SPACE, Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions, is a 12-week program created by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center. It’s unique in that it’s a parent-based treatment to help treat children struggling with anxiety and OCD. It targets the accommodations caregivers may be making in reaction to their children’s anxiety. Ironically, these accommodations, while effective in short term reduction of distress, impact the family dynamics deeply and can actually perpetuate the anxious feelings.
Take a look at this interview with Margaret Lacy, LMHC, our Lead SPACE therapist.