Hope + Wellness

Therapy for parents

Parenting is hard — it’s okay to be overwhelmed. Just know you don’t have to go through it alone.

Parenthood is tough.

You want to do your best, but it feels like you are balancing a million things and not excelling at any of it. You can see how it affects you and your relationship with your child, and all you want is to be better for them. At the same time, you’ve also got to balance work and your other responsibilities. You want to begin therapy to help be the best version of yourself for them. You may also feel exhausted from lack of sleep, and burned out, leading to feelings of depression and anxiety. You want to feel like yourself again.

“The point of parenting is not to have all of the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.”
— Bridgett Miller

Kind, effective care tailored just for you

We support many parents with stress, depression, anxiety, adjustment concerns, work/life balance, identity, and feelings of overwhelm.

If you have been feeling this way, please know you are not alone. These feelings are natural. There is hope. Therapy can help you feel supported and connected back to yourself again. It can help you develop greater resources within yourself as well as finding ways to help manage all the stress you’ve been carrying.

we specialize in helping parents with

  • Exploring your values on parenting

  • Parenting skills that are aligned with your personal values

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Isolation

  • Exhaustion

  • Burn out

  • Identity Concerns

  • Balancing work, life, parenthood

  • Postpartum Struggles with Body Image

  • Relationship, Marital Stress and Concerns

  • Attachment Concerns, Struggles, and Fears that Arise From Being a Parent

  • Childhood Traumas

  • Intergenerational Trauma Related to Being a Parent

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent so just be a real one.”
— Sue Atkins

Therapy can help you feel like yourself again.

There is something beautiful inside you — something which has always been there. Therapy with Hope+Wellness can help you discover and connect to this strength within you. With support, you will feel connected to yourself again, living a meaningful life both as a individual and parent.

With Hope+Wellness, you’ll receive compassionate care and support, personalized and tailored just for you. We use evidence-based therapies drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectic behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and more.

We will work together to help you:

  • ​Feel confident and effective as a parent

  • Exploring ways to find your authentic voice as a parent

  • Identify, voice, and gain insight into your emotions

  • Develop helpful coping skills for depression and anxiety

  • Improve sleep and overall wellness

  • Connect to yourself and life again

  • ​Find peace and joy

  • Communicate your needs with others, including your own parents, in-laws, and partner

  • Manage moods and irritability

  • Find and connect to support

  • Let go of guilt, shame, and embarassment

  • Cultivate an open and supportive space just for you, where you feel understood, heard, seen, and supported completely for being you

  • Connect to supportive and helpful resources

  • Engage in self-care given all the limited time you have

It is important that you find the therapist that is the best fit for you. Therefore, we invite you to learn more about us, read our blog, and to read about getting started and frequently asked questions. When you are ready, you can reach out to us to ask a question or to schedule an initial consultation appointment.

“What if we realized that we don’t need to be an all-singing, all-dancing super parent to be a good parent? By placing less presssure on ourselves and our little ones, and giving them the space to blossom, we can all find greater balance.”
— Niki Brantmark

You are not alone. We are here to help.

Hope+Wellness provides therapy for parents with stress and adjustment concerns, depression, anxiety, and other related concerns. We serve Falls Church, McLean, and Arlington, as well as Tysons Corner, Vienna, Reston, Great Falls, Fairfax, Merrifield, and Alexandria, as well as Washington DC and Maryland. In person and telehealth services are available.

We provide exceptional psychotherapy services to empower people to live happier, healthier lives. Our services are grounded in evidence-based treatments that suggest an important interconnectedness between mind, body, life experience, and wellness, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based therapies. We will work together to help you heal and develop the skills to live fully aware, fully resilient, fully peaceful, mindful, and alive.