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I am currently on a break, but accepting enquiries.

SPAce program Facilitation

SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems.

SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center and has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.

Who is SPACE for?

SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions - they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment. 

Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:

  • Separation anxiety

  • Social anxiety

  • Generalized anxiety

  • Fears and phobias

  • Panic disorder and Agoraphobia

  • Selective mutism

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Who participates in treatment?

Parents (and other caregivers) participate in SPACE treatment sessions. In most cases the child or adolescent does not need to attend the treatment sessions.

What happens in SPACE treatment?

Parents who participate in SPACE will learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety, OCD or related problems.

The treatment focuses on changes that parents can make to their own behavior, they do not need to make their child change. 

The two main changes that parents learn to make in SPACE treatment are to respond more supportively to their anxious child and to reduce the accommodations they have been making to the child symptoms.

Space sessions & How to enrol

SPACE is very dependant on need but typically takes about 8-10 weekly sessions, each session takes about 1 hour.

We will work together to design the program so that it is specific to your needs.

Follow-up can be scheduled at anytime and check in calls are a great way to support you in between our sessions.

Sessions cost NZD$120 plus GST per hour.

I offer a limited number of free or lower cost sessions to those that are in need, please feel free to contact me to find out more.

Bookings can be made via the contact form on the next page.

Sessions are conducted online.

I am happy to meet with you in person dependant on need and availability.

“We think that children act, whereas what they mostly do is react. Parents who realise this acquire a powerful tool. By noticing their own responses to the child, rather than fixating on the child’s responses to them, they free up tremendous energy for growth.”
— Gabor Maté

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