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 WE OFFER
Meaningful support for parents
Parent therapy
Parent coaching
Training for parents of highly anxious kids
Regular check ins with your child’s care team
Parent therapy and parent coaching serve different purposes. Therapy focuses on your own mental health and well-being. Coaching focuses on practical strategies to support your child's behavior and development.
Individual therapy for parents
Parent Therapy offers evaluation and ongoing therapy to help parents and caregivers identify and change the thoughts, behaviors, and patterns that may be getting in the way of their well-being and the parent they want to be.
Using evidence-based approaches, you'll strengthen coping skills, address emotional challenges, and shift patterns that may be keeping your family stuck.
These sessions can help you:
Treat anxiety or depression
Restore energy and address burnout so you're not constantly running on empty
Recognize patterns such as anxiety, perfectionism, or overaccommodation
Stay calmer and more consistent during difficult situations
Build practical skills to manage stress
Understand and work through personal triggers that become activated in family relationships
Parent Coaching
Parent coaching helps you feel more confident responding to challenging behaviors while creating calmer routines and stronger family relationships.
Parent coaching can help families navigating ADHD, anxiety, autism, behavioral challenges, executive functioning difficulties, and emotional regulation.
These sessions can help you:
Navigate real-life situations like homework battles, transitions or setting routines
Understand the underlying factors driving behavior
Identify if sensory or executive function factors may be contributing
Learn how to teach empathy, resilience and mindfulness skills
Gain practical strategies you can implement right away
Consult on whether professional support is needed for the child
For parents with kids receiving care at Blackbird Health, your first session is covered by insurance. All other sessions are $150 for 60 minutes.
For families of current patients: to request a coaching session, log into your Blackbird Health portal and click ‘Request an Appointment’.
Parent support may be right for you if...
You're exhausted and parenting feels harder than it used to.
Your child's behaviors are affecting the whole family.
You're constantly walking on eggshells.
You're not sure how to respond to meltdowns, anxiety, or defiance.
You think your own anxiety, stress, or burnout may be affecting your family.
You want practical strategies, not just reassurance.
Who is this for?
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
Ongoing progress updates and support while your child is in care
Based on your your child’s age, your child’s care team will regularly touch base with you to update you on their progress and how you can support them at home to reinforce skill building.
We’re in-network with most major insurers
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.