Helping Your Child With Anxiety
When your child has anxiety, it can be hard to know the best way to help them. Should you let them steer clear of the situations that make them fearful? Or should you push them to face their fears? ThrivePointe can help you figure that out! We offer an evidence-based program for parents of kids and teens with anxiety. Over the course of seven coaching sessions, an experienced ThrivePointe therapist can help you:
- Learn how anxiety affects your child.
- Understand the traps of protecting your child from their anxiety and demanding that they not be anxious.
- Understand how helping your child avoid anxiety can make things worse.
- Learn how to use supportive statements that communicate acceptance and confidence.
- Develop an action plan to respond in more helpful ways to your child’s anxiety.
- Get support to face challenges as you help your child overcome their fears.
Change your child’s anxiety by changing the way you respond.
Coaching Overview
Following this coaching program, you’ll be well on your way to supporting your child in the best way possible. Here’s what you’ll learn and be able to do:
Sessions
Learning Outcomes
1 Anxiety 101
You will learn how anxiety affects your child.
2 Parenting Pitfalls
You will understand the traps of protecting your child from their anxiety and demanding that they not be anxious.
3 Accommodation
You will understand how changing behaviors to accommodate your child’s anxiety can make things worse.
4 Map Your Accommodation
You will be able to identify ways your family accommodates your child’s anxiety.
5 Supportive Statements
You will learn how to use supportive statements that communicate acceptance and confidence.
6 Reduce Accommodations
You will develop a plan to reduce accommodations.
7+ Overcome Challenges
You will evaluate your accommodation reduction plan and get support to face challenges.
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD by Dr. Lebowitz
This coaching program is informed by the work of Dr. Eli R. Lebowitz in the book, “Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents.” When you sign up for our 7-week parent coaching program you will receive a copy of the book to use alongside our parent coaching workbook. Before or after each session, read the suggested pages and watch the videos to learn even more!
Meet Our Parent Coaches
Take the Next Step with Support for Anxiety
We want to help you create an individualized roadmap (a ThriveMap!) to get CLEAR DIRECTION on how you can achieve your goals and overcome your challenges.
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Understand the Problem
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Choose Treatment Targets
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Create an
Action Plan
Want to Learn More About Parent Coaching
in Ohio or Indiana?
We want to make finding coaching for parents in Cincinnati and Indianapolis easy.
To get parenting support and make changes that last, just follow these three steps:
- Find a coach or therapist on our Team page.
- Call 833-914-4688 to make an appointment.
- Start making progress on your goals!
More ThrivePointe Counseling Services Near Cincinnati and Indianapolis
As a practice, we value treating the whole family’s needs. So, at our various ThrivePointe locations in Indianapolis, Greenwood, Blue Ash and Liberty Township, we can serve you. We provide adult counseling, couples counseling, child counseling and play therapy, teen counseling, family counseling and Christian counseling. Our team cares about you and wants to be a part of your thriving life. Learn more and call us today!