Treatment Approaches
Parent-based, IOCDF-recommended treatment for child and teen anxiety, OCD, and failure to launch. Compassionate, family-centered care without requiring your child in every session.
Face-to-face connection in a comfortable Ventura office. A good fit for clients who live locally and prefer in-person therapy for OCD and anxiety conditions.
Online therapy with HIPAA-compliant Telehealth from anywhere in California. Great for busy schedules and people who live outside Ventura County. Hybrid options are available.
Understanding SPACE
SPACE is a parent-based treatment program developed at the Yale Child Study Center by Eli Lebowitz. It is regarded as a compassionate, evidence-based therapy for children's mental health that supports recovery from anxiety disorders and OCD.
Studies demonstrate SPACE results in equal positive outcomes to cognitive-behavioral therapy for children. SPACE is a sensitive solution to anxiety disorders and OCD recovery for children who are unwilling or unable to participate in therapy—and for parents who desire to be equipped with effective tools to help their child overcome fearful avoidance and ritualized behavior. Learn more on the SPACE treatment page or request a consultation.
Parent concerns | Ventura, CA
It is so hard to watch your child struggle and not know the best way to help. Professional support is available so you don't have to figure this out on your own.
SPACE treatment | Ventura, CA
An evidence-based, parent-based IOCDF-recommended treatment. Parents learn to reduce accommodations while increasing supportive responses that foster courage and resilience.
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is an evidence-based IOCDF recommended treatment for pediatric anxiety and OCD. SPACE treatment promotes parental empowerment and is shown to be as effective as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for child and teen anxiety and obsessive-compulsive behavior.
SPACE works by utilizing therapist coaching of parents to strategically and lovingly adjust their approach. With expert guidance, parents are supported in reducing accommodations that in the long-term unintentionally maintain and increase their child's anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a transformative family-centered program designed to help parents effectively support their anxious children.
The program focuses on understanding your child's anxiety or OCD and learning helpful parental strategies to foster resilience and psychosocial development.
Contact to learn more and get started with evidence-based and compassionate child and adolescent anxiety and OCD treatment. Learn to lovingly help your child launch despite their vulnerability to anxiety with SPACE therapy in Ventura and throughout California.
“Accommodation is helpful when it teaches your child the valuable lesson that she is able to cope with feeling anxious. Accommodation is unhelpful when it reinforces your child's belief that she cannot cope with anxiety and must avoid situations that are likely to trigger it.”
By implementing these principles, parents can create a nurturing environment where anxious children feel safe to confront their fears, ultimately fostering the development of independence and resilience. The SPACE program empowers families by providing tools that promote emotional growth and healthier coping mechanisms for managing anxiety, phobias, and OCD.
Parents work directly with the therapist to make changes in their own behavior that seek to influence the anxious child's improved functioning and overall wellbeing.
SPACE FTL Parent-Based Treatment for Highly Dependent Adults
Failure to launch (FTL) or highly dependent adult children, refers to the difficulty some people face when transitioning into adulthood. They may struggle to leave home, start a career, meaningfully participate in a training or educational program, or manage their own basic responsibilities.
Parents of FTL adult children often find themselves in a desperate bind and need professional help to increase the family's functioning. Each family's circumstances are unique, and I offer compassionate therapy to help families overcome these challenges.
Meet Your Therapist
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Ventura OCD Therapy. I specialize in SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)—an evidence-based, IOCDF-recommended approach for child anxiety, OCD, and failure to launch.
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