Support for Parents. Better Outcomes for Children.
Blackbird Health offers support for parents from coaching, to therapy, to regular progress updates for kids in care.
Getting support for yourself is one of the most effective ways to help your child.
When a child is struggling, the instinct is to focus entirely on what's happening with them.
But home is where treatment either takes hold or doesn't.
When families come to Blackbird Health, one of the first things our clinicians look at is what's happening around the child, not just inside them. And that’s because a lot of the most important work for children happens between sessions.
What kind of parent support is right for me?
You don't need to know which type of support you need before reaching out. Here's a quick guide to the different ways we can help.
| Parent Therapy | Parent Coaching | SPACE Parent Training | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best if... | Your own stress, anxiety, or well-being needs support | You want practical strategies for parenting challenges | Your child's anxiety or OCD is affecting family life |
| You'll work on | Anxiety, depression, burnout, triggers, and patterns | Routines, behavior, meltdowns, executive functioning, and everyday challenges | Changing how you respond to your child's anxiety and reducing accommodations |
| Format | Weekly or biweekly 60-minute therapy | Flexible 60-minute sessions | Structured 6-week program |
| Cost | Insurance accepted | $150 per session | $900 for the program |
| Learn about Parent Therapy → | Learn about Parent Coaching → | Learn about SPACE → |
Parent Therapy
Parent Coaching
SPACE Parent Training
Parent Therapy
Support for you, not just your parenting
Parent Therapy focuses on your own mental health and well-being. You'll work individually with a therapist to address anxiety, depression, burnout, stress or patterns that may be making parenting and everyday life harder.
Parent Therapy may be a good fit if you're:
Feeling anxious, depressed, overwhelmed or burned out
Finding yourself more reactive than you'd like
Struggling with perfectionism or over accommodation
Noticing your own experiences or triggers affecting family relationships
60 minutes · Weekly or biweekly · Insurance accepted
Parent Coaching
Practical strategies for everyday parenting challenges
Parent Coaching gives you practical, personalized strategies for your child's needs and your family's routines. It can be especially helpful for families navigating ADHD, autism, executive functioning challenges, emotional regulation, or difficult behaviors.
Parent Coaching may be a good fit if you're:
Struggling with homework, routines or transitions
Unsure how to respond to meltdowns or challenging behavior
Trying to understand what's driving your child's behavior
Looking for strategies you can start using right away
60 minutes · Schedule as needed · $150/session
For parents with kids receiving care at Blackbird Health, your first session is covered by insurance. To request a coaching session, log into your Blackbird Health portal and click ‘Request an Appointment’.
SPACE Parent Training
Help your child overcome anxiety by changing how you respond to it
SPACE is a structured, evidence-based program for parents of children with anxiety or OCD. SPACE works directly with parents, so your child doesn't need to participate in the sessions. You'll learn how to respond differently to anxiety and gradually reduce accommodations that can unintentionally keep anxiety going.
SPACE may be a good fit if:
Your child's anxiety or OCD is affecting everyday family life
You find yourself changing routines to prevent your child's distress
Reassurance, avoidance or accommodations have become a pattern
Your child isn't ready or willing to participate in therapy themselves
60 minutes · Weekly for 6 weeks · $900/program
3-5x
When a parent struggles with anxiety, children are 3-5 times more likely to have an anxiety disorder.
Helpful guides for parents and caregivers
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How Parent Mental Health Affects Kids
If you’ve asked yourself whether your stress is affecting your child, the answer is yes. But maybe not in the way you think. Read more
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Failure to Launch
What It Really Means When Your Adult Child Is Struggling—And How to Help. Read more
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Support for the Whole Family
How Blackbird helped three boys and their parents reach mental health goals together and as individuals. Read more
Frequently asked questions
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You don't have to be in therapy yourself, but being involved in your child's care makes a real difference. Research has found that parent-only interventions can be quite effective and in some cases, working with parents alone produced outcomes equal to direct child therapy. At Blackbird, we build parent involvement into treatment from the start.
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Yes, and the research on this is consistent. Children regulate their emotions partly through the adults around them. When a parent is chronically stressed or anxious, a child's nervous system picks up on that. That doesn't mean stress causes problems automatically, but it does mean your emotional state is part of your child's environment in a real, physiological way.
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Stress is temporary, like a hard week, a difficult stretch, a season that lifts. Burnout is when the depletion stops lifting. It shows up as a shorter fuse than you used to have, less capacity to absorb your child's big emotions, more reactivity in moments that used to feel manageable. If you've been running on empty for a while and can't quite remember what it felt like not to, that's worth paying attention to.
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That recognition matters and is a good place to start. Treating your own anxiety or depression may be one of the most protective things you can do for your child — a 2022 study in JAMA Network Open found that having a regulated same-sex parent in the household was associated with substantially lower rates of anxiety in children. If you're not sure where to begin, our Care Navigators can help you figure out what kind of support makes sense, whether that's through Blackbird or somewhere else.
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If you're noticing that your own anxiety, depression, or burnout is affecting how you're showing up at home — more reactivity, less patience, trouble being present — that's a reasonable signal. You don't need to be in crisis to deserve support. A focused session with a clinician, or even a few targeted conversations, can shift patterns that are hard to change on your own. You can reach out to Blackbird Health directly for parent therapy or caregiver support options.
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No. You can get therapy at Blackbird Health as a parent even if you child is not in care. We accept insurance just as we do for child mental health appointments.
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Yes. We have clinicians who specialize in supporting adults and are experts in many of the challenges faced by parents and people later in life.