This two-part workshop is structured around practical worksheets that have proven to be effective in rigorous evidence-based research on the SPACE approach by Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD, at Yale. (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions- a parent-based treatment for childhood and adolescent anxiety and OCD. )

We will also be using a worksheet I have developed for identifying your and your child’s unique sensory and somatic default settings.

You’ll be using these worksheets during the sessions and can return to them afterward. These worksheets will be used as tools for implementation, not homework overload. 

You’ll explore and learn: 

The unique anxiety mechanisms in your body and in your child’s
Identify the underlying sensory and somatic factors that tell each of your systems when you're not safe.  

How to unhook from your child’s anxiety
Recognize and differentiate when the anxiety you feel inside is actually your child’s anxiety rather than yours, and how to process them separately.  

Common parenting traps
Compassionate ways we accidentally accommodate and expand anxiety’s power—and how to course-correct. 

Which beliefs and decision criteria are misleading, and what is true and life-enhancing instead
Discovering truths that allow you to unhook from those faulty beliefs and fine-tune decision criteria

Addressing Anxiety without “Masking”
How to use respect for anxiety to expand its capacity to discern when discomfort is not danger   

Supportive statements
Learning how to communicate both acceptance and confidence at the same time 

Your personalized plan
Creating a clear, realistic plan for responding differently when anxiety shows up