Parenting a child who is experiencing anxiety can be tough! Take a deep breath – you’re in the right place. SPACE Therapy can be a game-changer for families! SPACE therapy stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. It’s all about empowering you to be the solid support your child needs as they navigate their anxiety.
In SPACE therapy, we’ll work together to create a plan to create a safe space for your child to face their fears, one step at a time. We’re not just managing anxiety, we’re building resilience. We’re instilling confidence in your child to manage and tolerate those feelings of anxiety. I’ll equip you with practical strategies, teaching you specific techniques to manage your own responses to your child’s anxiety, such as modeling calmness and providing confidence and support without feeding anxiety by reinforcing avoidant behaviors.
Jenn has been trained by Eli Lebowitz, the creator of SPACE, in the using the model to help families. Jenn is deeply committed to empowering parents to establish and maintain necessary boundaries while remaining grounded in their families core values. Jenn’s approach is rooted in compassion, humor, and collaboration.
Some of the main anxiety problems I treat with SPACE include:
- Separation anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Generalized anxiety
- Fears and phobias
- Panic disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Best suited for kids ages 5-12.
What is SPACE?
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
SPACE is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety and OCD. SPACE has been designed as a short-term treatment that works directly with parents. Children do not attend SPACE sessions. SPACE treatment focuses on changes that parents can make to their own behavior, they do not need to make their child change. Parents who participate in SPACE will learn ways to respond supportively to their anxious child, learn skills and tools to help identify ways in which they are inadvertently accommodating the child’s anxiety, and create and implement a plan for reducing those accommodations.
SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center and has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.
To read more about SPACE and how it works visit the Resources page