• Your child is afraid of the dark. Do you go to all lengths to ensure that your he is never in the dark?

  • Does your adult child still live at home?

  • Your child is afraid of being alone. Do you go to all lengths to ensure that they are never alone?

  • Do you help your child avoid situations that create anxiety?

  • Do you find yourself constantly reassuring your child?

  • Your child prefers certain foods. Do you go to all lengths to ensure that they are never without them?

  • Does your child need to be with you in order to sleep?

Evidence-Based Treatment Program for Anxious Child, Teen and Young Adult Emotions

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, we can support you in learning the skills to help your child overcome anxiety related problems, such as:

Separation Anxiety

Generalized Anxiety

School Refusal

Picky Eating

Social Anxiety

Phobia and Panic

Failure to Thrive

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Yale University Evidence-Based Program

SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions.

  • SPACE is a parent-based treatment program for children, adolescents, and adult-dependent children with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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

  • SPACE treatment has been found very effective in adult (18yo+) dependent children. We often work with the parents of kids who are still living at home, have withdrawn from school, are unemployed, etc.

  • 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.

  • Holly was trained by Dr. Eli Lebowitz and is a certified provider of the Yale SPACE treatment program. Dr. Lebowitz, and the clinical staff at Yale Child Study Center, developed the SPACE program.

  • SPACE has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.

  • EBTs are treatments that are based on scientific evidence. Research studies have shown that some treatments work better than others for specific problems that children and adolescents experience. Treatments are compared in large studies called clinical trials that involve dozens of children or families in each study. They share a similar main problem, like OCD or other anxious behaviors. The researchers randomly assign the family to receive Treatment A or Treatment B (for example). If Treatment A helps children more than Treatment B, then Treatment A gains in importance as a potential EBT. As more studies support the EBT Treatment A, its usefulness and the conditions under which it is most appropriate grows