Individual Therapy for Parents in New York City
Navigate parenting challenges with expert support designed for your unique journey
Being a parent in New York City presents unique challenges, from managing work-life balance in a demanding metropolitan environment to navigating complex family dynamics while maintaining your own mental health.
The constant pressure to excel as both a professional and a parent can leave you feeling overwhelmed, isolated, or questioning your choices.
At Everyday Parenting, we understand that parents need individual support that goes beyond generic therapy approaches. Our specialized adult therapy services recognize the distinct emotional landscape of parenthood, offering you a space to process your experiences, strengthen your resilience, and rediscover your authentic self within your parenting role.
Located in the heart of Manhattan and Westchester, our practice provides convenient access to expert care that honors both your individual needs and your identity as a parent. We create a supportive environment where you can explore your challenges without judgment while building the emotional tools necessary to thrive in New York's fast-paced family environment.
Individual therapy for parents at Everyday Parenting addresses the complex emotional needs of adults navigating parenthood while maintaining their personal identity and mental wellness.
Our approach recognizes that parenting challenges often intersect with personal history, relationship dynamics, and individual mental health concerns, requiring specialized therapeutic attention.
Our experienced clinicians utilize evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, “IFS”, Mindfulness-Based approaches, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to help you develop healthy coping strategies, improve emotional regulation, and strengthen your capacity for connection.
Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or the overwhelming nature of modern parenting, we provide personalized treatment that addresses your specific concerns.
The therapeutic process begins with a comprehensive assessment to understand your unique circumstances, family dynamics, and personal goals. We then create a customized treatment plan that evolves with your needs, ensuring that therapy remains relevant and effective as you progress. Sessions provide a confidential space to explore your thoughts and feelings, develop new perspectives, and build practical skills for managing daily challenges.
Our Manhattan and Westchester locations offer flexible scheduling options to accommodate the demanding schedules of NYC parents, while our online therapy services extend support to families in surrounding states. Each session is designed to help you not only address immediate concerns but also develop long-term resilience and emotional wellness that benefits both you and your family.
Get Individual Support That Understands Parenting
Key Benefits
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Our individual therapy services are specifically designed for parents who need support that goes beyond traditional approaches. We understand the unique stressors of parenting in New York City, from managing career demands while raising children to navigating the competitive landscape of schools and activities. Our clinicians have specialized training in the intersection of individual mental health and parenting responsibilities, allowing them to address your concerns with deep understanding and relevant expertise.
Located in Manhattan's vibrant Midtown area, our practice serves parents from across the five boroughs who are seeking therapy that acknowledges the reality of their daily lives. We recognize that parenting challenges often trigger personal histories, relationship patterns, and individual vulnerabilities that require careful therapeutic attention. Our approach helps you develop insight into these connections while building practical skills for managing both personal and parenting stressors.
The result is therapy that feels immediately relevant and applicable to your life, helping you not only feel better individually but also become more present and effective in your parenting role. Clients report feeling more confident in their parenting decisions, better able to manage stress, and more connected to their authentic selves within their family relationships.
Our individual therapy services are specifically designed for parents who need support that goes beyond traditional approaches. We understand the unique stressors of parenting in New York City, from managing career demands while raising children to navigating the competitive landscape of schools and activities. Our clinicians have specialized training in the intersection of individual mental health and parenting responsibilities, allowing them to address your concerns with deep understanding and relevant expertise.Located in Manhattan's vibrant Midtown area, our practice serves parents from across the five boroughs who are seeking therapy that acknowledges the reality of their daily lives. We recognize that parenting challenges often trigger personal histories, relationship patterns, and individual vulnerabilities that require careful therapeutic attention. Our approach helps you develop insight into these connections while building practical skills for managing both personal and parenting stressors.
The result is therapy that feels immediately relevant and applicable to your life, helping you not only feel better individually but also become more present and effective in your parenting role. Clients report feeling more confident in their parenting decisions, better able to manage stress, and more connected to their authentic selves within their family relationships.
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We utilize proven therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based interventions, each adapted to address the specific needs of parents. Our Attachment Therapy approach is particularly valuable for parents, as it explores how your early relationships influence your parenting style while helping you develop secure connections with your children.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you identify and change unhelpful thought patterns that may be affecting both your personal well-being and your parenting approach. Many NYC parents struggle with perfectionism, anxiety about their children's futures, or guilt about work-life balance. CBT provides practical tools for managing these concerns. Our Mindfulness-Based approaches offer essential skills for staying present with your children while managing the constant demands of urban family life.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy helps you clarify your values as both an individual and a parent, ensuring that your actions align with what matters most to you. This approach is especially helpful for parents facing difficult decisions about career, family structure, or lifestyle choices that impact their children.
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Every parent's experience is unique, and our individual therapy services reflect this understanding through personalized treatment approaches that honor your specific circumstances, values, and goals. Whether you're a first-time parent adjusting to new responsibilities, managing the challenges of multiple children, or navigating co-parenting dynamics, we provide compassionate support tailored to your situation.
Our Westchester location serves families from across the county who value comprehensive, high-quality mental health care that fits into their busy lives. We understand that seeking individual therapy as a parent often involves managing logistics, childcare concerns, and time constraints. Our flexible scheduling and understanding approach make it easier to prioritize your mental health.
The therapeutic relationship we build with you is grounded in respect, empathy, and non-judgment, creating a safe space where you can explore difficult feelings, process challenging experiences, and develop new strategies for thriving. Our commitment to intellectual rigor means you receive thoughtful, research-backed interventions delivered with genuine care and understanding.
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NYC, with convenient subway access and flexible appointment scheduling that accommodates demanding work and family schedules. Located in Midtown, our office is easily accessible whether you're coming from work in the Financial District or home in the Upper West Side.
For families in Westchester County, our Hartsdale location at 280 North Central Avenue offers a more suburban setting while maintaining the same high standards of clinical care. This location serves parents from White Plains, Scarsdale, and surrounding communities who prefer a quieter environment for their therapy sessions.
Our online therapy platform extends our services to parents in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida, ensuring that geographic limitations don't prevent access to specialized care. This flexibility is particularly valuable for parents with young children, demanding travel schedules, or those who prefer the comfort and convenience of therapy from home. All our online sessions maintain the same level of clinical excellence and personal connection as in-person appointments.
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While our individual therapy focuses on your personal needs, we understand that parents benefit from comprehensive support that can address family dynamics when needed. Our practice offers family therapy, child therapy, and parent coaching services, allowing for coordinated care that supports your entire family system when appropriate.
This comprehensive approach means that if your individual therapy reveals family patterns or child-related concerns that would benefit from additional support, we can seamlessly coordinate care within our practice. Many parents find that addressing their individual needs through therapy creates positive ripple effects throughout their family relationships, leading to improved communication, reduced family stress, and stronger emotional connections.
Our team of experienced clinicians brings diverse expertise in maternal mental health, child development, and family dynamics, ensuring that whatever challenges arise in your individual therapy journey, you have access to specialized knowledge and support. This depth of expertise is particularly valuable for parents navigating complex family situations or multiple stressors simultaneously.
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Our individual therapy services focus not just on addressing immediate concerns but on building lasting emotional resilience that serves you throughout your parenting journey. We help you develop a deeper understanding of your emotional patterns, strengthen your capacity for managing stress, and build healthy coping strategies that adapt as your children grow and family needs evolve.
The skills you develop in individual therapy, such as improved emotional regulation, better communication, stronger self-awareness, and healthier boundary-setting, benefit every aspect of your life. Parents often report that therapy helps them feel more patient with their children, more confident in their parenting decisions, and better able to model emotional wellness for their families.
Our follow-up and progress review process ensures that your therapeutic gains are maintained over time, with regular check-ins to assess your ongoing needs and adjust treatment as necessary. This long-term perspective on mental health support recognizes that parenting is a lifelong journey that benefits from consistent emotional wellness practices and professional support when needed.
Service Catagories
Attachment Therapy
Our attachment-focused approach explores how your early relationships influence your current emotional patterns and parenting style. This therapy is particularly valuable for parents who struggle with trust, intimacy, or unresolved childhood experiences that affect their family relationships. We work together to build a secure sense of self and strengthen your capacity for healthy connection, both with yourself and your children. This approach helps parents break negative cycles and create the secure, nurturing relationships they want with their families.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT provides practical, evidence-based tools for managing the anxiety, depression, and stress that often accompany parenting challenges. We help you identify unhelpful thought patterns, such as perfectionist expectations or catastrophic worries about your children, and develop healthier perspectives. Through structured, goal-oriented sessions, you'll learn concrete strategies for managing difficult emotions, making parenting decisions with greater confidence, and reducing the mental burden of constant worry that many NYC parents experience.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT helps you identify your core values as both an individual and a parent, ensuring your actions align with what matters most to you. This approach is especially helpful for parents facing difficult decisions about work-life balance, family priorities, or lifestyle choices that impact their children. We work together to develop psychological flexibility, helping you navigate parenting challenges while staying true to your authentic self and values.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
In New York's fast-paced environment, it's easy to feel disconnected from yourself and your children. Our mindfulness approaches help you cultivate present-moment awareness, emotional acceptance, and self-compassion. These skills are essential for parents who want to be fully present with their children rather than constantly distracted by stress and mental chatter. We guide you through techniques that help you pause, tune into your emotions, and respond to parenting challenges from a place of calm clarity.
Individual Support for Maternal Mental Health
Our specialized focus on maternal mental health addresses the unique challenges faced by mothers at every stage of the parenting journey. Whether you're dealing with postpartum adjustment, the challenges of working motherhood, or the ongoing stressors of raising children in NYC, we provide targeted support that understands the complexity of modern motherhood. This includes addressing issues like mom guilt, identity shifts, relationship changes, and the mental load of family management.
Our Process
1. Initial Consultation
Your therapeutic journey begins with a comprehensive consultation where we take time to understand your unique experiences, current challenges, and goals for therapy. During this first session, you'll share your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment while we assess how parenting intersects with your individual mental health needs. We discuss your family dynamics, personal history, and specific concerns, creating a foundation for effective therapeutic work. This initial meeting typically lasts 60-90 minutes and helps both you and your therapist determine if we're a good fit for your therapeutic goals.
2. Assessment & Personalized Planning
Following your initial consultation, we conduct a thorough assessment of your mental health needs, parenting stressors, and family dynamics. This evaluation helps us identify the most effective therapeutic approaches for your specific situation and create a personalized treatment plan. We consider your schedule constraints, family responsibilities, and preferred communication style to ensure therapy fits practically into your life. Your treatment plan serves as a roadmap that can be adjusted as your needs evolve throughout the therapeutic process.
3. Regular Therapy Sessions
Ongoing therapy sessions are scheduled at a frequency that works for your life, typically weekly or bi-weekly, providing consistent support as you work toward your goals. Sessions take place in a comfortable, confidential environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings openly. Each session builds on previous work while remaining flexible enough to address immediate concerns or crises that arise in your parenting life. We use evidence-based techniques tailored to your specific needs and learning style.
4. Progress Review & Adjustment
We regularly assess your therapeutic progress through formal check-ins and ongoing dialogue about what's working well and what might need adjustment. This collaborative approach ensures that therapy continues to meet your evolving needs as both an individual and a parent. As you develop new skills and insights, we modify your treatment plan to focus on emerging goals or different aspects of your mental health and parenting experience, ensuring that therapy remains relevant and effective throughout your journey.
Our Approach
At Everyday Parenting, our approach to individual therapy for parents is grounded in the understanding that mental health and parenting are deeply interconnected.
We recognize that traditional therapy approaches often fail to address the unique psychological landscape of parenthood, where individual needs must be balanced with family responsibilities and where personal triggers are often activated by the intensity of parent-child relationships.
Our therapeutic philosophy emphasizes the importance of treating the whole person, not just parenting behaviors or individual symptoms in isolation. We understand that many parenting challenges stem from personal history, attachment patterns, and individual mental health concerns that require careful attention. This comprehensive perspective allows us to address root causes while building practical skills for daily parenting life.
Working within New York City's demanding environment, we've adapted our therapeutic approaches to meet the specific needs of urban parents who face unique stressors, including competitive school environments, limited space, work-life balance pressures, and social isolation despite being surrounded by millions of people. Our clinicians understand these metropolitan challenges and integrate this awareness into every aspect of treatment.
Our commitment to evidence-based practice ensures that you receive interventions backed by research, while our emphasis on compassionate, individualized care guarantees that therapy feels personally relevant and meaningful. We believe that effective therapy for parents must honor both your individual journey and your role within your family system, creating space for personal growth that ultimately benefits everyone in your family.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everyday Parenting Psychology was founded in 2018 by Dr. Layne Raskin and Dr. Jeanette Sawyer Cohen, growing to a team of experienced clinicians serving families throughout New York City and Westchester County. We specialize in comprehensive mental health support for parents and families, with particular expertise in maternal mental health and individual therapy for adults navigating parenting challenges.
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Individual therapy focuses specifically on your personal mental health, emotional well-being, and individual growth as a person who happens to be a parent. While family therapy addresses family dynamics and parent coaching focuses on parenting strategies, individual therapy provides space to explore your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. This personal work often enhances your capacity for effective parenting by addressing underlying issues like anxiety, depression, or unresolved trauma that may impact your family relationships.
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Yes, we understand that NYC parents have demanding schedules and offer flexible appointment times, including early morning, evening, and some weekend slots. Our Manhattan and Westchester locations provide options that can accommodate various work schedules, and our online therapy platform offers additional flexibility for parents who need to fit sessions around childcare or work responsibilities.
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The duration of therapy varies depending on your individual goals and circumstances. Some parents benefit from short-term therapy (12-20 sessions) to address specific challenges, while others find longer-term therapy helpful for ongoing support through different parenting stages. We regularly review your progress and adjust the frequency and duration of sessions based on your evolving needs and therapeutic goals.
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Research shows that online therapy can be equally effective as in-person treatment for many mental health concerns. For busy parents, online therapy often provides advantages, including reduced travel time, easier scheduling, and the comfort of participating from home. We use secure, HIPAA-compliant platforms and ensure the same level of clinical excellence and personal connection in our online sessions as in our office-based therapy.
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We support parents dealing with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety about children's development, depression related to parenting stress, difficulty managing work-life balance, relationship changes after having children, mom guilt, perfectionism, and feeling overwhelmed by parenting responsibilities. We also address how personal history and mental health concerns intersect with parenting experiences, helping you develop greater self-awareness and emotional resilience.
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