Office Hours - For Parents

Service Description

Office Hours is a guided, live conversation space for estranged parents who are seeking steadiness, clarity, and a more grounded way forward. Office Hours will also be scheduled at a separate time for struggling and estranged adult children. We use this approach to ensure both parties can safely and openly discuss their challenges. Our conversations are shaped by what you've learned through the When Our Adult Children Walk Away services. As you are aware, our work is rooted in the reality that estrangement is not a single event, but a continuum of relationship fracture that can shift, stabilize, and, in many cases, repair. Each Office Hours gathering is coached as a question and answer conversation led by me, Dr. Together, my once estranged adult daughter and I, offer both the estranged parent's' and the adult child's perspectives in real time, without taking sides, assigning blame, or reinforcing harmful narratives. My professional work is grounded in healthy relationship dynamics, estrangement grief, and healthy communication behavior, including the application of the Wiley DiSC interpersonal behavior (i.e., communication) assessment to help parents better understand how their communication patterns are experienced by their adult children. This foundation guides every Office Hours conversation. Bri joins as a co-facilitator, bringing the lived perspective of an adult child. From time to time, additional guests or family members may join us to broaden the conversation. What We Focus On Office Hours will center on topics such as:  Themes from recent podcast episodes and YouTube content  Estrangement dynamics and the continuum of disconnection  Communication patterns and how they are interpreted across generations  Misaligned expectations, values, and boundaries  Thoughtful, regulated contact strategies  This is a space for learning, reflection, and recalibration.