Healing happens in relationships, and you are a significant part of your child’s healing journey. 

By focusing on co-regulation and connection in the relationship with your child, you can start to understand more of the reason and why underneath behaviors and learn more about your child’s inner experience. 

This will help their nervous system and teach them regulation with you as their support. Through parent coaching or Filial Therapy, we can focus on the relationship with your child.

Regulating ourselves, recognizing our emotions, understanding people’s behavior, sitting with boredom and disappointment; these are all experiences we have to make an effort to learn how to handle as we grow up. 

We don’t know these skills right off the bat!  You and I can work together to help you co-regulate with your child in less of a talk manner and more of a nervous system/brain-body based manner.

This will depend on your child’s unique experience and where they are at developmentally.  Through parent coaching, we can talk through the uniqueness of your child, your family and parenting and what you are seeing in your child’s behaviors.  From there we can work on your regulation skills which in turn allow you to be there and support your child in co-regulating with them.  That connect and support from you is part of the healing and positive change that can happen within your child.

Maybe you’ve tried behavior charts, positive reinforcement, encouraging your child to talk with you when they are upset, time outs and many more.  Through all these efforts, maybe thing haven’t changed in the way that you would like to see.  Or maybe you’re relationship with your child isn’t where you’d like it to be.  There are so many tools and resources out there to choose from!

I am currently half way through a year long parenting training course with Robyn Gobbel of “Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors”.  If you’d like more information about the parenting approach please check out her website - https://robyngobbel.com/

This parent training course explores the understanding of your child’s nervous system and the concept of co-regulation with your child. In this way you are offering connect and an ability for them to regulate with you until they build the skill of being able to regulate more independently.

Sometimes, the behavior a child exhibits can be a lot to handle. Your child’s dysregulation and stress can then cause you to feel dysregulated and stressed.

These behaviors are hard! Together, we can work on understanding the underlying need or reason that you are seeing the behaviors you are seeing in your child.

We can develop and use some X-ray goggles to find out what is actually happening underneath.

In this way, we can address the core need and nervous system perspective and move away from the whack-a-mole of trying to deal with one behavior after another.

Or maybe you’d like to learn more about how to play and connect with your child. Play doesn’t always come naturally, and it’s completely normal for it to feel a bit awkward or unfamiliar at first!

Through Filial Therapy, I can help teach you some of the skills I use in the playroom, and with dedicated one-on-one time with your child, you’ll be able to practice these skills and have deeper connection and feel more comfortable playing with your child.

Filial therapy is a bit structured in that it typically occurs in ten sessions. For the first, at least three, sessions, you and I will meet one-on-one and discuss your child, your relationship with your child and what you’d like to be different. I will also walk you through and teach you some play therapy techniques.

The rest of the sessions look like having guided play sessions in which I can either observe your play therapy with your child in my office or you can record your play session and we can go over the session after.

The purpose and goal is to improve parent-child relationships, enhance children's social and emotional well-being, and allows you greater connection with your child. 

I also provide support to new parents who want to begin to be aware and cultivate co-regulation with their baby or young child and increase connection and attachment.

The Process of Therapy

Step 1

DISCOVERY CALL

You can schedule a free 15-minute consultation phone call with me to see if we’d be a good fit. You will have a chance to ask any questions, I can explain my approach to parent coaching or filial therapy and I can discuss what to generally expect from the parent coaching or family therapy process.

Step 2

INITIAL SESSION

We will complete a thorough intake via telehealth or in person to have greater context and understanding of the situation that brings you to therapy. We can discuss parenting, what your strengths are that we can build on, and what you would like the areas of focus to be. We can also discuss what treatment will look like and an overview of the therapy process

Step 3

ONGOING SESSIONS

While it’s ideal to meet once a week, we can work around your schedule and what works best for you. These appointments are 50 minutes and in-person at my office or can be telehealth. Continued therapy is unique to everyone and we will continue to check in with each other and assess how the process of parent coaching or filial therapy is progressing.

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All therapy services start with a free 15 minute consultation

Intake session

$200/50 minutes

ongoing Sessions

$150/50 minutes

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I am not paneled with any insurance companies, but I do have superbills automatically generated on the first of every month that can be submitted to insurance companies for reimbursement.

    If you would like to seek reimbursement for services, you can call their insurance company before beginning treatment to ask if the you or the child has out-of-network mental health benefits, if those benefits cover in-person and telehealth sessions with procedure codes 90791, 90837, 90834, 90832, 90846, and 90847 and what portion of payments they will be responsible for.

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  • While weekly sessions are beneficial, I can work with your schedule. We can meet in person at my office or virtually via telehealth.

    Depending on the type of support you are looking for we can begin parent coaching or filial therapy with a focus on your relationship with your child.

  • Filial therapy is a special kind of play-based therapy where parents or caregivers are actively involved in their child’s emotional healing and growth.

    Instead of just the therapist working with your child, I’ll work with you to learn some simple, child-centered play techniques that can really strengthen your relationship and help your child feel more understood and secure.

    You’ll have special play sessions with your child—using specific tools and approaches I’ll teach you—and then we’ll meet regularly so I can support you, answer questions, and help you grow in confidence. The goal is to give you tools to help your child manage emotions, work through challenges, and feel truly connected to you.

    It’s not about being a ‘perfect’ parent—it’s about deepening your connection with your child and learning skills that can make a big difference at home. Many families find that filial therapy not only helps their child, but also brings more calm, understanding, and closeness to the whole family.

  • I provide both in-person sessions at my office in Scottsdale and online/telehealth therapy options for those across Arizona.

    If you are located anywhere in Arizona we can work together!