There is no denying that parenting a child with challenging behavioral or emotional concerns is tough, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming and you don’t have to figure everything out on your own. Through education on child development and highly researched behavioral strategies, you can move past feeling stuck and find more peace in parenting— all backed by science and from the comfort of your own home.
Our clinical parenting groups led by our child psychologists offer a short-term, convenient, and cost-effective solution to helping you and your child with challenging behaviors related to attention problems (ADHD/ADD), anxiety and OCD, sleep problems, autism, and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). A formal diagnosis is not required to join a group.
Summer 2024 Groups:
Supportive Parenting for Challenging Behaviors
This is a 5-week virtual group based on evidence-based treatments for managing challenging childhood behaviors. Parents will learn positive parenting strategies for behaviors related to sleeping, eating, following directions, temper tantrums, and calming down. Each session will utilize a combination of instruction and role-play to teach a variety of parenting skills aimed at improving your child's behavior. There will also be time each week dedicated to being able to interact with other parents regarding the shared experience of raising a child and the challenges that it presents. This group is for parents of children ages 2 to 8 years. Fee: $70/session.
This group meets once per week virtually from 12:00 - 1:15pm or 6:00pm - 7:15pm.
**Next group starts Summer 2024 - Dates TBD
Led by Dr. Kayla LaRosa, Licensed Psychologist
Supportive Parenting for Child Anxiety
This is an 8-week virtual group based on the evidence-based treatment, SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center. Meetings will teach parents how to respond to their child’s anxiety in a supportive way, while also reducing accommodations they've been making for their child's anxiety. This group is appropriate for the most common anxiety disorders that children face including generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, separation anxiety, and social anxiety. This group is for parents of children ages 4 to 17 years. Fee: $70/session.
This group meets once per week virtually from 12:00 - 1:15pm or 6:00pm - 7:15pm.
**Next group starts Summer 2024 - Dates TBD
Supportive Parenting for Teen ADHD
This is an 8-week group that teaches parent strategies for raising teens with ADHD. Meetings will help parents better understand their teen's ADHD symptoms and how to accommodate them at home and school. The parenting strategies taught aim to improve the child’s behavior, motivation, self-control, executive functioning, and self-esteem and the parent’s confidence in their ability to help their child. This group is for parents of children ages 11 to 19 years. Fee: $70/session.
This group meets once per week virtually from 12:00 - 1:15pm or 6:00pm - 7:15pm.
**Next group starts Summer 2024 - Dates TBD
Parents with ADHD Parenting Children with ADHD
This is an 8-week group for parents of children with ADHD who also have ADHD themselves. Having ADHD puts a unique spin on parenting. Meetings will help parents take care of themselves, better understand behaviors characteristic of child and adult ADHD and the effective strategies for managing them, and provide a safe space for parents to share their challenges among a group of parents who understand and relate. This group is for parents/caregivers of children all ages. Parents who have ADHD, but their child does not, are also welcome.
This group meets every other week virtually for 75 minutes and is offered at a time that works for everyone in the group (because that's how ADHD works!). The group starts as soon as the waitlist is full. Fee: $70/session.