What is the SPACE Anxiety Treatment Program?

S.P.A.C.E. stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. It's a parent-led anxiety treatment program created by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Centre.

*** Sometimes I think the name makes this sound like a 'parenting program' - as if you've been parenting incorrectly - this is ABSOLUTELY not the case.

SPACE isn’t a parenting program. It’s a groundbreaking, research-backed program that empowers parents with tools to support their anxious child to overcome anxiety.

YOU come to the sessions - you AND your child change.

Instead of focusing on changing your child’s behaviour directly, SPACE helps you make small, strategic shifts in how you respond to your child’s anxiety. But the magic is that the child's behaviour, and anxiety, DOES CHANGE.

What I absolutely love about this program, as a parent of an anxious child, is that:

• I do all the work for her - and I get to feel how amazing it feels to be the one creating these changes

• I know how to deal with any new anxieties that might pop up

• My understanding about her anxiety has completely changed

• My anxiety about her anxiety has gone

• I don't feel like I'm treading on eggshells any more

• She doesn't have to agree or opt into any changes

• She doesn't need to feel like I'm taking her to "be fixed" somewhere

• IT WORKS!!!

It is this program that helped us to support our daughter to be able to move away from 'needing us' for 2-3 hours at bedtime, constantly calling for us and crying, to being able to calmly go to sleep within 20 minutes. Bedtime battles are a really common part of my work with other parents, and I LOVE to help parents get their evenings back, and their kids going to sleep without anxiety. Two weeks after doing this work with my daughter, she went on her first sleepover - something I couldn't have imagined she would be ready for for YEARS.

I'm on a mission to spread the word about this AMAZING treatment, because it is no exaggeration to say that it has changed our lives, and the lives of the other families I have supported. You can book a free call to see how this program, and the other tools I use, could help you and your child to thrive again.

And here's the official SPACE treatment website: click here