Loving Them, Guiding Them, Letting Them Grow

A 12-Week Live Online Therapeutic Group for Parents

Supporting your child’s growth while staying connected, setting boundaries and learning when to hold on — and when to let go.

Parenting changes constantly.

The child who once needed you for almost everything gradually begins to ask for more independence, more privacy, more space and more freedom to make their own choices. And while this development is natural, it can bring uncertainty, worry, conflict and sometimes a quiet sense of loss for parents.

Loving Them, Guiding Them, Letting Them Grow is a therapeutic group for parents who want to strengthen their relationship with their children while navigating boundaries, communication, changing needs and the emotional challenges of letting go.

The aim is not to become a perfect parent.

It is to develop a relationship in which love and guidance can coexist with trust, limits, independence and respect for your child’s growing identity.

When Parenting Begins to Feel More Complicated

You may recognise yourself if you often:

  • worry about whether you are making the right decisions as a parent

  • struggle to know when to intervene and when to step back

  • find it difficult to set limits without feeling guilty

  • feel that conversations with your child quickly turn into conflict

  • worry that boundaries may damage your relationship

  • feel anxious as your child becomes more independent

  • find yourself trying to prevent every mistake or disappointment

  • struggle when your child rejects your advice

  • feel responsible for your child’s emotions, choices or difficulties

  • notice that fear sometimes leads you to become more controlling than you would like

  • feel unsure how much freedom is appropriate

  • miss the closeness you once had

  • wonder how to stay connected while allowing your child to become their own person

Parenting often asks us to do two difficult things at the same time: to remain deeply connected and to gradually let go.

What We Will Explore

Across the 12-week therapeutic cycle, we will explore:

Love, protection & independence
Understanding the difference between protecting a child and preventing them from developing confidence, autonomy and resilience.

Boundaries without losing connection
Exploring how clear limits can create safety and stability without becoming rigid, punitive or emotionally distant.

Communication when emotions run high
Learning to recognise what happens beneath arguments, withdrawal, defensiveness and repeated misunderstandings.

The difficulty of letting go
Exploring the fears that may arise as children become more independent and begin making choices that parents cannot fully control.

Parental guilt & self-doubt
Understanding the pressure to “get everything right” and developing a more realistic and compassionate view of parenting.

When our own experiences enter the relationship
Recognising how our childhood, fears, expectations and unmet needs may influence the way we respond to our children.

Guidance versus control
Exploring how to offer direction, values and support while respecting a child’s developing identity and capacity to make choices.

Staying connected through change
Finding ways to preserve trust and emotional closeness as the parent-child relationship evolves.

In Positive Psychotherapy

Positive Psychotherapy views parenting not simply through problems or mistakes, but through capacities, relationships, expectations and balance.

Parents often bring important strengths to their families: love, responsibility, protection, loyalty, discipline, patience and commitment.

Yet even valuable capacities can become unbalanced.

Protection may become overprotection. Responsibility may become constant worry. Guidance may gradually become control. The wish to remain close may make it difficult to allow independence.

Therapeutic work therefore focuses on restoring balance.

It asks how parents can continue to offer love, structure and guidance while also allowing children the space to develop confidence, responsibility and their own sense of self.

It also creates room to explore the parent’s own needs, fears and expectations — because parenting is not only about understanding the child.

It is also about understanding what happens within us when our children begin to grow beyond the roles we once knew.

What This Group Can Help You Develop

The group can support you in developing:

  • clearer and healthier boundaries

  • more effective communication with your child

  • greater confidence in your parenting decisions

  • awareness of when fear or anxiety is influencing your responses

  • a healthier balance between protection and independence

  • reduced parental guilt and self-doubt

  • greater understanding of your child’s changing emotional needs

  • increased tolerance for disagreement and difference

  • awareness of your own parenting patterns

  • more confidence in allowing age-appropriate independence

  • stronger connection without over-control

  • greater trust in both yourself and your child

A Relationship That Grows With Them

Children do not need parents who never make mistakes.

They need relationships that can adapt.

As children grow, parenting gradually changes from doing everything for them, to standing beside them, and eventually trusting them to take more responsibility for their own lives.

Letting them grow does not mean loving them less.

Sometimes it means learning a new way to love them.

Group Details

12 Weekly Sessions
Saturdays | 17:30–19:00
90 minutes per session
Live Online
7 November 2026 – 6 February 2027

New participants join at the beginning of the 12-week therapeutic cycle, allowing the group to develop continuity, trust and a consistent therapeutic space.

Session Dates

November 2026
7 November
14 November
21 November
28 November

December 2026
5 December
12 December
19 December

Christmas & New Year Break
No sessions on 26 December 2026 and 2 January 2027

January 2027
9 January
16 January
23 January
30 January

February 2027
6 February

Fees & Payment Options

Pay Per Session
€30 per 90-minute session

Monthly Prepayment
€25 per session when all sessions scheduled for that month are paid together in advance.

The monthly prepayment option applies when all scheduled sessions within the calendar month are paid in advance.

Joining the Group

If you would like to participate, please complete the registration form below.