Parent Coaching for Child Anxiety & OCD: The SPACE Program

You've Rearranged Everything, And The Anxiety Is Still There.

Parent coaching for childhood anxiety and OCD because your child doesn’t have to set foot in a therapist’s office for things to change at home.

You know the routine, you’ve experienced the meltdown before school, the thing(s) you can’t say or do because it might set them off. You love your kid more than anything, but you’re running on fumes, and honestly, a little lost on how to best support them.

SPACE means you don’t have to drag an unwilling kid to a therapist’s office for things to change. You can be the change agent (even when you’re not the problem causer!) right from your living room.

SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) was developed at Yale, and it’s game-changing for families. It’s a parent-only treatment that teaches you how to best support and help your child’s anxiety.

If Any of This Sounds Familiar, Keep Reading.

We designed this program for parents who are:

Walking on Eggshells Changing plans, avoiding topics, tiptoeing around triggers to attempt to keep the peace. You've gotten so good at managing around the anxiety that you can't remember what life felt like before.
Stuck in the Accommodation Loop Accommodation is anything you do (or don't do) to help your child avoid anxiety. Answering the same question for the fifteenth time. Sleeping next to them because they can't be alone. Ordering food from the same three places because anything else causes a meltdown.
Parenting a Kid Who Refuses Therapy If your child or teen has zero interest in talking to a stranger about their feelings, that's okay. SPACE works anyway because you’re the one doing it.
Just Plain Burnt Out You're running on empty. You want to support your child, and you also want to remember what it feels like to exhale. Both things can be true, and both things are valid. This program is for you, too.

"Dr. Zendegui and her team are an exceptional resource for specialized therapy for anxiety and OCD across children, adolescents, and adults."

Dr. Kristen Roman

New York

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Change Starts With You. And That Is Not Your Fault.

This isn’t about blame. The whole time you’ve been doing what any loving parent would do: trying to keep your kid feeling safe. Anxiety is sophisticated though, and it convinces everyone in your family, including you, that more accommodation equals more safety.

Instead, it’s been gradually shrinking your child’s world a little more each day and your own capacity to keep up with it. SPACE works by changing that equation, one step at a time. Here’s the SPACE framework:

Step 1: Map the Pattern
We help you see exactly where accommodation is showing up, and it’s often in ways you didn’t even realize. Then we pick one small, manageable target to shift.

Step 2: Change the Response
You’ll learn what to say (and what not to say) when anxiety shows up. It’s a script that works and it’s delivered with warmth and compassion from you.

Step 3: Build the Muscle
Like any muscle, you need to practice and build it up. We’re there to support you in sessions, and slowly, your child starts to see that they can handle more than either of you thought.

Step 4: Watch the Shift
As you shift your responses, your child’s symptoms often start to shrink. Sometimes within days. And you get to be the one who made that happen.

SIMPLE, STRESS FREE

Reclaim Your Confidence as a Parent

We’re here to give you a clear path forward, one that puts you back in the driver’s seat and gives your kid the chance to surprise both of you.

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