feels stuck and wonders if their family needs additional help.feels curious, confused, or concerned about their child’s behavior.is seeking to hone parenting skills. is experiencing unhelpful family patterns.wants to learn more about their child, themselves, and their family system.feels stuck and wonders if their family needs additional help.
Parents and caregivers who feel stuck and wonder if their family needs additional help; those who feel curious, confused, or concerned about their child’s behavior; anyone experiencing unhelpful family patterns; or those seeking to hone parenting skills and simply learn more about their child, themselves, and their family system.
How we serve
Help
Education and information
Developing concrete strategies
Tailor-made planning
Hope
Research-based strategies
Reframing issues at hand
Utilizing a strengths-based approach
Heart
Perspective
Understanding
Compassion
Is My Family Touchstone the right fit for your family at this time?
You may need to first begin with other services, if you are or anyone in your family is:
Experiencing food or home insecurity.
Experiencing physical or mental harm.
In the midst of trauma or extreme stress.
Experiencing major illness, diagnosis, or chronic illness.
Seeking support for a mental health diagnosis.
Too busy to schedule an appointment.
If you are in crisis or find yourself struggling with any of the above circumstances, please consider contacting your pediatrician, relevant school, or a hospital. Additionally, local resources you might find helpful are WIC, Housing Authorities, community mental and behavioral health services, the Public Health Department, providers of legal aid, state childcare associations, and parent support organizations.
How we can help
Family consultation
Family consulting is a relationship designed to support the work of learning new ways to build understanding, closeness, joy, and lasting positive changes within your family. Through online sessions, we will discuss current challenges, identify strengths, develop goals, and create an action plan with concrete strategies that are aligned with your family’s values. During one-on-one sessions, you can expect to receive:
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Focused listening and clarifying questions as we explore core issues creating challenges in your family’s daily life.
Assistance with identifying your primary goals and values, prioritizing them to align with your family’s path, and outlining concrete steps to achieve them.
Current research-based strategies that strengthen parent-child connections and build resilient families, as well as support with assimilating this new information into your plan moving forward.
A wealth of resources regarding the science of human development, family dynamics, and effective communication that serve as fundamentals to effective strategies.
Encouragement, hope, and compassion as we find a way through present challenges.
The development of an informed perspective that enhances closeness and attunement with loved ones, as well as a plan for self-care through your own process.
The highest level of confidentiality regarding our sessions and overall journey together.
$175
for a 50-minute session with Bess Windecker-Nelson, Ph.D.
Ready to start your family’s journey? Schedule your 50-minute session with Bess Windecker-Nelson, Ph.D.
Office hours
If you would like to connect and discuss whether My Family Touchstone could be the right fit for your family, concerns about the consultation fee, or any other questions, please consider signing up for a 25-minute check-in during weekly office hours.
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These complimentary consultations are one-on-one and confidential (limit 3 per family). This short consultation may provide you with:
Resources, courses, articles, and relevant helpful information.
Highlighted next steps and clarity around whether My Family Touchstone can be of further help.
An advocate to point you in the right direction.
Schedule your complimentary 25-minute consultation call with Bess Windecker-Nelson, Ph.D.
