Learn about the difference between fear and anxiety, when anxiety becomes a problem, and how to make sense of your child’s anxious behaviors.

Understand how avoidance works and through the mechanics of the anxiety cycle, the basics of CBT: how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings.

Understand how your responses to your child’s anxiety can serve to either perpetuate it, or help alleviate it. And learn to identify the specific daily adjustments you perform in response to your child’s anxiety and its triggers. We identify these, then make a plan to slowly reduce them.

Learn how to support your child by validating their fears while expressing your confidence in their ability to cope with them.

Learn how to build a plan that gradually reduce your accommodations on while supporting your child. And understand the principles of effective communication as you reduce your accommodations.

Understand how to help your child face their fears head-on but gradually by using fear ladders - a tool that helps involve your child with the anxiety coping process and enables gradual controlled exposure to the triggers that make them anxious.

Learn practical tools rooted in cognitive behavior therapy as well as how to use them to support your child during anxious situations.

Gain skills to deal with a child’s resistance to exposures or accommodation reduction. Learn the skill of active ignoring and effective directions.

Gain perspective: Anxiety is normal, and so are your responses. Learn how to care for your own mental health so you can care for your child’s mental health.

Get answers to common questions.