Getting Support

Parenting is the job with the highest stakes and the least training. You're expected to know intuitively how to manage your own emotions while managing theirs, set limits while staying connected, show up fully while taking care of yourself, often on very little sleep, with very little support, and with the constant background noise of whether you're getting it right.

Most parents aren't struggling because they don't love their children enough. They're struggling because parenting is genuinely hard, and nobody gets a manual.

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This Is Individual Therapy, For You, As a Parent

Parenting support with me isn't family therapy or parent-child sessions. It's your space, to work on your experience of being a parent. That might mean exploring how your own childhood is showing up in how you parent. Or learning DBT skills to manage your reactions in the heated moments. Or just having a place to say the things you can't say out loud anywhere else.

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What We Work On

• Managing your own emotional triggers in parenting moments

• Setting limits with kids in ways that feel firm and connected

• Healing the ways your upbringing is showing up in your parenting

• Navigating co-parenting after separation or divorce

• Supporting a child going through something difficult

• The identity shift and loss that can come with becoming a parent

• Parenting a child with big emotions, mental health challenges, or special needs

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You're Allowed to Struggle and Still Be a Good Parent

In fact, getting support and working on yourself is one of the most impactful things you can do for your children. What gets healed in you doesn't get passed down to them.

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I work with adults and am proudly LGBTQIA+ affirming. Sessions are available in person in Montclair, NJ and via telehealth across New Jersey and New York.

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Serving Montclair, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Verona, West Orange, Maplewood, South Orange and across Essex County NJ.