Family therapy & parenting
Making sense of the moments that shape your family.
Parenting can challenge your patience, your expectations, and even the way you understand yourself. Whether you are navigating a neurodivergent child's needs, raising children between cultures, or learning to parent across two households, therapy can help you find a more intentional way forward.
Parenting is personal. Your support should be, too.
Support for the realities of raising children, navigating family transitions, and building relationships that reflect your values. Whether you are parenting across cultures, supporting a neurodivergent child, or navigating co parenting after separation, you do not have to approach every challenge on your own.
Schedule a Consultation →You are raising a child while navigating your own story.
Parenting can bring your own experiences, expectations, and questions to the surface. You may be trying to respond differently from how you were raised, understand a child whose needs are different from what you expected, or find your footing as your family changes.
For immigrant parents raising children in the United States, family life may also involve navigating language, identity, independence, and different cultural expectations across generations. You may want your children to feel connected to more than one culture while making sure your own perspective is understood and respected.
Therapy is a place to explore these experiences without reducing your family to a problem that needs fixing. We look at the relationships, expectations, and patterns shaping everyday interactions and identify changes that make sense for your family.
Different family situations. A place to understand what is underneath.
Parenting concerns rarely exist in isolation. They can affect your relationships, emotional well being, sense of identity, and the decisions you make every day.
Parenting a neurodivergent child
Understanding ADHD, autism, sensory needs, emotional regulation, communication differences, and the demands these experiences can place on family relationships.
Co parenting after separation
Navigating two households, different expectations, difficult communication, boundaries with an ex partner, and decisions that continue to involve both parents.
Parenting across cultures
Raising children with different cultural reference points, navigating language and identity, and balancing family values with the realities of growing up in the United States.
Your own emotional responses
Exploring frustration, guilt, anxiety, overwhelm, and the experiences that may influence how you respond when parenting becomes difficult.
Parent child disconnection
Understanding recurring conflict, withdrawal, communication difficulties, and the desire to rebuild connection as children grow and family relationships change.
Relationships with adult children
Navigating changing family roles, boundaries, expectations, difficult conversations, distance, and the transition from raising children to relating to them as adults.
Insight matters when it changes how you relate.
There is no single approach that works for every parent or family. Support begins with understanding the people involved, the context they live in, and what has made certain interactions difficult.
Rather than relying on generic parenting rules, we look at what is contributing to the difficulty and develop practical responses that reflect your child's needs, your values, and your family's circumstances.
Understand the pattern
Explore recurring interactions, emotional responses, expectations, and family experiences.
Consider each person's needs
Make room for developmental differences, communication styles, culture, and relationships.
Identify meaningful changes
Develop responses that reflect your family's priorities and the situations you actually face.
Practice in everyday life
Translate insight into manageable changes that can be practiced and adjusted over time.
The relationship has changed. Parenting still brings you together.
Ending a relationship does not end the decisions, responsibilities, and emotions involved in raising a child together. Even when both parents want what is best for their children, communication can become difficult and old relationship patterns can continue to shape conversations.
Therapy can offer a space to explore your own responses, clarify boundaries, and consider more constructive ways to communicate about parenting. The focus is on the emotional and relational challenges of parenting after separation, rather than deciding which parent is right.
Therapy is not mediation, legal advice, custody evaluation, parenting coordination, or a court ordered recommendation service. Services are provided only when clinically appropriate and within professional scope.
You can begin with your experience, even when the concern involves someone else.
You can begin with a specific moment that keeps repeating, a conversation you are avoiding, or the feeling that something in your family needs attention. We will take time to understand what matters to you and what you hope could feel different.
You may start on your own, even when your concern involves your child or co parent. If family sessions may be useful, we can discuss who should participate and why. The format depends on the clinical concerns, goals, and needs involved.
The goal is not to decide who is right or make one person responsible for the family's difficulties. It is to understand each person's experience and identify changes that are respectful, realistic, and meaningful.
A thoughtful, collaborative approach.
I'm Andressa Little, a Licensed Master Social Worker practicing under clinical supervision in Texas. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master of Social Work from Brigham Young University.
My approach is relational and informed by attachment theory, psychodynamic principles, and evidence based practices. I draw from approaches such as CBT and ACT while considering the experiences, relationships, and broader context that shape each person's life.
I am attentive to the ways culture, family history, developmental needs, and changing relationships shape the experience of parenting. As a Portuguese speaking therapist, I also understand that raising children across cultures can involve questions of identity, belonging, language, and expectations that deserve thoughtful attention.
Sessions are offered virtually throughout Texas, in English and Portuguese.
Questions parents often ask.
A few things that may help you understand what parenting and family therapy can look like.
Do I need to bring my child to parenting therapy?
Not necessarily. Parenting support can begin with you individually. Sessions may focus on your concerns, your responses, your relationship with your child, and strategies you can practice at home. Whether involving your child would be helpful can be explored as part of the therapeutic process.
Can therapy help with co parenting after divorce?
Therapy can help parents explore the emotional and relational challenges of raising children after separation. This may include communication, boundaries, different parenting expectations, and the impact of ongoing conflict on family relationships. The focus is therapeutic support, not mediation or legal advice.
Can I attend if my co parent does not want therapy?
You can seek individual therapy to explore your own experience of co parenting, your responses to difficult interactions, and the boundaries or communication patterns you want to address. Joint participation is not required for you to begin individual therapy.
Can therapy help me parent a neurodivergent child?
Parenting support can make room to explore your child's individual needs, your questions and stressors as a parent, and the ways your interactions may be affected by differences in communication, attention, sensory experiences, or emotional regulation. Therapy does not replace diagnostic or medical care.
Can you work with immigrant parents raising children in the United States?
Yes. Therapy can explore the experience of raising children across cultural contexts, including differences in language, identity, family expectations, independence, and belonging. The goal is to understand what matters to your family and where connection becomes difficult.
What if my child was born in the United States and I was not?
Different cultural experiences can shape how parents and children understand independence, family roles, communication, and belonging. Therapy can provide space to explore those differences without assuming that one person's perspective is wrong.
Can therapy help when my child is already an adult?
Yes. Parents may seek support as their children become adults and family roles change. Therapy can explore boundaries, expectations, communication, distance, and ways of relating that respect the changing relationship.
Does every family member need to attend family therapy?
Not always. Participation depends on the concerns, goals, and clinical needs involved. Some sessions may include multiple family members, while others may involve a parent or specific members of the family.
Are sessions available in Portuguese?
Yes. Therapy is available in English and Portuguese. Portuguese speaking individuals and families can explore support in their preferred language.
There is room for a different way forward.
Whether you are navigating family conflict, co parenting after separation, your child's needs, or the experience of raising children across cultures, we can begin by talking about what has been happening and what support might look like.
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