Whether you're preparing to welcome a new baby, adjusting to life as new parents, or feeling disconnected from your partner, you don't have to navigate it alone. Therapy can help you strengthen communication, deepen your connection, and move through life's biggest transitions together with greater confidence and care.
Support for the relationships that matter most.
Parenting Support in Pacifica & Online
Compassionate, Gottman-informed therapy for new and expecting parents and those navigating the challenges of raising a child. Build confidence in your parenting, better understand and respond to your child’s needs, and strengthen connection within your family.
For new and expecting parents, this work can also focus on the transition to parenthood and the changes a baby can bring to your relationship. Using Gottman-informed approaches, we can work through communication, shifting roles and expectations, co-parenting, and ways to stay connected as partners while becoming parents.
There is no single “right” way to parent. My goal is to help you better understand your child, feel more confident in your decisions, and create a connected, supportive family dynamic that works for you.
Parenthood brings constant change. You may be preparing to welcome a new baby, adjusting to new roles after your child arrives, or trying to understand behaviors and emotions that have become difficult to navigate.
You Don’t Have to Figure Out Parenting Alone
Parenthood brings constant change. You may be preparing to welcome a new baby, adjusting to new roles after your child arrives, or trying to understand behaviors and emotions that have become difficult to navigate.
For new and expecting parents, this work can also focus on the transition to parenthood and the changes a baby can bring to your relationship. Using Gottman-informed approaches, we can work through communication, shifting roles and expectations, co-parenting, and ways to stay connected as partners while becoming parents.
There is no single “right” way to parent. My goal is to help you better understand your child, feel more confident in your decisions, and create a connected, supportive family dynamic that works for you.
What to Expect in Parenting Support
Parenting support is collaborative and tailored to your family’s needs. Together, we’ll explore what’s happening at home, identify patterns and challenges, and develop practical strategies to help you feel more confident, connected, and supported as a parent.
Understand What’s Beneath the Behavior
Instead of simply reacting to difficult moments, you’ll learn to recognize what your child may be communicating and respond with greater understanding.
Build Confidence in Your Parenting
Develop practical tools that feel natural to you and help you respond to challenges with more confidence and consistency.
Navigating Family Changes
Find support through transitions that affect the whole family, from welcoming a new baby to changing routines, roles, relationships, and family dynamics.
Parenting Support
Explore parenting styles, values, expectations, and communication so you can navigate differences and create a more connected approach to parenting.
Find more productive ways to communicate, make decisions, and parent as a team.
Parenting support can help you better understand your child’s needs, navigate challenges with greater confidence, and strengthen connection throughout different stages of family life.
What Parenting Support Can Help With
CHILD BEHAVIOR CHALLENGES
Make sense of difficult behaviors and find practical ways to respond with greater confidence and consistency.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Help your child move through big feelings while building skills they can carry into everyday life.
PARENT-CHILD CONNECTION
Strengthen your relationship with your child through greater understanding, communication, and emotional connection.
TRANSITION TO PARENTHOOD
Prepare for or adjust to life with a new baby while navigating changing roles, expectations, and relationships.
PARENTING STYLES & VALUES
Get clearer on the kind of parent you want to be and develop an approach that reflects your family's needs and values.
CO-PARENTING SUPPORT
What is parenting therapy?
Parenting therapy provides a supportive space for parents to better understand their child’s needs, work through parenting challenges, and develop practical strategies for their family. Sessions may focus on behavior, emotional regulation, parent-child connection, co-parenting, family transitions, or adjusting to parenthood.
What is parenting therapy?
Does my child need to attend parenting therapy?
Not necessarily. Parenting support can focus on helping you better understand and respond to your child without your child attending every session. We can talk about what’s happening at home, explore patterns and concerns, and develop strategies you can put into practice with your family.
Does my child need to attend parenting therapy?
Can therapy help us prepare for or adjust to a new baby?
Yes. Therapy can support new and expecting parents as they navigate changing roles, communication, expectations, and the emotional transition to parenthood. Gottman-informed approaches can also help couples stay connected as their relationship changes after welcoming a baby.
Can therapy help us prepare for or adjust to a new baby?
Can parenting therapy help with my child’s behavior or big emotions?
Yes. Parenting support can help you better understand what may be contributing to challenging behaviors or emotional reactions and explore practical ways to respond while supporting regulation, communication, and connection.
Can parenting therapy help with my child’s behavior or big emotions?
Do you offer parenting support online?
Yes. Parenting support is available virtually to clients in California and Minnesota, as well as in person in Pacifica, California.
Do you offer parenting support online?
Still have questions?
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Whether you're preparing to welcome a new baby, adjusting to life as new parents, or feeling disconnected from your partner, you don't have to navigate it alone. Therapy can help you strengthen communication, deepen your connection, and move through life's biggest transitions together with greater confidence and care.
Support for the relationships that matter most.
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If you're considering therapy or simply have questions, you're welcome to reach out to learn more and book a consultation below.