Parenting Skills Training Group
Learn tools and strategies to manage challenging behaviors in children age 2-10 in a new way and bring peace and connection to your home.
Parenting Skills for Stressed Parents
Have you tried everything? Are the parenting skills in all the books you've read not working for your family? Most parenting books are directed towards the average child. But, what if your child is just a bit ... different? You need a new set of skills.
Maybe you:
- Want to protect your child's safety, but they impulsively run off in public places
- Provide redirection, which only results in meltdowns or outbursts
- Feel embarrassed about your child's behavior or guilty about your response
- Wish things could be easier at home and public places
This group will teach you new tools and strategies create the peace and connection you crave.
Parenting struggles you may be experiencing
Are any of these behaviors creating challenges for your family?
- Kicking, biting, scratching, punching or throwing things
- Impulsive behaviors such as running off or not listening
- Aggressive behaviors, arguing or talking back
- Tantrums, meltdowns, or emotional outbursts
- Constantly seeking attention, whether positive or negative
- Power struggles or defiance
Sometimes kids are just more challenging than others whether due to temperament, greater sensitivity to physical or emotional input, mental health factors such as anxiety, ADHD or autism, or other reasons.
The truth is, your child is not acting that way on purpose. They are having a hard time. When you can tune into their unique triggers and needs ahead of time and have new skills on effective ways to respond, you can learn how to prevent these unwanted behaviors or at least minimize their intensity.
About The Facilitator
Jessie has over 10 years of experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, parents, and families. She specializes in a range of neurodiversity like ADHD, Autism, sensory processing, anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues. These challenges can have a range of symptoms and treatments. Jessie provides an individualized and collaborative approach to each client in order to provide the best care. Jessie is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (LPC-Associate), license # 89746. She received supervision from Diana Cabrera-Stewart, MA, LPC- Supervisor license # 73994.
Small group with preschool aged children (3-5)
If you have a preschool child who struggles in their social and emotional development, then this group is for you. Additionally, parents will virtually meet in a group before each session. Parent groups will be on Mondays from 12-1:30 pm, and the preschool group will meet on Fridays from 10-11:30 am.
During the parent groups we will be discussing a range of tools and strategies to implement in the home environment like scripts to help with expectations and relationship boundaries, priming tools to help your kids with unexpected situations and transitioning from preferred activities, strategies to guide easier transitions, and individualized approaches for any child and/or family’s needs.
Preschool groups will be set up into schedules where we transition from one station to another. Each station will be different and unique, where we work together to follow a schedule, engage in sharing activities, advocating for oneself, learning to express our emotions in a healthy way, and sensory play to engage our sensory system. Please reach out to me for any questions and/or interests in this group. I offer free 15-minute virtual consultations to all my new clients.
Small group with elementary school aged children with neurodiversity
If you have a neurodivergent elementary child who struggles in their social and emotional development, then this group is for you. Additionally, parents will virtually meet in a group before each session. Parent groups will be on Mondays from 2:00-3:30 pm, and the elementary group will meet on Fridays from 1:00-2:30 pm.
During the parent groups we will be discussing a range of tools and strategies to implement in the home environment like scripts to help with expectations and relationship boundaries, priming tools to help your kids with unexpected situations and transitioning from preferred activities, strategies to guide easier transitions, and individualized approaches for any child and/or family’s needs. Some of these individualized approaches will focus on your child’s sensory system and to better help your child feel in control of their body, which in turn will help with emotional regulation.
Elementary groups will be set up into schedules where we transition from one station to another. Each station will be socially interactive, where we work on identifying emotions through interactive play, like pretend play and labeling whether a certain behavior was expected or unexpected. Then the problem solving on how to help the character who was unexpected to reset and change the behavior/response to be expected.
Additionally, we will engage in repair making and how to have a repair after a rupture. During these activities, we will implement expectations like following a schedule, engaging in shared activities, advocating for oneself, learning to express our emotions in a healthy way, and sensory play to engage our sensory system.
Learning how to engage our sensory system in a healthy way will better help your child to independently implement tools and strategies during emotional dysregulation. Please reach out to me for any questions and/or interests in this group. I offer free 15-minute virtual consultations to all my new clients.
TIME
Group with preschool-aged children (3-5)
Parent groups: Mondays from 12-1:30 pm
Preschool group: Fridays from 10-11:30 am
Group with elementary school-aged children with neurodiversity
Parent groups: Mondays from 2:00-3:30 pm
Elementary group: Fridays from 1:00-2:30 pm
COST
$200 per week.
This includes both parent and child sessions
LOCATION
5225 Katy Freeway, Suite 103, Houston, Texas 77007
Florida