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For children and teens ages 3 to 17 going through a separation, a divorce, or two houses that don't feel like home yet.
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You've said "it's not your fault" more times than you can count.
He keeps asking anyway. Not always with words. Sometimes it's the way he checks your face when the other parent's name comes up, or the extra-good behavior that arrives out of nowhere, like he's trying to be easy enough to keep.
You watch her hold on a second too long at the car door on exchange days, and you drive away with your chest tight and the radio off. The teacher mentioned she cried through morning circle after the last drop-off. She never told you that. You heard it secondhand, from a stranger, about your own kid.
The questions come at bedtime, when you have the least left. Where will the dog live? Do I still get my birthday? And the one that stops you cold, asked casually, halfway through a book: was it because of me?
Or your teen went the other way. Quiet. Angry at whichever parent is safest to be angry at. "It's fine" through a closed door, while the grades and the friends and the sleep say it isn't.
And your own feelings are their own weight. The guilt that arrives on schedule every exchange day. The second-guessing. The way you scan your kid for damage, and hate yourself a little for doing it.
Everyone around you has a verdict. Kids are resilient. They'll adjust. As long as you're happy, they're happy. You want that to be true. Some nights you're not sure it is.
You're doing one of the hardest things a parent does: holding your kid together while your own life reorganizes. You don't have to do the holding alone.
I'm Hannah Ly, LMFT, founder of Your Therapy Nook. About one in five families who call us are somewhere in a separation. I've sat with the four-year-old building two houses in the sand with a line down the middle, and the fifteen-year-old who decided the divorce is one parent's fault because that's easier than holding it as nobody's.
My job is to give your child one space that belongs to neither house, and to help both of you understand what they're carrying through it.
It's not just me anymore. Every clinician here trained under me and I review every case weekly, so whoever your family is matched with, you're getting someone I'd trust with my own kids. I run every consultation myself, and you can request a specific clinician on the call.
The anxiety that was coming out sideways, the clinging, the accidents, the sleep trouble, starts to settle.
Drop-offs and transition days get easier.
The anger finds words instead of targets.
Your teen stops carrying the divorce as a case to be argued.
Your child starts to feel that loving both parents isn't a betrayal of either one.
Not just believe it. Feel it.
Schedule a Free 15-Minute ConsultationYour child isn't being difficult.
They're trying to make sense of a world that changed shape, and to adapt to it with tools they don't fully have yet.
Kids don't struggle with divorce because they're fragile. They struggle when nobody has helped them process what's happening and what it means for them. The clinginess, the accidents that came back, the sleep trouble, the anger, all of it is a child asking the same question in different languages: am I okay, and are you both still mine?
Therapy is where that question gets answered, in their language.
The first weeks after the announcement, when everyone is watching everyone. Getting support in early, before patterns set, is the version of this work with the most leverage.
The Sunday-night dread, the meltdown that bookends every exchange, the backpack that becomes a battleground. Transition days are where divorce lives for most kids, and they can get easier.
The accidents that came back, the sleep that fell apart, the clinging that looks like a younger kid's. Regression is a nervous system asking for reassurance, and it responds to this work quickly.
The teen who blames one parent, goes quiet, or carries the divorce like a case they're building. Teens get their own version of this work: private, direct, and not a place where anyone argues the facts of the marriage.
High-conflict co-parenting, messages passed through the child, a kid who has learned to manage two sets of feelings that aren't theirs to manage. We work on getting them out of the middle, and we stay out of it ourselves.
The new partner your child won't warm to, step-siblings, a second wedding, a new baby. Even good changes are losses to a kid, and having somewhere to say so makes the blending go better.
Your child gets one space in their week that is completely theirs. Not mom's house, not dad's house, no side to manage, nobody to protect.
In play therapy, the divorce comes out sideways, in the sand, in the dollhouse, in the story where the animal family splits up, and gets worked through at a distance that feels safe. Teens get a person to say the unsayable to: the anger, the loyalty binds, the things they'd never tell either of you because they love you both.
The loyalty bind loosening is most of the work.
Children do well here even when the adults are still working things out. What makes that possible is a few clear parameters, so we say them up front:
We work with both parents.
Both get parent coaching, and both hear what we're seeing. If it works better to meet with each of you separately, we will, and often that's the better setup.
Parent sessions are for your child.
They are not the place to settle the disagreement between the two of you. If a session turns into an argument, we will stop and move to separate meetings.
We stay out of the middle.
No sides, no relaying messages between households, and we don't ask your child to carry information from one house to the other.
We are treating clinicians only.
No custody evaluations, no letters or recommendations for court, and we don't testify voluntarily.
If the co-parenting relationship itself needs help,
that's a co-parenting counselor or a parenting coordinator, and we'll point you toward someone good.
One more thing, because it comes up. Sometimes a child starts showing feelings about the separation that are hard for a parent to watch, and the instinct is to shut it down or take it personally.
That reaction is human, and it's exactly what parent coaching is for. What we don't want is your child learning those feelings aren't allowed in front of you.
We talk about your child, your situation, and what the co-parenting piece looks like right now. It's a conversation, not an evaluation, and we'll talk through which clinician is the right match for your family.
With each parent separately where that's the better setup.
Play for younger kids, private and direct for teens.
Both parents, together or separately.
It depends on your custody situation. If you're married, one parent's consent is usually enough. If you're separated or divorced and share legal custody, we generally need consent from both parents before starting. If one parent has sole legal custody, that parent decides. We'll ask about your arrangement on the consultation call, and if there's a custody order, we follow what it says. Whatever the legal picture, therapy goes best when both parents let it happen.
Often, yes. A teen who has taken a side is usually holding the divorce the only way they can manage it, because blaming one parent is simpler than grieving something nobody caused. In their sessions, your teen gets a private place to hold the whole complicated thing without managing either parent's feelings. Most teens soften as that happens. It tends not to happen on a schedule, and it tends not to happen through being corrected at home.
It's common, and it's workable. Transition days concentrate everything hard about two homes into one moment, the goodbye, the switch in rules, the reminder that this is permanent. We work with your child on what the transitions bring up, and with both parents in coaching on how to run exchanges so they carry less charge.
No. We're treating clinicians only. We don't perform custody evaluations, write recommendations, or testify voluntarily, and keeping that boundary is part of what keeps the therapy safe for your child.
$200 to $270 per session depending on the clinician, private pay, superbills provided.
All of our clinicians work with divorce and family transitions every week, and the consultation call is where we figure out which one is the right match for your child.
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