“Krissy has seen so many families TRANSFORM that she holds this belief and knowingness when she works with your family.”

After almost 30 years in the adolescent and young adult treatment field, Krissy has devoted her career to supporting parents to bring their kids home from treatment. She is the author of The Parallel Process, a landmark book that teaches parents how to grow alongside their struggling adolescent or young adult child in treatment. With the right support, coaching and scaffolding in the home, young people can integrate the gains of treatment into the home environment, to become regulated, reconnected and accountable. With the right parenting responses, the stuck parent-child relationship can be transformed. Parents can move from enmeshed and transactional relationships with their kids to sharing and connection through establishing heathy emotional boundaries.

Parallel Process Transitions/Reset is a 90-day parent coaching home transition program. Parallel Process Transitions helps parents set up the home environment to successfully transition their child home from treatment. Through individualized phased based home contracts, weekly parent coaching to guide parents to implement the home plan, and external team support calls, Parallel Process Transitions will help build a new foundation for your family. Krissy coaches parents in the Parallel Process curriculum to help parents re-write the parent-child script and reach new outcomes in the parent-child relationship. The Parallel Process container helps parents emulate what worked in treatment to help their kids transfer their skills from treatment to mainstream and real-world settings.

Who we Serve

Parallel Process Transitions helps parents of preteens, adolescents and young adults successfully transition their children from a treatment setting to a mainstream setting whether it is home, boarding school, college or to independence. If you do not need a treatment transition but you have another type of transition or need to do a RESET in your home, Krissy can work in the same program container to do a 3-month reset for your child and family.

This 90-day program includes:

  1. Parenting Curriculum: Parents will have access to the ecourse TRANSFORM YOUR PARENTING. This Parallel Process Intensive coaches parents on how to emotionally un-enmesh from their child, how to step into their parental authority, how to attune emotionally to their teen or young adult, how to set behavioral boundaries and how to value struggle. This course is the Parallel Process curriculum essential to home transitions that parents can listen to, to grow alongside their child coming home from treatment. Krissy will be coaching parents from this curriculum.

  2. Individualized Home Contracts: After 20 years of parent coaching and developing and refining home contracts, Krissy helps parents develop individualized and effective phase-based contracts (that will change over the 90 days) that create the appropriate structure, scaffolding, and support in the home. Parallel Process contracts allow parent to step out of autopilot, reactive, enmeshed or enabling responses to their child. Parents will feel empowered to regain their parental authority in the home.

  3. Parent Coaching: Parents will meet with Krissy in weekly parent coaching sessions. Each week, Krissy will help parents unpack stuck patterns and support parents to implement the home plan and trust the process. Krissy works with the Parallel Process curriculum to help parents achieve new outcomes in the parent-child relationship.

  4. Treatment Integration: One of the most important aspects of home transitions that is frequently missed is integrating the skills learned in treatment into the home or mainstream setting. Krissy works with the child’s treatment program and therapist to understand their progress and specific skills set they have developed in treatment. It is critical that healthy coping skills are highlighted and brought into the home for daily integration.

  5. Emergency Support:  Crisis support Is available to parents as needed and Krissy is also available to coach parents through challenges that come up between sessions.

  6. Home Treatment team: Krissy works together and collaborates with the home treatment team. Krissy communicates with home therapists, mentors and/or educational consultants as needed during the 90-day transition.

 Please reach out if you are interested in Parallel Process Transitions. 

krissy@parallel-process.com  • 802-595-5116 

If you would like to secure your spot, parents need to fill out the paperwork and pay in full. Once they do, parents will have access to begin the e-course Transform Your Parenting. The 90 days will begin roughly 2 weeks before your child’s scheduled home transition.

If the transition is more than 3 months out, parents can complete the paperwork and pay a deposit to secure their spot, and have access to the e-course.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Parallel Process Transitions is a program designed to empower the parent to set up the home with right structure and support, to have a successful transition for their child. This includes individualized contracts that change over the course of 90 days, a Parallel Process Parenting Curriculum, weekly parent coaching, treatment integration, emergency support and collaboration with the home treatment team.

  • Parallel Process Transitions works with parents and with other members of the home team, not directly with the child. Krissy worked for 11 years in a transition program with mentor support. Krissy found that requiring a mentor was not always effective. Many teens and young adults went through the motions, lacked engagement, and frequently under-utilized the mentor support. When there is a strong fit with a mentor, this can be a productive therapeutic relationship. Although Krissy highly recommends parents seek out a mentor and therapeutic support for their child (that the child feels comfortable and engaged with), this is not necessary for a successful home transition. Krissy is also available to assist in this process of finding a mentor or therapy support for your child.

  • What distinguishes Parallel Process Transitions, is that the program is founded on the Parallel Process curriculum and content. Parents will have access to Krissy’s comprehensive ecourse Transform Your Parenting which has all the Parallel Process content. Krissy will be coaching parents out of this curriculum so parent can build new skills and learn new responses and change the parent-child script. Krissy frequently uses role-plays and other techniques to help parents practice and have a felt sense of how to shift out of stuck patterns with their struggling child. Krissy specifically teaches how to effectively hold boundaries and how to hold kids accountable per their individualized home contracts. This is an empowering process and allows parents to step back into their parental authority!

  • Family patterns change when parents commit to a new home plan and follow it. This is not as easy as it sounds, and Krissy is there to unpack what is coming up each week so parents can stay on track implementing the home plan. Consistency, repetition, co-parenting, working on triggers, trusting the process and parent accountability are all critical to having new outcomes. Krissy has been doing this work since 2006 and is skilled in coaching parents to get to a new place in their family and home. Krissy has seen so many families transform that she holds this belief and knowingness when she works with your family. An example is Krissy has frequently heard statements such as, “there is no more drama in the home.”

  • There are two reasons home transitions may not be successful. (1) The child came home from treatment pre-maturely or the child came home and regressed to the same pre-treatment place. This happen when the child is not stable enough to follow a home plan or engage in mainstream settings such as going to school, doing activities, and engaging with peers. (2) The parent does not follow or hold their child accountable to the new home plan. When this happens it is very hard to have a new consistent response from parents which can cause regression and backsliding into old patterns in the family system.

  • Great question! Parallel Process Transitions is a 3-month parent coaching container to create a new plan for a child. If you are not in a formal home transition from a treatment program but you have another type of transition or need to do a RESET in your home, Krissy can work in the same program container to do a 3 month reset for your child and family with the same program focuses: parenting curriculum, individualized home contracts, parent coaching to put the plan into action and weekly sessions to follow through on plan. Please reach out to Krissy if this is something you are interested in.

  • After the 90 day program is complete, the aim of Parallel Process Transitions is that your child has stabilized in the home, is responding to and mostly following the structure of the home plan, is mainstreamed into school, sports or other activities, is more regulated and moves through conflicts or setbacks quicker and is showing more ownership and engagement in their life.

  • Parents can extend on a monthly basis after the 90 days is complete or sign up for as needed sessions.