Online Parent Therapy: When Parenting Feels Overwhelming
Parenting Shouldn’t Have to Feel This Hard
Parenting a sensitive, strong-willed, or neurodivergent child can feel relentless. The daily meltdowns, power struggles, and constant worries chip away at your confidence until you wonder if you’re failing completely. You might lie awake replaying every moment, questioning if you’re doing enough or if you’re somehow messing it all up.
It can feel deeply isolating when no one seems to understand what you face each day, leaving you judged, blamed, or dismissed. The exhaustion goes beyond physical — it seeps into your heart, making you doubt your instincts and your worth as a parent.
If you’ve tried to stay calm, researched every parenting strategy, and still feel stuck, you are not alone. Parenting children with big feelings or intense behaviors is hard — harder than most people can even imagine. You might love your child deeply yet feel overwhelmed by the daily battles, and that is not a reflection of your ability or your love.
What Is Online Parent Therapy?
Online parent therapy is a safe, private way to get professional support from the comfort of your home. It focuses on you — your emotions, your stress, your parenting style, and the way your child’s challenges impact you. This therapy is different from traditional child therapy, because it helps parents develop their own skills, confidence, and emotional resources to better navigate their child’s needs.
Together, we work on:
- Understanding why your child’s behaviors feel so challenging
- Finding ways to respond that build connection instead of conflict
- Learning how to stay calm and steady, even during big meltdowns
- Strengthening your confidence as a parent
- Processing your own worries, guilt, and exhaustion
No one teaches you how to handle parenting a child whose needs are bigger than what typical parenting books address. Online Parent Therapy gives you a place to be heard, validated, and guided toward tools that actually work in the real world.
Why Choose Online Parent Therapy?
- Convenient: Sessions happen from home, saving you time and energy
- Private: You can speak freely without worrying about stigma or outside judgment
- Tailored: Therapy focuses on your parenting challenges, not a generic checklist
- Effective: Learn practical, science-backed strategies you can use right away
You don’t have to keep doing this alone. Online parent therapy can help you break out of the cycle of frustration, guilt, and hopelessness.
What to Expect in Online Parent Therapy
Every family is unique, and every session is tailored to you. During our work together, you can expect:
- A safe place to talk about the hardest parts of parenting
- Practical tools to help you stay calmer and more connected to your child
- Space to process feelings of shame, doubt, or guilt
- Strategies to help you regulate your own stress
- A focus on rebuilding hope and confidence in yourself as a parent
- Support for 2e/gifted families
- Family Trauma Support
- Co-parenting to get on the same page
- Post-adoption services
This is not about blaming you — it’s about supporting you.
Common Challenges Parents Share
- “My child explodes over the smallest things.”
- “I feel like I’m constantly walking on eggshells.”
- “No one gets how hard this is.”
- “I’m so tired, I don’t know how much longer I can do this.”
- “I love my kid, but I don’t like how I react to them.”
If any of these sound familiar, you are not alone — and you are not failing.
My motto: I help parents become the healers in the home.
How do I get started? Contact Abby
We will have a brief screening phone call, and if it feels right, we will schedule an hour-long, free phone consultation to see if we are a good match for therapy. This is my offering to you, at a time when you are struggling the most.
Book your free discovery call: Click here
FAQs
What is online parent therapy?
Online parent therapy is a supportive, professional service that helps parents address their own stress, worries, and parenting skills through secure video sessions. It focuses on you as the parent rather than treating the child directly.
Will online therapy really help me?
Yes — many parents feel a huge sense of relief after sharing their struggles in a nonjudgmental space and gaining new strategies that fit their child’s unique needs.
Is it confidential?
Absolutely. Online parent therapy is private and secure, meeting all HIPAA-compliant telehealth guidelines.
Do you only work with neurodivergent families?
No. While I specialize in supporting parents of neurodivergent or highly sensitive kids, I also work with any parent who feels overwhelmed, stuck, or burnt out.
What can I do while waiting for therapy to start?
You can get a feeling for how I work by listening to my mentor, Robyn Gobbel's, podcast about how parenting can be traumatic. Listen here
You Deserve Support: Contact Abby
We will have a brief screening phone call, and if it feels right, we will schedule an hour-long, free phone consultation to see if we are a good match for therapy. This is my offering to you, at a time when you are struggling the most.
Book your free discovery call: Click here