Child Behavior Problems & Parenting Concerns
Our team includes licensed therapists with experience in child development, family systems, and behavioral health. We offer a supportive, nonjudgmental space where you can explore your concerns, learn new tools, and feel more confident in your parenting.
Instead of focusing on surface behaviors alone, we help you explore what’s driving the behavior underneath, emotionally, developmentally, and relationally. This approach helps create more effective, lasting change than reward charts or punishment systems alone.
- Your child’s emotional world and attachment style
- Environmental or sensory factors contributing to behavior
- Family dynamics, communication patterns, and stressors
- Each parent’s experience, history, and values
- Strengths and protective factors already in place
- Frequent meltdowns, aggression, or emotional dysregulation
- Trouble with routines (getting ready, transitions, bedtime, etc.)
- Picky eating or stressful mealtimes
- Difficulty with focus, impulsivity, or hyperactivity
- Anxiety, separation challenges, or school refusal
- Sibling rivalry and constant fighting
- Parenting after trauma, loss, or divorce
- Feeling disconnected from your child or burned out as a parent
In our work together, we focus on:
- Building a shared understanding of the problem
- Helping parents feel grounded and empowered
- Teaching regulation and communication tools
- Supporting co-regulation and repair within the family system
- Offering clear, actionable strategies that can be used at home
We never blame or shame parents. Instead, we support you with kindness, curiosity, and research-backed interventions that meet your family where you are.
In our first few sessions, we may explore topics like:
- What your child’s behavior might be trying to communicate
- How your nervous system responds to parenting stress
- What’s been helpful or unhelpful so far—and why
- Which strategies align with your values and family culture
This process is not about perfection. It’s about creating more safety, understanding, and flexibility for both you and your child.
If you’ve ever thought:
- “Why is my child like this?”
- “Am I doing something wrong?”
- “I’ve tried everything and nothing works.”
- “Other families seem to have it together—why is this so hard for us?”
…you’re in good company. Parenting is deeply personal and often isolating. Our job is to come alongside you with perspective and support. We’ll help you sort through the noise, trust your instincts, and feel more equipped to parent with confidence.
You might benefit from support if:
- You dread morning or bedtime because it feels chaotic or tense
- You feel like you’re always yelling, negotiating, or giving in
- You and your partner don’t agree on how to handle behavior
- Your child seems anxious, angry, or withdrawn
- You want to model healthy coping but feel lost on how to do that
We’ll help you shift out of survival mode and into a space of grounded, connected parenting.
- What to do when your child has a meltdown in public
- How to set limits without shaming or punishing
- Using co-regulation to calm intense emotions
Family mealtime struggles
- Managing stress and pressure around eating
- Encouraging variety without power struggles
- How your own history with food impacts feeding your child
Parenting under stress
- Caring for yourself while parenting through burnout
- Navigating grief, divorce, or mental health concerns in the home
- Rebuilding routines and trust after conflict or trauma
Each family’s needs are different. Our job is to listen, learn, and offer support that feels both strategic and compassionate.
PCIT works by strengthening the parent-child relationship and teaching caregivers effective, positive discipline strategies. During sessions, a therapist coaches parents in real-time as they interact with their child. This live support helps parents build skills in the moment and apply them with confidence at home.
The therapy is structured in two phases:
- Child-Directed Interaction (CDI): Focuses on enhancing the bond between parent and child through play, praise, and positive attention.
- Parent-Directed Interaction (PDI): Teaches parents how to give clear instructions, set limits, and follow through with consistent, calm consequences.
Virtual PCIT: Support from the Comfort of Home
At Beyond Measure we provide virtual PCIT. Virtual PCIT offers the same real-time coaching and proven techniques, using secure video technology. In fact, conducting sessions in your child’s natural environment can make it easier to apply new skills in daily routines and allow our therapists to help you overcome the challenges you are facing specific to your home environment.
Tailored Support for Every Child
While PCIT follows a structured and evidence-based model, our therapists understand that every child is unique. We are experienced in adapting PCIT to meet the needs of children who have experienced trauma, or have neurodevelopmental differences, including ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), speech and language delays, and sensory challenges. With thoughtful adjustments and a flexible, compassionate approach, we ensure that each family receives support that fits their child’s strengths, needs, and communication style. Our goal is to make PCIT accessible, effective, and empowering for all families.
PCIT empowers caregivers with tools that improve behavior, reduce stress, and increase confidence, all while creating a more positive and connected family environment.
Let’s work together to build the kind of home environment where connection comes before control, and where your child can feel safe, seen, and supported.
📞 Call: (650) 332-9583
🖥️ Book Online: Free 15-min Consultation
📩 Email: info@beyondmeasuresfbay.com
your healing journey today.