Parenting

Parenting work is about facilitating the emergence of your identity as a parent and empowering you to nurture your child in a way that responds to their developmental needs and fosters their growth.

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Beginning Preschool &
Saying Goodbye

 

Starting preschool is a major emotional and developmental transition for children and parents alike. Even when a child is ready for school and parents know it is the right time, the experience of separating can bring up anticipation, tears, resistance, guilt, anxiety and uncertainty about how to respond.

I help parents understand their child’s developmental and emotional needs as they consider, prepare for, and move through the transition to preschool. Together, we can think through readiness and navigate separation, adjustment, and the many developmental transitions that accompany these early years, helping you respond with greater understanding, confidence, and connection.

  • They are considering preschool and wondering whether their child is ready

  • They want to prepare thoughtfully for the transition into school

  • Goodbyes bring tears, clinginess, or resistance, and they are unsure how best to respond

  • Separation or adjustment remains difficult, even when their child appears comfortable once at school

  • Their own anxiety, guilt, or uncertainty is becoming part of the transition

  • They are navigating a developmental change, such as potty learning, moving out of a crib, changes in sleep, or welcoming a new sibling

  • Their child’s emotions or behavior feel increasingly intense or difficult to understand

Parents often reach out when:

Focused parent consultations are available for families preparing for preschool, navigating separation and adjustment, or moving through the developmental transitions of early childhood.

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Having children is a uniquely challenging, confusing, life-changing, empowering, and meaningful experience—and one that most parents face without any training or formal support. Shifting from adulthood into parenthood is a monumental transition, a change in identity, worldview, and daily life.

Children often unintentionally shine a light on that with which we struggle most. Our unresolved childhood experiences come into the foreground. Areas of personhood with which we grapple move into focus.

Parenting becomes infinitely harder and more confusing when our own struggles go unaddressed. So let’s understand what you are experiencing, and address your and your child’s needs.

I bring extensive knowledge of childhood development, and 15+ years of working with parents and children to help you with:

separation

attachment

emotional regulation

Parenting work is about:

  • We’ll explore your sense of self as a parent. We’ll see how your identity has been impacted by this big life change and where you’re needing support, compassion, or further understanding.

  • Contemplating the parent we'd like to become brings up all that we experienced in our own journey through life. Reflecting on this and processing these experiences is crucial to developing your own identity.

  • I bring my understanding of child development into our work to help you understand what your child is going through and working on in any given moment and learn how to best meet them where they are at.

  • As we understand all that parenthood is bringing up for you, explore how your child is challenging you, and develop your confidence and knowledge, we’ll awaken the truest you: a parent who is grounded, reflective, and attuned to their child.