We offer support to parents who are navigating difficult behaviors in their children, parent-child attachment and relationship issues, navigating life after trauma, or challenges related to foster care and adoption. Let us help you build stronger, healthier relationships with your children. 

Maybe you were traumatized as a child and don't want to pass this on to your own child, or your child has experienced trauma. Perhaps you've thought, "I don't want to do to them what was done to me!" We can help you heal not only for you, but also for the children you love, and for the next generation! 

While trauma often begins in relationships, it can also stem from systemic injustice and discrimination. Parents from marginalized communities—whether due to race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, ability, religion, or culture—often carry the dual burden of personal trauma and chronic stress from ongoing bias and exclusion.

For Black, Biracial, Indigenous, and other parents of color, this includes the weight of historical and ancestral trauma—generations of loss, violence, and systemic oppression. Parenting under these conditions creates a heightened, often invisible, strain on emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.

At Safe Haven Psychology Center, we honor these realities and provide a space to explore, process, and heal—rooted in justice, cultural awareness, and deep respect for your lived experience.

Parenting after the loss or separation from a biological parent comes with unique challenges. At Safe Haven Psychology Center, we understand the complex emotional needs of adoptive and foster families. With specialized training from UCLA TIES for Families, we offer adoption-sensitive care that supports attachment, healing, and connection.

Whether you're navigating behavioral struggles, grief, disrupted placements, or the emotional impact of the foster/adoption process, we're here to help your family grow stronger—together.

Curious about the 7 (or 8) core issues in adoption? Read more on our blog. 

You've made it past infancy. Phew! Now comes the toddler and school years with new challenges. Tantrums. Social Anxiety. Defiance. Outbursts. Tears. Dysregulation galore. And not just for your child! You might find yourself struggling to find calm in the chaos or knowing how to support an anxious child. You don't need to face this alone. The expert help of a psychologist can help you find your confidence, joy, and calm so that your child can too! We specialize in working with parents, kids, and families dealing with:

• Trauma

• Anxiety including school refusal

• Tantrums, meltdowns, angry outbursts, and aggression

SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is a parent-based treatment designed to help children and teens with anxiety, OCD, and related challenges. Rather than focusing on changing the child’s behavior directly, SPACE teaches parents how to respond in a supportive way while gradually reducing accommodations—things they do to help their child avoid anxiety. By shifting their own behaviors, parents can help their child build resilience, confidence, and independence, even without the child participating in therapy directly.  

Combining a reflective-functioning enhancement approach with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is one way we work with parents and children. PCIT is an evidence-based parent coaching model of therapy for young kids (ages 18 months to 8 years old) who struggle with behaviors like tantrums, angry outbursts, and difficulty listening and getting along with others.