My Family

Relationships can be complicated, challenging, and, if we put in the work, the most meaningful component to our lives. Nothing drives this point home more than families, where different dynamics and personalities can bring both joy and a pounding headache, all in the same fifteen minutes. 

Family therapy is designed to identify, address, and hopefully ease the barriers that are standing in the way of your family feeling connected and whole. With the support and guidance of a skilled therapist, your family will learn more effective ways to listen to one another and be truly heard. If your family has been disrupted by a difficult life event, your therapist can help you work through the challenge together, bringing you closer, rather than pushing you further away. Family therapy aims to help all members to understand one another more fully, and to recognize that each person has an important role to play in overcoming conflict and strife. By doing the difficult work together, families emerge with valuable skills to communicate better, empathize deeper, and problem solve more collaboratively.

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My Child

As a parent, you know better than anyone that children do not process their feelings in the same fashion that adults do. Kids communicate their needs in often hard-to-comprehend ways, sometimes leaving parents and family members confused. If your child is experiencing a mental health challenge, you may feel helpless to provide them the support and understanding that they need. This can cause feelings of guilt, demoralization, and frustration in any parent. 

Child therapy recognizes that, as we develop, our brains react to life events in different ways. Even as an adult it can be difficult to understand, let alone express, what we are feeling and experiencing. Children often have even fewer tools and experience to do so. This is precisely why child therapy is so powerful: it teaches and empowers young people to notice and name what they’re feeling rather than just unconsciously react to it. By helping children understand what they are experiencing, and how their thoughts play an integral role in their emotions, even young kids can develop a sense of agency and regulation in their daily lives. Child therapy is often far more interactive than traditional therapy, and typically involves being playful and creative with a child in order to allow deeper feelings, thoughts, and experiences to surface in the process.

At Sweetgrass, we work with children, and the families that love them, to help them find new ways of being. Often in conjunction with family therapy, child therapy can help your child grow and learn while you grow right along with them.

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Parent Coaching

There is no such thing as the 'perfect parent,' but there tend to be ways in which we can make our lives, and the lives of our children, more fulfilling. Parent coaches at Sweetgrass support mothers and fathers in navigating the endless decision-making and judgement calls that so often tax even the most energetic of parents.  This approach will allow you to expand your toolbox, from having tough conversations with your child to supporting their relationships or academic challenges.  

Parenting can often feel like trial-and-error, and what worked so well for one of your children may have had the exact opposite effect on another. Parent coaching will help you feel better prepared to keep your head above water when things with your child feel unbearable, and will support you in maintaining your values and sense of self throughout the long journey of parenthood.

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