Parent Consultation for Child Behavior and Emotional Support Services

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Guidance for Parents & Families

Parent Consultation

Parent consultation helps families better understand behavior, emotions, and challenges at home or school while creating healthier responses and stronger parent-child relationships.

Parent consultation is often most useful when you’ve already put a great deal of thought and effort into helping your child, but the same difficulties continue. Sometimes this shows up at home. Other times, things are mostly manageable at home but problems emerge at school. The concerns may involve learning, attention, school attendance, behavior, or emotional reactions that feel hard to steady.

In many cases, the issue isn’t a lack of effort. It’s that something about how the situation is unfolding hasn’t yet been clearly understood. Certain patterns take hold and repeat, even when everyone is trying to do the right thing.

Understanding Behavior and Underlying Patterns
Our work is to look closely at what is actually happening—how interactions unfold, where they break down, and what keeps them going. I draw on both behavioral and psychoanalytic perspectives to understand what is happening in real time, as well as the less obvious dynamics underneath it.

The aim is not to offer general advice, but to arrive at a clearer understanding that allows you to respond differently in the moments that matter.

Over time, this work is not only about helping your child, but about establishing a way of relating that is more stable, more effective, and ultimately more satisfying.

In some situations, I work with parents on their own. In others, I meet with parents alongside a child’s treatment to help make sense of what is developing and to support the progress of the work.

Dan Sutleman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW

Dan Sutelman LICSW