Equinox Counseling & Wellness Center in Denver will be offering a complimentary parent workshop series to parents in the community.

Equinox parenting and mental health experts, Dr. Nancy Buck, Eileen Scheibe, LMFT, and Mary Marcantonio, will help parents identify and understand the complexities of mental, emotional and behavior health issues of their child. In addition, these seminars will explore how these issues relate to neuro-developmental disorders, neurodiversity, executive functioning, school refusal, anxiety, depression, and suicidality.

Participants will learn effective interventions, parenting responses, and how to begin to bring peace and healing into their home environment. The workshops identified below can be attended as a series, or as an individual workshop. Space is limited and advanced reservations are required. 

Workshop: Parent Leadership & the Family Healing Process

Starting at birth, children satisfy their basic need for safety and security with their parents. This is true for all adolescents and young adults including those with a chronic mental, emotional, cognitive and behavioral health needs. These parents may feel overwhelmed learning that their child manages her emotions and intense feelings differently. The results can be all members of the family feeling confused, unsafe and overwhelmed.

Parents, as the leaders within the family, hold the key for the positives changes that will lead the whole family to the best and most healing outcomes. However, these necessary new skills and strategies are not inherent for most parents. Many parents are using their usual parenting tools without positive results. They then feel frustrated and discouraged because doing what they have always done is not leading to the hoped for changes or improvement for anyone in the family. For some, this can lead to feeling angry, helpless and hopeless. The focus of this seminar will introduce parents to the necessary Parent Leadership strategies and skills resulting in the Family Healing Process.