Parent Guidance
About Our Parent Guidance Services
At Shared Vision, we recognize that parenting is a unique and individual experience. Parent guidance focuses on providing you with guidance, tools, and emotional support. It blends practical strategies with a deeper look at the patterns, stressors, and history that shape how you respond as a parent. As parents, we can struggle to access the parent we want to be or know how to respond in challenging moments or repair ruptures with our kids. Parent guidance is not about becoming a “perfect” parent. It is about becoming more aware, intentional, and compassionate – toward your child and toward yourself.
Services available in person and virtual.
How We Can Help
Parent Guidance can help you:
- Notice patterns and reactions that happen automatically, even when they don’t fit with your intentions.
- Develop greater awareness of your own emotions, needs, expectations, and vulnerabilities.
- Become more able to pause and respond, rather than react, when your child’s needs feel difficult or overwhelming.
- Explore the tension between your child’s evolving developmental needs and your unique parenting style.
- Develop greater compassion for yourself as you work toward being the parent you want to be.
- Repair moments of disconnection and find your way back to connection when things don’t go as planned.
- Explore how your experiences of being parented may influence your parenting today.
- Strengthen the skills unique to parenting multiple children, stepchildren, or grandchildren.
Parent Guidance supports parents of children with the following common struggles:
- ADHD
- Anger and behavioral challenges
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Coping with separation & divorce
- Depression
- Family stress or transitions
- Greif and loss
- Identity exploration
- Medical illness
- Neurodivergence
- OCD
- Phobias
- Poor self-esteem
- Relationship/peer problems
- School-related difficulties
- Self-injury
- Sibling Rivalry
- Substance/alcohol use & abuse
- Trauma
Flexible Day-time & Evening Appointments Available
Flexible appointment times to fit your busy schedule. Schedule your free introductory consultation today to learn more and get started.
