Parent and Family Support

You may be worried about your child’s eating habits, body image, mental health, or weight and unsure how to help. Maybe you are afraid they will be teased, judged, excluded, or treated unfairly at school because of their size. 

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Those fears come from love. However, commenting on a child’s weight, monitoring their food, encouraging dieting, or pushing more exercise can unintentionally create shame, anxiety, secrecy, disconnection from hunger cues, and a painful belief that their body is a problem.

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Family and parent therapy can help parents support their children around food, movement, body image, eating concerns, teasing, health concerns, anxiety, depression, and self-worth without making body size the focus or creating shame at home.

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Together, we can explore how to talk about bodies, food, health, teasing, movement, emotions, and self-worth in ways that reduce shame rather than increase it. We can also focus on helping children stay connected, or reconnect, with hunger,

fullness, body trust, and enjoyable movement.

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