Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)—Parent Groups
SPACE Parent Groups: A New Way to Support Your Anxious Child
Looking for new ways to support your anxious child? The SPACE program—Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions—is an evidence-based intervention that teaches concrete skills and tools to reduce your child’s anxious behaviors.
Our SPACE parent groups meet online weekly for 8 weeks and are facilitated by our expert team of caring clinicians. Open to parents of children ages 6 – 14.
Who can participate?
Group participants are parents/caregivers of children ages 6 – 14 with behaviors associated with anxiety and/or OCD. There is a maximum of 8 families/parenting partners per group.
NOW ENROLLING for Our Fall 2025 SPACE Groups:
FALL 2025—SESSION 1
September 8 – October 27
8 Weekly Meetings
Mondays from 11:45am – 1:00pm
Led by Kelsey Weiss, LMFT and Ali Pietrykowski, LMFT
FALL 2025—SESSION 2
October 28 – December 16
8 Weekly Meetings
Tuesdays from 11:45am – 1:00pm
Led by Ellie Pelc, PsyD and Karen DeVaney, PsyD
Session details: Each Zoom meeting includes learning new concepts, skills and tools to effectively address your child’s anxiety. We meet in both large group and small group formats to prepare and practice how your family can implement new skills each week.
Cost: $150 per group session for up to 2 parents/caregivers. (8 sessions total—$1,200). Private consultations may be requested in addition to the group meetings for an additional fee.
Insurance & Reimbursement: While we do not work directly with insurance providers, we can provide superbills that you may submit for possible reimbursement. Coverage varies by plan—we encourage you to contact your insurance carrier to verify eligibility. Ask whether your plan covers reimbursement for CPT codes 90849 (multi-family group therapy) and/or 90846 (individual family therapy). While we cannot guarantee coverage, we are happy to assist you with the documentation process.
Eligibility
Participants will be asked to complete assessment questionnaires which will enable our clinicians to evaluate eligibility for the SPACE treatment group.*
*If our SPACE clinical team determines that another treatment modality may be a better fit for your family, recommendations will be provided.
