IN-PERSON IN STUDIO CITY & ONLINE across CALIFORNIA

Sometimes the fastest way to help your child is to change what you do.

SPACE-based parent training and coaching for caregivers of anxious kids. No child attendance required.

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SPACE-trained
(Yale Child Study Center)

Parent-only
treatment model

Studio City + telehealth
across California

You don't need your child in the room for this to work.

I am a proudly SPACE-trained clinician, certified in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions — a parent-based treatment developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz, director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center, to reduce anxiety and OCD in children and teens by working directly with caregivers.

Rather than treating your child, SPACE works with you on the specific accommodations families make around a kid's anxiety: answering for them, letting them skip things, offering constant reassurance. Those accommodations come from a good place; they're also often what keeps the anxiety in place. SPACE is a structured, step-by-step process for reducing them without pulling support out from under your kid.

This isn't general parenting advice. It's a manualized, evidence-based protocol with weekly structure and measurable steps.

This may be a fit if you're:

  • A parent of a child who won't engage in individual therapy

  • A parent of a younger child, where parent-only work tends to be more effective anyway

  • Already deep in an accommodation loop — doing tasks for your child, offering constant reassurance, or letting avoidance become the default

  • Looking for concrete tools alongside your child's existing individual therapy

How It Works

  • Free 20-minute consultation

    We talk through what's happening at home and whether SPACE is the right starting point.

  • Intake assessment

    A longer first session to map current accommodations and family patterns around the anxiety.

  • Weekly parent sessions

    Structured work, typically without the child present, reducing specific accommodations one at a time.

  • Check-ins and adjustment

    As anxiety comes down, we review what's working and adjust the plan.

Answers to Your Questions

  • SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is a parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety and OCD, developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center. Instead of treating the child directly, it works with parents on the accommodations that unintentionally reinforce anxious behavior.

  • No. SPACE is built around parent sessions. Your child may never attend a session; for many families, that's exactly why it works when child-only therapy hasn't.

  • SPACE is manualized and evidence-based, with a specific sequence of steps built around your family's particular accommodations, not general tips. It's closer to a treatment protocol than a parenting philosophy.

  • It varies by family, but most see meaningful movement within 8 to 12 weeks of consistent weekly work.

  • Yes. SPACE pairs well with a child's existing individual therapy, whether that's with me or another provider.

  • It matters, and it's common. Part of the early work is getting both parents on the same page about which accommodations to target first, since mixed signals at home slow the process down.

Ready to change what's happening at home?

A free 20-minute consultation is the first step — no commitment, just a conversation about whether SPACE is the right fit for your family.

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