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Parent and Family Coaching

Support for parents and caregivers navigating mental health or addiction challenges

Parent and Family Coaching provides steady, practical support for caregivers who want clearer guidance as they navigate the challenges their loved ones face. Many families are doing the best they can but feel unsure how to respond, how much to hold, or how to support progress without becoming overwhelmed. Coaching offers space to understand what is happening, strengthen communication, and build routines that support stability at home.

What This Service Provides

Parent and Family Coaching helps families develop clarity, consistency, and steadiness in their day-to-day interactions. Coaches work alongside parents and caregivers to understand current patterns and practice approaches that align with the client’s therapeutic work.

This includes:

Clarity and understanding

Guidance on what the client may be experiencing
Support interpreting behaviors through a clinical lens
Practical language to help families respond with steadines

Communication and relational support

Strategies for clearer, calmer communication
Tools to reduce conflict and reactivity
Approaches that support healthy boundaries and connection

Structure and family routines

Help establish predictable rhythms at home
Support for parents navigating expectations, responsibilities, and limits
Gentle accountability to sustain new patterns over time

Responsive guidance

Weekly adjustments based on what is happening in the home
Real-time strategies as challenges arise
Attention to the family’s capacity and current stress level

How This Supports Therapeutic Work

Families are often central to a client’s progress. Coaching helps parents, caregivers, and families understand therapeutic goals and apply them in daily life in ways that feel sustainable. When appropriate, coaches can collaborate with the client’s therapist to ensure the family’s efforts align with the clinical plan.

Parent and Family Coaching is provided by licensed clinicians who work in close partnership with our therapist-led leadership team. Coaches coordinate regularly with case managers and the broader care team to ensure everyone is aligned and responding thoughtfully to what is unfolding.

Therapist-led oversight and weekly supervision allow the team to notice unhelpful patterns early and adjust support with care. Decisions are made collaboratively and grounded in clinical context, helping families respond more consistently without feeling they have to manage everything themselves.

Parent and Family Coaching is designed to strengthen and support therapeutic work. It does not replace therapy.

Who This Service Is Right For

Parent and Family Coaching is a good fit for families who:

Feel unsure how to respond to their loved one’s behaviors or needs
Want steadier communication and clearer expectations at home
Are navigating transitions in treatment, school, or work
Need guidance without taking on the role of clinician
Feel overwhelmed by trying to hold structure or safety alone
Want to reduce patterns that create stress or conflict
Benefit from consistent support that adapts week by week

Parents and caregivers do not need to have all the answers. Coaching helps them feel more grounded and supported.

What to Expect

Families work consistently with the same coach, creating continuity and trust. Coaching is collaborative and shaped by what is happening in real time within the household.

Expect:

Regular sessions tailored to family needs and schedules, including a weekly 60-minute session
Two 15minute check-ins between sessions to support continuity and real time application of skills
Practical strategies that match the family’s capacity
Weekly review and recalibration as circumstances shift
Phone support when needed to provide guidance between sessions
Calm, steady communication and guidance
Respect for the family’s therapeutic relationships and privacy

Why Camden Case Management’s Approach Is Different

Camden Case Management’s model is grounded in clinical leadership. Our parent and family coaches are licensed clinicians who work in close collaboration with a therapist-led leadership team through ongoing consultation and shared clinical review. This structure supports thoughtful alignment with the client’s therapeutic work and the family’s unique dynamics.

Our adaptive, whole system approach allows plans to shift as needs evolve. By supporting both the client and the family and collaborating with therapists when appropriate, Camden Case Management offers a steady framework that helps families feel more equipped and less alone.

How to Get Started

Getting started begins with a conversation. Reach out to share what is happening and ask questions. We will talk together about whether Camden Case Management may be a good fit.