Parenting Through the Lens of Neuroscience, Attachment, and Connection
"The goal is not to raise perfect children. The goal is to raise children who feel safe enough to become their authentic selves."
Parent Coaching & Advice
Your children are the most important thing to you. You want the best for them.
Supporting You as You Support Your Child
No one knows your child quite like you do—their personality, quirks, strengths, fears, sensitivities, and heart. You have spent countless hours loving them, caring for them, comforting them, watching them grow, and trying to understand what they need. You care deeply about their well-being and want them to feel confident, connected, and equipped to navigate the world.
And yet, loving your child deeply doesn't mean you'll always know what to do when they are struggling.
The truth is, most of us were never actually taught how to parent. We enter parenthood carrying our own histories, relationships, beliefs, and experiences of being parented. Without realizing it, we may repeat the communication styles, expectations, coping strategies, or relationship patterns we grew up with—even when we genuinely want to do things differently.
Parenting can also bring parts of ourselves to the surface that we didn't know were there. A child's anxiety, sadness, anger, withdrawal, defiance, or sensitivity can stir up our own fears and uncertainties. We may find ourselves wondering: Am I responding the right way? Should I give them space or step in? Am I being too strict—or not firm enough? Why can't I seem to reach them?
These questions don't mean you've failed as a parent. They often mean you're paying attention and recognize that something needs to change.
Sometimes the most meaningful way to help a child is to support the adults who love them. Parent consultation creates a space to slow things down, understand what may be happening beneath your child's behavior, and become more intentional about how you respond. Together, we can look at patterns within the family, identify what is working and what isn't, and develop practical ways to strengthen communication, connection, boundaries, and emotional safety.
This work isn't about blaming parents or searching for everything you've done "wrong." It's about becoming more conscious of the patterns we inherited, keeping what serves our families, and having the courage to change what doesn't.
When parents begin to understand their own reactions while becoming curious about the feelings and needs underneath their child's behavior, something important can shift. Conflict can become an opportunity for connection. Difficult conversations can feel less overwhelming. And home can become a place where both children and parents have room to grow.
You already bring something invaluable to this process: a lifetime of knowing and loving your child. My role is to bring another perspective, professional support, and practical tools so that we can better understand what your child may be communicating—and help you feel more confident and connected as you guide them through it.
Child Parent Relationship Therapy was created by Gary Landreth, the father of Child Centered Play Therapy, to enhance the parent child connection.
Supporting You with Your Kids
Child Parent Relationship Therapy is based on building upon the strengths you already have as a parent and giving you tools to make your parenting even better than it already is.
Professional athletes have coaches. Musicians have teachers. Therapists have supervisors and consultants. Even the most skilled professionals continue learning because growth never stops. Parenting—the most important job many of us will ever have—is no different.
Research consistently shows that when parents learn specific relationship-based skills grounded in attachment science, relational neuroscience, and client-centered therapy, children experience measurable improvements in emotional and behavioral regulation, confidence, resilience, and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Parents often report feeling calmer, more connected, and more confident in responding to difficult moments and stressful occurrences.
Bringing together parents with their children as they learn and integrate specific skills to enhance and improve their parenting, and strengthen the relationship.
You'll learn how to respond in ways that strengthen your relationship and create moments of connection that support healthy brain and body development.
Perhaps the greatest gift of CPRT is that it shifts the question from, "How do I get my child to behave?" to, "How can I strengthen the relationship that naturally supports my child's growth, to become all they are meant to be?" When children feel deeply seen, understood, accepted, and emotionally safe, positive behavior often becomes the result.
You already know your child.
CPRT simply gives you additional tools to deepen that connection, strengthen your confidence, and harness one of the most powerful healing influences in your child's life—you.
The Most Important Gift You Can Give Your Child Costs Nothing
As parents, we often feel pressure to do more—to provide opportunities, teach life lessons, solve problems, and prepare our children for success. But decades of attachment and developmental research suggest that one of the greatest gifts we can offer our children is remarkably simple:
Meet Your CPRT Coach
Hi, I'm Tyra Butler, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I'm passionate about helping parents build stronger, more connected relationships with their children.
For over 16 years, I've had the privilege of walking alongside children, couples, and families as they navigate life's challenges. Throughout my career, one truth has become increasingly clear: the relationship between a parent and child is one of the most powerful influences on a child's emotional health, resilience, and lifelong well-being.
That's why I love Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT).
CPRT equips parents with the same evidence-based relationship skills used in Child-Centered Play Therapy, empowering them to become agents of healing and growth in their own homes. Rather than teaching parents how to "manage" behavior, CPRT helps them better understand their child's inner world, strengthen attachment, and create the emotional safety children need to thrive.
My work is deeply informed by attachment science, relational neuroscience, and Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT). I believe children—and adults—grow best in relationships where they feel genuinely seen, heard, understood, and accepted. As parents learn these skills, they often discover something unexpected: not only does their child's behavior begin to change, but their relationship becomes richer, calmer, and more joyful.
Parents frequently tell me that CPRT transformed the way they understand their child. Power struggles become opportunities for connection. Big emotions become moments of growth. Families begin to enjoy one another again.
My role isn't to tell you how to parent your child. You know your child better than anyone else. My role is to come alongside you, build on the strengths you already possess, and equip you with practical, research-supported tools that help you become even more confident, connected, and intentional as a parent.
It is truly an honor to partner with families as they discover the incredible healing power of relationship. I look forward to helping you strengthen your connection with your child and create a relationship that will continue to flourish for years to come.
Contact me at (949) 292-2923 or tyrabutlermft@gmail.com to inquire about services.