Parents and Caregivers

Are you experiencing a challenging emotional reality related to your role as a parent or caregiver? Perhaps you’re experiencing heightened anxiety, emotional disconnection from others, intrusive thoughts, or waves of unexpected grief. Or maybe you are one of the many parents that find themselves struggling with their sense of self, their partnership, friendships, or job. As a parent myself, I know there is no way to fully prepare for the physical and emotional demands of raising children and you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Parenting and caregiving is one of the most tender, revealing, and creative endeavors that you can take on in life. It can activate wounds from your own childhood that, before now, you may have considered healed. It begs you to consider your own mortality, purpose, and identity. It drives you to become something new in the world. It quite literally changes the chemistry and structure of your brain and body (regardless of your gender!). And it asks these things of you, all while consuming the vast majority of your time and energy.

I work with many individuals and partners that identify parenting as a central element in their therapy. This can look a number of ways including:

  • Processing your own childhood and the ways you were parented

  • Healing the younger parts of yourself that get activated in parenting

  • Building strategies for managing personal stress and exhaustion

  • Developing skills for supporting children with emotional or behavioral struggles

  • Coaching on best parenting practices across development

  • Exploring your evolving identity and values

  • Dealing with grief or trauma related to:

    • life you had before parenthood

    • birth and/or the journey to parenthood

    • witnessing your own parents interact with your children

  • Supporting couples or co-parents in:

    • creating a unified parenting approach

    • maintaining intimacy and connection

It is my honor to give parents space that is focused on caring for you, so you can be present for and enjoy more aspects of parenthood. I am LGBTQIA+ and poly-affirming and I work with caregivers who come to their roles in many different ways.