Counseling for Children of Therapists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and online across PA
You hoped it would be different for your child and your family.
You’re supposed to know what to do, right?
After all, this is what you trained for. What you’ve spent years studying, practicing, living.
You know about child development. You understand how parents' relationships shape a child's sense of safety and self.
You can geek out about attachment theory with the best of them — anxious, avoidant, disorganized — you’ve mapped the territory.
You’ve done your best to teach your child that all their feelings are welcome.
And if you’re being honest, there’s a quiet shame tucked inside — a voice that says, "How can they be struggling when I’ve tried so hard to get it right?"
You're trying not to blame yourself.
You're trying to remember that being the child of a therapist doesn’t make them immune to pain.
That love doesn't inoculate.
That life is still life — messy, beautiful, heartbreakingly human.
You know the “right” things to say. The scripts. The theories. The scripts behind the theories.
But when it’s your own child, it’s different.
It cuts deeper. It shakes something in you that no book or training ever quite prepared you for.
We see you.
Hey, you.
We know how hard you are trying — after long days with your own clients — to still show up present, attuned, available for your child.
We know you’re not looking for someone to "teach" you how to be a parent.
You want — need — a therapist who won’t talk down to you.
Who knows you’ve already read the books about gentle parenting, trauma, nervous system regulation.
Who won’t waste time telling you that yelling doesn't help — you already know that.
You’re looking for something rarer:
A therapist who can offer new eyes without judgment.
A therapist who can connect — not just to your child, but to you — human to human.
Who can meet you in the place where your professional knowledge and your personal heartache collide.
You want a space where you can actually be the client.
Where you don't have to worry that your child's therapist is silently sizing you up, questioning your validity because of your family’s struggles.
You know that family dynamics matter — you've taught this to others.
But you also know that no amount of head knowledge untangles those dynamics when you're in them yourself.
You know how old wounds get stirred when your child struggles.
How it wakes up something primal — a desperate, aching wish to give them a childhood they won’t have to recover from.
You believe in therapy.
You believe in healing.
You have witnessed transformation in your own clients — and now, with a full heart, you want that for your child, too.
We understand that when you’re a therapist seeking therapy for your child, you have a high standard.
You should.
You deserve thoughtful answers to your questions about the modalities we use, about how we understand what's happening for your child.
We will help you make the most informed decision about whether our approach is the right fit — and we’ll be honest with you about whether we believe we can help.
But more than anything, we aim to offer a space where it’s safe to lay down the degrees, the trainings, the weight of all you know.
A space where, for an hour, you can just be “mom.”
Just be “dad.”
Just be a parent or caregiver who loves their child, fiercely and imperfectly.