Parent Coaching + Family Therapy in Los Angeles
Parent & Family Support
Strengthen Your Family. Support Your Child.
Expert guidance for families navigating the adolescent journey.
Why Family Support Matters
When your child is going through major changes, it affects everyone. Parents often find themselves triggered by their child's behavior in ways that surprise them, usually because it brings up their own adolescent memories or family experiences.
Understanding these dynamics helps families respond thoughtfully instead of reactively. Suddenly, what looked like defiance starts making sense as normal development.
Parent Coaching Helps With:
Reading Between the Lines
Understanding what your child's behavior is really communicating
Knowing when to worry and when to trust the process
Managing your own emotional reactions without taking things personally
Supporting their growth without losing your connection
Breaking Old Patterns
Noticing when your own childhood experiences influence your parenting
Creating new family dynamics that work for who you all are now
Staying connected while giving them room to grow
Family Therapy Addresses:
Whole family healing
Communication patterns that aren't working
Trust that needs rebuilding
Major transitions during adolescence
Eating disorder recovery (using evidence-based Family Based Treatment)
Balance between connection and independence
We Work With All Kinds of Families:
Single-parent families
Blended families
LGBTQIA+ families
Families with neurodivergent members
Adoptive families
Multi-generational families
What to Expect
Parent Coaching: Learn strategies that work with your child's development. Respond with knowledge rather than reactivity.
Family Therapy: A trusted space where everyone shares their experience. Build communication patterns that honor everyone's needs.
Goal: Move from survival mode to thriving together.
Our Approaches
We work from a family systems perspective, understanding that patterns in relationships are often multi-generational and that change in one family member creates change throughout the system.
Our approach combines:
Understanding family dynamics and communication patterns
Education about adolescent development
Practical tools for responding rather than reacting
Deeper exploration of how your own experiences shape your parenting
For families navigating eating disorders, Dr. Harris is trained in Family-Based Treatment (FBT), an evidence-based approach that mobilizes the family as the primary resource for recovery.
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