Parenting

Our parent coaches in Cincinnati and Indianapolis are ready to help.

We Can Help You With Parenting

Every child is different and so are their needs! It’s natural to feel confidence and ease with some parenting challenges, and overwhelm, frustration, and confusion with others. When parents are resourced and have the support they need, they have a greater capacity to show up for their children during hard times. Engaging in parent coaching or therapy can help you address your child’s developmental needs while also fostering a strong bond between you and your child. This is a powerful combination that provides resilience and a greater capacity to connect and problem solve together as your child navigates new challenges.

Parenting Challenges

ADHD

Feeling stressed and frustrated about child’s behavior or ADHD related problems
Stuck in a reactive negative pattern
Difficulty enjoying your child or focusing on their negative aspects

Anxiety & OCD

Demanding that your child face fears despite intense anxiety
Excessive accommodations to help your child avoid anxiety
Offering excessive reassurance

Behavior & Emotion

Difficulty identifying or supporting your child’s needs when dysregulation occurs
Parenting highly sensitive children
Supporting a child with demand avoidance
Negative reactions to difficult behaviors

Divorce Transitions

Navigating blended family transitions
Developing a collaborative co-parenting plan
Responding to children’s feelings of loss and fear
Fostering secure bonds through hard times

Relationship Conflict

Frequent arguments or tension between parent and child
Disagreements between parents about parenting style, rules, or consequences
Feeling disconnected
Difficulty repairing after conflict

Technology

Concern about your child’s use of technology
Difficulty supporting your child to overcome tech related problems (e.g., withdrawal from activities and relationships, poor self-esteem, or exposure to harmful material)

Effective Elements of Parent Coaching

Set Healthy Limits

Learn to use positive language to help children understand limits
Practice setting and enforcing clear expectations and boundaries
Develop a plan to reduce problematic technology use

Build a Secure Bond

Learn about your child’s attachment needs and how to foster security
Practice being a “safe haven” and “secure base” for your child
Learn to identify and repair ruptures
Identify reactions getting in the way of relationship and emotional regulation

Build Skills

Identify time management and organizational strategies that will help your child at home and school
Practice social skills and emotional regulation skills with your child
Learn to use positive reinforcement to build your child’s skills

Deal with Difficult Behavior

Understand your child’s needs when they are exhibiting negative behavior
Learn how to offer a “reset” when your child is drawn into negativity
Practice giving energy and connection to desired behaviors
Learn how to set reasonable consequences and follow through

Build Your Child’s Confidence

Learn how anxiety affects your child
Understand the drawbacks of protecting your child from their anxiety and demanding they not be anxious
Identify ways you accommodate your child’s anxiety
Learn effective strategies for support and confidence building

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.

1 Understand the Problem

2 Choose Treatment Targets

3 Create an
Action Plan

Frequently Asked Questions About Parent Coaching

What is it like to work with our parent coaches in the Indianapolis and Cincinnati areas?

We believe the connection with your therapist and having clear guidance about the treatment and therapeutic process are critical for a great therapy experience, that’s why we promise our clients Remarkable Connection and Clear Direction. Your unique needs and expectations matter to us as we work together to help you accomplish your goals. Here’s a snapshot of the ThrivePointe experience.

1. Build a Strong Therapeutic Relationship

Team up with a therapist who strives to deeply understand your experience and expertly guide you through the process of making changes.

2. Understand the Problem

Develop a clear picture of your problem, including your personal history, symptoms, triggers, and the ways your life is impacted.

3. Create an Action Plan

Using evidence-based approaches, design an individualized plan to achieve your goals.

4. Implement New Skills & Solutions

Get the right balance of support and challenge to make life and relationship changes.

5. Track Your Progress To Do What Works

Make sure therapy is helping by monitoring improvements and refining your action plan.

6. Achieve Your Goals

Experience the Satisfaction of working hard to see positive changes and growth in your life!

Here's how Lauren Melvin at our Blue Ash, OH office helps families experience change through parent coaching.

When your child is struggling with a mental health or life transition challenge natural to experience some of that stress and overwhelm as a parent as well. Offering the right balance of support and challenge can be difficult to identify, especially if you’re still trying to understand what is behind your child’s struggles and what they need from you. Lauren can start by offering you support, understanding, and guidance about how to move forward. You’ll encounter her compassion and expand your capacity to offer capacity and patience to yourself and your family members as you do that work to implement changes and monitor your child’s progress. Parent coaching helps you release some of the self-blame you may be placing on yourself, while valuing your important role in helping your child succeed. You might be surprised how much their coping and negative behaviors improve as you implement changes discussed in parent coaching! Parent coaching equips you to be the expert and change-maker so you can help your child continue to face challenges and expand their capacities throughout their childhood and teen years.

What does anxiety counseling look like?

Acceptance Based Behavioral Therapy (Roemer & Orsillo, 2020) helps clients break free from anxiety cycles and move toward a mindful, compassionate, and accepting experience that reduces distress.

Learn about fear and anxiety and track your own worry cycle.
Learn about the function of emotions.
Practice formal and informal mindfulness, defusion (or getting unhooked from unhelpful thoughts), and self-compassion to cultivate a compassionate and balanced stance toward your internal experiences.
Learn how to “score a point against anxiety” by increasing acceptance of the things outside your control.
Create a fear and avoidance hierarchy.
Practice acceptance with exposure; select the situations or thoughts you are most motivated to work on from your hierarchy.
Identify the ways anxiety has interfered with your life, goals, and dreams.
Pinpoint your values and the values-driven actions that are meaningful to you.
Make plans each week to engage in values-driven actions and notice the benefits of the healthy actions you were able to engage in!

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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!