Parenting Support
What parent couldn’t use a little extra support?
“It takes a village” sounds cliche, but it is true. Let me be part of your village!
As a new parent, you may be navigating this huge identity shift that no one could possibly prepare you for. Whether you want to process your own childhood to avoid repeating unwanted patterns (you know, so that you can screw your kid up in new and different ways). Or if you need practical strategies to deal with the latest sleep regression, tantrum phase, or trigger that has come up.
We will work together to help you feel confident, calm, and grounded as a parent.
Do I have this whole parenting thing figured out myself? HECK NO!
And I probably never will. I make mistakes regularly and own that.
Being a mom has rocked my world in so. many. ways. And I’m a therapist! With tons of training in child development, emotional expression, etcetera etcetera. It made me even more passionate about helping parents find their joy in parenting. Do we hate the cliche that the days are long but the years are short? Sure we do, but that does not make it less true. Let me help you make the most of those short years and hopefully make those days drag a little less.
While I will never claim to be a perfect parent, I do have extensive education and experience working with children. I received advanced training in child play therapy while at UNT, whose program is internationally renowned in the play therapy field. I then worked with kids and families for the first several years of my career as a therapist. I bring to session this clinical knowledge, combined with my own firsthand experience (read: trial and error) as a mom to support you in meeting your parenting goals.
So much of being the parent we want to be comes from knowing ourselves - our limitations, triggers, parenting pain points. As we build insight about how you were parented and how you may (or may not) want to parent the same way, we will put you on the trajectory to becoming the parent you want to be.