If you’re lying awake at night worried about your child’s constant worries, you are not overreacting. If you’ve noticed your once-confident child refusing to go to school, avoiding their friends, or complaining of stomachaches with no medical cause, your instinct that something is wrong is correct. Parents often come to
I hear this more often than anything else: “I wasn’t sure if I was overreacting.” Parents come to my office worried, exhausted, and carrying guilt. They describe a child who seems withdrawn, or irritable, or struggling in school. And almost every parent says some version of the same thing: “I
One of the most common things I hear from parents after their teenager is diagnosed with depression is: “I don’t know what to do about school.” By the time a teen is in my office, they have often been struggling academically for months — and most of that time, nobody
Parents often tell me some version of the same thing: “I know teenagers are moody, but something feels different this time.” They’re not sure whether to be worried, whether they’re overreacting, or how to tell the difference between teen moodiness vs depression. In my clinical work, that uncertainty is almost
If you are parenting a child with mental health or behavioral challenges, you already know what it costs. You have sat in waiting rooms, researched diagnoses at midnight, called schools, called therapists, called insurance companies. You have modulated your own emotions so that you could help regulate theirs. You have
If you’re a parent of a child with serious behavioral or mental health challenges, you’ve probably asked yourself some version of this question: Is what we’re doing enough? Understanding WISe vs outpatient therapy can help you see which level of support may better match your child’s needs. Weekly therapy is
Every week, I meet families who have been through the wringer, parents who have watched their child spiral through hospitalizations, school crises, and out-of-home placements not because they gave up, but because traditional programs weren’t built for the complexity their family carries. Then they find WISe, and something shifts. The
