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 Winter and Spring 2025 SPACE Groups:
WINTER 2025
January 9 – February 27, 2025
8 Weekly Meetings
Thursdays from 11:45am – 1:00pm
Led by Kelsey Weiss, LMFT
and Ali Pietrykowski, LMFT
SPRING 2025—GROUP 1
March 6 – April 24, 2025
8 Weekly Meetings
Thursdays from 11:45am – 1:00pm
Led by Denise Berumen, LMFT
and Kelsey Weiss, LMFT
SPRING 2025—GROUP 2
April 16 – June 4, 2025
8 Weekly Meetings
Wednesdays from 9:00 – 10:15am
Led by Sheri Beasley, LCSW
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: $125 per group session for up to 2 parents/caregivers. (8 sessions total—$1000.)
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.
