GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN AND TEENS RECEIVING COUNSELING
When a child is in counseling, parents play an essential role in helping those new skills, insights, and strategies take root at home. Parent support sessions are designed to help you feel more equipped, confident, and connected as your child works through their goals in therapy.
Rather than serving as separate therapy for parents, these sessions focus on collaboration—helping you understand your child’s progress, learning effective strategies for home and school, and creating consistency in how challenges are addressed.
During these sessions, we may talk through:
what your child is working on in therapy
ways to strengthen communication and connection
strategies for responding to big emotions or behaviors
how to support your child’s confidence, coping skills, and independence
common stressors that come with parenting and how to navigate them more smoothly
These conversations are practical, supportive, and centered on your child’s needs—not a separate counseling service for parents.
Parent involvement helps your child make meaningful, lasting progress. Together, we create a team approach—one that helps your child feel supported in all parts of their life, not just in the counseling room.
If your child is starting services and you’d like to know more about how parent support works, feel free to reach out.