SPACE Treatment for Parents in Westchester, NY
SPACE Treatment
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
SPACE is a parent-based treatment for childhood and teen anxiety. It helps parents respond in ways that support resilience, confidence, and lasting change. It can be used even when your child or teen is not in individual therapy.
You may be here because
Your child’s anxiety may be showing up in ways that have become difficult to manage. They may need frequent reassurance, avoid things that feel uncomfortable, struggle with separation, or react strongly when something feels scary. You may be doing more and more to help while wondering whether some of those patterns are making it harder for things to change.
When SPACE May Be Helpful
SPACE may be helpful when anxiety is interfering with daily life in ways that feel hard to shift.
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frequent reassurance-seeking
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separation anxiety
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school avoidance or distress
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social anxiety
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specific fears or phobias
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anxiety that has started to shape family routines
How SPACE Treatment Works
In SPACE treatment, the focus is on how parents respond to their child’s anxiety. Together, we look at where anxiety has started to shape how the family responds and make small, deliberate changes over time.
Notice the pattern
Respond supportively
Make gradual changes
Identify where anxiety, reassurance, avoidance, and accommodation have begun to shape everyday routines.
Use responses that acknowledge your child’s distress while communicating confidence in their ability to cope.
Reduce accommodations thoughtfully so your child can build greater flexibility and independence over time.
What Makes SPACE Different
The work is with parents
SPACE helps parents make changes to responses and accommodations that may be unintentionally keeping anxiety in place.
It can stand on its own
Parents can participate in SPACE even when their child or teen is not in individual therapy with me.
Learn More About SPACE
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD by Eli Lebowitz
Contact
83 S Bedford Road
Suite 105
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
914-296-0760
CAITLIN
MCNALLY
LCSW
Warm, evidence-based therapy for children and teens in Westchester, NY.
Serving clients virtually throughout NY & CT.
