Therapy for Experienced Moms

Gentle parenting through your own trauma can get even trickier as your child gets older (and more feisty!)

Perhaps you...

Are parenting a child with unique emotional or behavioral needs.
Are trying to figure out how to gentle parent when your child's behaviors seem to be anything but gentle (re: pushing back, testing limits, or struggling with dysregulation)
Are juggling multiple responsibilities and priorities and feeling exhausted.
Are really wanting to feel connected with a sense of Self beyond your mothering role - but you are wondering when? how? Who even is she?
Start each day planning to stay calm and measured, but find yourself yelling and issuing threats by afternoon.
Feel yourself taking it personally when your child pushes for more independence, even though you know this is normal.
Want to feel less alone, but it seems that avenues for support are even more sparse now that you are past the early days of parenting.
Are navigating conflict with a partner or other family members who have different ideas of how to parent.

Experienced moms may have passed the baby phase, but are still very much in the trenches of parenthood. When your kids are older, the tasks and decisions can feel endless. You might be trying to juggle work (or other responsibilities) along with pick-ups and drop-offs, staying on top of school forms, doctors appointments, and generally serving in an unpaid role of "family manager."

Gentle parenting is extra hard when you can't look back at your own childhood for a blueprint to follow. Despite loving your kids deeply and feeling committed to offering your child a safe, stable, emotionally attuned home base, you might often feel tested to maintain this standard. Real life can get the best of any of us.

Maybe you're tired of comparing yourself to others and feeling 'less than.' You're sick of shouldering more than your share of responsibilities and are ready to set boundaries and ask for the support you need. You want to continue your own healing work so you can meet your children more fully, feeling less affected by past wounds.

In therapy, I can help you anchor in your strengths so you can parent from a place of empowerment. Let's work together to cultivate your self-trust and confidence.

I've invite you to see yourself with with compassion instead of judgment. While it makes sense your own childhood has left you with a harsh inner critic, let's help you find a gentler way of relating to your kids and yourself.