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Parenting Support in Coral Gables: PCIT & SPACE

The most powerful person in your child's treatment is you. Our parent-based programs prove it — with evidence to back it up.

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The Benefits

The Benefits of
Parent-Based Treatment

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Change without
the waitlist fight

Your child doesn't have to buy in, open up, or even attend. In PCIT and SPACE, parents are the treatment — and it works.

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Skills you keep
forever

You learn concrete, practiced techniques — not vague advice — that keep working long after the program ends, and for every child in the house.

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A calmer
home

Fewer battles, shorter meltdowns, warmer connection. Families consistently describe the change as life-altering.

The Stakes

When You've Tried Everything

Sticker charts, time-outs, taking away the tablet, giving the tablet back, gentle parenting scripts at midnight — most parents who call us have tried everything the internet offers. The problem isn’t your effort. It’s that generic advice isn’t a protocol. PCIT and SPACE are structured, coached, evidence-based programs — and that difference is everything.

The Programs

What Are PCIT and SPACE?

PCIT (Parent-Child Interaction Therapy) is a coached program for young children with big behaviors: defiance, aggression, and endless power struggles. SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is a parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety, developed at the Yale Child Study Center. In both, we coach you — live and specifically — to respond in ways that change your child’s behavior from the outside in.
Parent-based work at Uptown Psychology includes:
  • PCIT for behavior challenges in young children
  • SPACE for childhood anxiety and OCD
  • Live, specific coaching — not generic advice
  • Structured skills you practice between sessions
  • Progress tracking so you see what's changing
  • Parent counseling for stress and consistency
Programs are available in person in Coral Gables and virtually across Florida — and virtual delivery works remarkably well for parent-based treatment.

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What Can Parent-Based Treatment Help With?

Parents come to us dealing with:
  • Defiance and constant power struggles
  • Meltdowns and aggression in young children
  • A child whose anxiety runs the family schedule
  • Endless reassurance-seeking
  • School refusal driven by anxiety
  • Bedtime and separation battles
  • Sibling conflict that never stops
  • Feeling like you're failing as a parent

Not sure whether your child needs their own therapist or whether a parent-based program fits better? That’s exactly what the free consultation is for — honest guidance on the right starting point. Often the answer is a combination with child therapy.

The Programs

Which Program
Fits Your Family?

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Best for roughly ages 2–7 when defiance, aggression, or tantrums dominate daily life. You interact with your child while a therapist coaches you in real time — building warmth first, then effective limits. Read our full PCIT guide.

Best when anxiety is steering the household: reassurance loops, avoidance, school refusal, separation battles. Parents learn to reduce the accommodations that feed anxiety while increasing support — no child participation required. Read our SPACE explainer.

For everything in between: consistency between caregivers, screen time standoffs, routines, and supporting a child with ADHD or learning differences. Practical, judgment-free, and specific to your family.

Many families pair parent work with individual therapy for their child — the two reinforce each other, and we coordinate both under one roof.

Parenting Support in Florida

Why Coral Gables Parents Choose Uptown Psychology

Parent-based treatment requires clinicians trained in the specific protocols — PCIT and SPACE are structured programs, not parenting tips. We deliver them faithfully, warmly, and without a drop of judgment about how hard this actually is.

Parents value that we:
  • Deliver real protocols, not recycled advice
  • Coach specifically — your child, your situations
  • Never judge — we've heard it all
  • Offer virtual sessions that fit real schedules
  • Track progress so you see the change
You are not the problem. You are the solution — you’ve just been working without the manual. We’ll hand it to you.

Our Approach

How Parent-Based Treatment Starts

Free 15-Minute
Consultation

Describe what home life looks like right now. We’ll tell you honestly which program fits — PCIT, SPACE, guidance, or child therapy.

Intake &
Program Plan

A structured intake maps the patterns at home, and we set concrete goals: fewer meltdowns, calmer mornings, an anxious child braving school again.

Coached Sessions &
a Calmer Home

Weekly coached sessions build your skills step by step, with real practice between sessions — and change you can measure at home.
You don't need more advice.
You need a protocol that works. This is it.
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Questions About PCIT & SPACE

For SPACE — no, the treatment works entirely through parents. For PCIT, your child attends and plays while you’re coached in the moment. Either way, the child never has to “want therapy” for treatment to work.

PCIT is designed for young children, roughly ages 2–7. SPACE was developed for children and adolescents whose anxiety affects family life. On the consultation call we’ll confirm fit for your child’s age and situation.

Yes — both PCIT and SPACE are supported by strong clinical research. SPACE was developed and tested at the Yale Child Study Center; PCIT has decades of evidence behind it for early childhood behavior problems.

Yes. Both programs adapt well to telehealth — coaching you in your actual home, where the behaviors happen, is often an advantage. We serve families across Florida virtually.

No, we do not accept insurance. You may contact your insurance provider regarding potential out-of-network reimbursement.

Contact Us

Request a free consultation or contact us
with questions.

Call Us

786-977-3242

Email Us

info@uptownpsychologyny.com

New York Location

17 E 67th Street, Suite 1D, New York, New York 10065

Miami Location

3081 Salzedo St Suite 202, Coral Gables, FL 33134

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Uptown Psychology is Now in Florida!

Offering therapy & child evaluations at our Coral Gables location.
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