In-person in west linn & online across oregon
parenting support
Families are like group projects — you can do everything right and still end up not on the same page.
You don’t have to be the “perfect parent” to be a good one.
Parenting has a way of holding up a mirror — to your patience, your relationship, your past, and every part of you that’s still learning how to feel safe. It’s loving your kid more than anything and still wondering if you’re screwing it up. It’s trying to stay connected to your partner when you’re both running on fumes. It’s wanting to break old patterns without knowing what to build instead.
Therapy gives you space to pause, reflect, and actually make sense of what’s happening — beyond the noise of advice, guilt, and survival mode. Whether you’re here as a parent, a couple, or both, we’ll work toward parenting from a place of understanding, not reactivity.
You don’t have to have all the answers. You just need a space to breathe and figure them out together.
what i do
therapy is about:
Helping you understand what’s actually happening beneath the day-to-day chaos
Making sense of how your own upbringing shows up in your parenting
Supporting you in breaking cycles without losing connection
Helping you and your partner (or co-parent) get back on the same team
Building tools that work for your family — not generic advice from the internet
Offering compassion, not judgment, for the moments you wish you’d handled differently
what i don’t do
therapy isn’t about:
Telling you how to parent or handing you a script
Taking sides or deciding who’s “right”
Ignoring the emotional labor, gender roles, or systemic pressures that shape parenting
Expecting you to be calm and gentle 24/7
Pretending that love automatically makes parenting easy
Pathologizing normal human overwhelm
together, we will:
learn
What’s really driving the hard moments — the meltdowns, the distance, the arguments that keep looping. We’ll look at what your nervous system is trying to do in those moments and how your own history shapes your reactions.
understand
How stress, attachment, and communication patterns move through your family system. We’ll trace the ripple effect — how one person’s overwhelm can throw everyone off balance — and practice ways to restore calm without losing yourself.
connect
With your kids, your partner, and yourself in ways that feel more intentional and less reactive. We’ll work on repairing ruptures, co-regulating through chaos, and finding moments of joy and presence even when life is messy.
THE PROCESS
Parenting isn’t about getting it right — it’s about staying connected when it goes wrong.
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Reach out: Click the link to schedule a consult or send me a message. We’ll talk about what’s been feeling hard — the conflicts, the guilt, the pressure — and what you’re hoping could feel different.
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Trace it back: We’ll start by looking beneath the surface — what’s really happening when tensions rise, what might be going unspoken, what your nervous system is trying to protect, and how old family patterns might be sneaking into the present.
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Practice repair: Together, we’ll work on how to reconnect after rupture — with your kids, your partner, and yourself. It’s not about perfection; it’s about rebuilding safety, one small repair at a time.
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Strengthen the foundation: Over time, therapy becomes a space to create rhythms that feel sustainable. You’ll start feeling more grounded, more in tune, and more confident that you can handle the messy parts without losing connection.
curious about working together?
starting therapy shouldn’t feel like another stressor.
Option 2
Hate phone calls? Relatable. You can skip that step and send me a message instead. I’ll send over a quick screener form, and if it looks like a good fit, we’ll move forward with scheduling.
Option 1
Click below to schedule a free consultation call. We’ll talk through what you’re looking for, you’ll get a feel for me and how I work, and if it seems like a good fit, we’ll get your first session on the books.
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Not my style. I’m not here to hand you a rulebook or lecture you on “good parenting.” I do offer psychoeducation about child development and share tools — like collaborative problem-solving and regulation strategies — that can help when things feel stuck. But it’s never one-size-fits-all. We’ll look at what fits your family’s values, culture, and dynamics, and build from there. My goal is to work with you, not to mold your family into someone else’s idea of “right.”
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Welcome to being human. You don’t need to be perfect — just willing to notice what happened, repair when needed, and learn from it. Therapy can help you do that without all the guilt and shame getting in the way.
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I get that — but not in the “fix the kid” way. We’ll look at the whole system: what’s happening for your child and what’s happening for you. Behavior is communication, and therapy helps everyone understand what’s being said underneath it.