SPACE is an evidence-based treatment that aims to help children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder by working directly with the child’s parents.

Space Treatment

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The children themselves aren’t required to attend sessions! Instead, parents work with trained SPACE clinicians to learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety, OCD and related problems.

SPACE therapy teaches parents how to change their own behavior and provide support while reducing the understandable accommodations they have been making to the child anxiety symptoms. The treatment is designed to be concrete, specific, and time limited.

Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:
  • Separation anxiety
  • Social anxiety
  • Generalized anxiety
  • Fears and phobias
  • Panic disorder and Agoraphobia
  • Selective mutism
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

SPACE treatment also has an adaptation for parents of struggling young adults.

Please contact us by phone or email for more information on SPACE and to schedule a consultation.