Urgent, in the moment issues may be solved quickly in 1 - 3 sessions YOU get to decide how deeply you want to explore how to handle your situation. ~~~Get results in as little as one session~~~ Big or Small, I can help! Are any of these Family Life Issues driving you crazy? getting up and ready for work and school after school, television, play, homework dinner, baths, bedtime helping around the house, chores, allowances arguing, "it's MNE!" jealousy, fighting, "it' NOT fair!" and the list goes on… You name it, and if it's a hassle, we can work together to turn it around so that it's not!
1. What is the problem behavior?
2. What is the ideal outcome?3. We discuss options for handling the misbeahavior
4. You choose an option that feels best for you5. We practice your new way of responding6. You try it with your child7. It works and you begin
enjoying the family lifeyou’ve always wanted!8. Or, if you don't get the ideal outcome,You choose another option, we practice it,You apply it with your child, then it's #7 or #8
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Counseling for Parents
WHAT TO CONSIDER: Counseling goes deeper into what is going on for the parent. Often parenting
challenges can have deeper roots from your own childhood. Here is a partial list of possible deeper issues
that can be getting in the way of a positive, cooperative relationship with your child:
Were you kicked out of the house at an early age, or you ran away?
Was your relationship with either parent or another person painfully difficult?
Were you neglected/abandoned/invisible or held to impossible standards?
Have over the counter or illegal drugs or medications ever been an issue?
What were your ways of "acting out" as a child?
Were you protected/overprotected or pampered?
YOU get to decide how deeply you want to explore how to handle your situation and
Typically these issues require more than one session and
I'M HERE FOR YOU!
Private one-on-one in person or by telephone
Getting to the Heart of It! With Barbara Smailey, PhD. (650) 365-(days a year) KIDS (650-365-5437)
