxious or nervous. They’re shy at parties and don’t want to have playdates. Or they start avoiding school. You’re not sure how to help them — and, in fact, their behavior may feel embarrassing or provoke your own anxiety, which can make it harder to support them.

  • Your kid throws tantrums at home or out in public. Perhaps it’s because they don’t want to eat their dinner or they want a toy at the store. You’re at a loss how to handle their outbursts and either respond with anger or give into their demands.

  • You find yourself triggered by your child’s behavior or emotions. You’ve found yourself easily becoming anxious or angry rather than staying calm and handling your child’s emotions in a constructive way.

  • You experienced trauma or other challenges in your childhood that you know are keeping you from being the best parent you can be. You’d like to explore feelings from your childhood to learn how to address them and develop a better parenting style.

How Can Parenting Therapy Help?

Parenting therapy can help you be a better, more present and calm parent — someone who actually enjoys being parent. In parenting therapy, you’ll learn how to communicate with your child and develop strategies to address their emotions and challenging behaviors, including anxiety, hyperactivity and defiance.

During parenting therapy, we’ll explore the underlying emotions that affect your child’s behavior. Your child doesn’t want to behave badly, but they’re often unable to cope with their emotions. By understanding your child’s emotions and their triggers, you’ll be able to help them act better.

We’ll also use our therapy sessions to understand your own emotions and triggers. Your child’s behavior may bring up feelings that you’d haven’t addressed. We’ll spend time identifying situations that trigger your emotions and planning proactive strategies, so you’ll be able to remain calm and better help your child.

  • “Jaclyn is upbeat, warm and intuitive. While maintaining a straightforward and calm demeanor, she brings humor and intelligence to her work — allowing kids and their families to really feel heard. I’d highly recommend her to anyone seeking therapy.”

    - CP -

What To Expect During Parenting Therapy Sessions

Parenting therapy sessions are 45 minutes, and we’ll meet either one-on-one or together with your partner/spouse via videoconference.

We start by exploring your entire family dynamic, including identifying each member’s personality traits, triggers and emotions. We’ll then focus on the person whose behavior is causing the most challenges, often but not always the child. Our goal will be to identify their emotions and triggers and create a plan to help them cope with their feelings and change their behavior.

Early in our work together, we’ll set the foundation for that plan, including creating a “safe space” for the child in the home and developing language you can use with your child to help state, validate and cope with emotions. We’ll also create a behavior intervention plan, which is usually a system where the child can earn things for engaging in more adaptive behaviors.

During your session, we may also spend time talking about your childhood experiences and unpacking the positives, negatives and stressors in your own childhood. This will help you learn to cope with your own emotions and navigate your parenting strategies.

A Customized Therapy Treatment Plan to Help with Your Unique Parenting Challenges

  • Anxiety in Children

    For children with anxiety, we’ll work together to build a treatment plan that addresses both your child’s anxiety and your feelings about their anxiety.

    We’ll support your child by helping them learn how to cope with stress, including setting up a safe space for the child and teaching them breathing strategies, muscle relaxation techniques and other methods for managing their anxiety.

    You’ll get additional support to understand your own emotions about your child’s behavior, allowing you to remain calm and be a better parent to your child.

  • Behavioral Challenges

    Children who display hyperactivity, defiance or oppositional behavior benefit from a behavior intervention plan.

    We’ll analyze their behavior, with a focus on understanding why it happens, what happens right before the behavior begins, and any consequences. From there, we’ll work together to mitigate any of the factors or triggers we identified. This may include changes, like getting more sleep, eating healthier foods, or wearing headphones if loud noises trigger them.

    Your child’s behavior intervention plan will also include a reward system to encourage more adaptive behaviors.

  • Parenting Struggles

    Does parenting just feel really hard? It can be! In parenting therapy, we’ll work together to explore your struggles and create new strategies to help you handle parenting with more ease.

    Parenting therapy can give you a safe space to explore your feelings. Whether you need to vent about everyday frustrations or want to delve into your own childhood experiences, therapy can help you address emotions that may be holding you back from being the type of parent you want to be.

    Working with a psychologist can also offer you insight into and the opportunity to practice new parenting strategies to improve your relationship with your child.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Parenting therapy can help you be a better, more present, and calm person who enjoys being a parent. If you feel like you are just getting by or surviving parenthood and counting down the minutes until bedtime, you will likely find parenting therapy helpful.

  • Absolutely, they can! We can start with the person who is most going to attend therapy, and then your spouse/partner and child can join in on different sessions. I find it to be most helpful when the whole family is involved.

  • Yes, I can teach you ways to talk to your child, so they actually talk with you. Most children give one-word answers or say “good,” because their parents aren’t good at asking questions that let the child talk more. We’ll work on asking open-ended questions that will prompt them to talk more and allow you to understand your child better.

  • Absolutely. It’s incredibly important for parents to talk about their own issues in therapy so you can uncover and address how it’s impacting your parenting approach and style.

  • Our weekly sessions last 45 minutes. I work with clients as long as necessary to get you to place of well-being. In some cases, this can take 6-12 sessions. In others, clients may work with me for a year or longer to address their concerns.

  • Insight Psychology Group offers telehealth and online therapy for parenting sessions from its offices in Roslyn, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.

  • Parenting therapy is $300 per session.

    I am an out-of-network provider for insurance companies. That means I don’t accept direct payment from insurance companies. However, I can provide you with the necessary paperwork to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement if you have out-of-network benefits.

    Most people are very successful in receiving reimbursement from their insurance companies for individual therapy sessions.

    Sliding scale can be discussed based on need.

Ready to learn strategies to help you be the best parent you can be?

I offer free consultation calls to ensure we’re a good fit. Whether you have questions about therapy, are ready to work together, or want to learn more about my therapeutic approach, let’s talk!