Online therapy for parents

Parenting a child with mental health challenges can be isolating, overwhelming, and emotionally exhausting. Your child's therapist is focused on your child — but who's focused on you?

Having your own therapist gives you a confidential space to process your own stress, guilt, and worry without burdening your child or partner. Research consistently shows that parental mental health directly impacts child outcomes.

Family therapy involves the whole family in sessions together. Therapy for parents is just for you — a private space to work through your own anxiety, stress, and emotions related to parenting and beyond.

Many parents find that having their own therapist makes them more effective in family sessions and more emotionally available at home.

Your sessions are fully confidential and protected under HIPAA. Nothing you share will be communicated to your child's therapist or anyone else without your explicit written consent.

If you'd like your therapist to coordinate with your child's care team, that's an option — but it's always your choice.

That feeling is incredibly common — and it's one of the biggest barriers parents face. The truth is, you don't have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Even high-functioning parents carry invisible weight.

Therapy isn't a sign that you're failing. It's a sign that you care enough about your family to invest in yourself.

Yes. We accept most major insurance plans, and therapy for parents is billed as individual therapy — which is covered by most plans. You can check your specific coverage on our cost estimator page.

If your plan isn't accepted, our team can help you explore out-of-network benefits or other options.

All Emora sessions are virtual, so you can attend from home, your car, or wherever you have 50 minutes of privacy. We offer evening and weekend appointments specifically for working parents.

Many parents schedule their sessions right after dropping their child off or during lunch breaks. Flexibility is built into how we work.

Whatever matters most to you. Common topics include managing anxiety about your child's diagnosis, navigating co-parenting disagreements, setting boundaries, processing guilt, and rediscovering your own identity beyond parenthood.

Your therapist will follow your lead while also helping you build concrete coping strategies you can use right away.

Each parent would have their own dedicated therapist. This ensures you each have a truly private, unbiased space. If you and your partner want to work on relationship dynamics together, we can connect you with a couples therapist separately.

Having individual therapists actually strengthens your relationship by giving each of you the tools to show up better for each other.