Parenting Sessions for a New World

Parenting Sessions

The increasingly competitive, demanding, modern world, with artificial intelligence, technology, social pressures, academic competition, and constant emotional demands, means that parents need more awareness, skills and abilities than ever before. Parenting today requires new skills for a new world. This is where we can help.

Our evidence-based approach to supporting parents of children and teens in Miami and South Florida is advanced and relationship-focused. Rather than providing direct child psychology, child therapy, or child coaching sessions, we provide parenting sessions designed to help parents better understand their child, strengthen the parent-child relationship, and develop more effective ways of responding to emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges.

Our parenting approach draws on Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP) and Dyadic Development Parenting, together with contemporary understandings of attachment theory, neuroscience, developmental trauma, neurobiology, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), caregiving, intersubjectivity theory, and child and adolescent development.

Parenting sessions may be helpful when families are experiencing:

• Parent-Child Conflicts

• Behavior Problems

• Anger & Upset Behavior

• Withdrawal or Avoidance

• Emotional Breakdowns

• Anxiety or Emotional Distress

• School and Academic Issues

• Self-Esteem Issues

• Difficulty Adjusting to Changes

• Loss & Grief

• Divorce and Separation Challenges

• Family Relationship Difficulties

The central principle is that the relationship between a child and their parent or primary caregiver is one of the most important relationships in the child's life. Our parenting sessions therefore focus on helping parents understand what may be happening beneath a child's behavior and how their own responses, communication, emotional regulation, expectations, and parenting skills and abilities can influence the relationship.

Rather than positioning the professional as the most important relationship in the process, we work with parents as the primary agents of change. Parents can develop a deeper understanding of their child's emotional needs and learn practical ways to create greater connection, communication, trust, and cooperation within the family.

Our parenting sessions in Miami, South Florida, Los Angeles and on Zoom are designed to help parents make sense of these challenges and develop practical, relationship-centered responses. We also encourage parents to coordinate with other professionals and individuals involved in their child's care, development and helping to create a broader structure of support and development around the child.

Our focus remains on supporting parents and strengthening parent-child relationships rather than providing direct therapy or coaching to the child. By helping parents understand attachment styles, child development, neuroscience, trauma, emotions, behavior, and relationships, parenting sessions can provide greater awareness and understanding, insights, practical skills and abilities to parents to build healthier and more connected family relationships.