The parent is the intervention.
Dr. Jill Thurber brings 25 years of clinical experience to stages, schools, hospitals, and organizations, teaching parents that understanding the unique qualities of themselves and their child will fundamentally improve their parenting.
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The Missing Piece in Modern Parenting
The parents in your audience have already tried everything. They’ve tried time-outs, counting to three, warning after warning, over-talking every situation, and every recommendation their own parents handed down. Nothing has worked. They worry they’re messing up their kids, and they fear their children will resent them when they’re grown.
In this talk, Dr. Jill offers a different starting point.
Your child’s behavior might have a different meaning than you think it does. The tantrum that looks like manipulation is often exhaustion, hunger, or anxiety about change. And the advice parents hear most today, gets a respectful challenge: children feel more secure when a parent can hold a boundary with a swift, firm no. Kids who act out are often searching for where the boundary is.
Audiences follow the story of one family’s transformation, from a living room full of thrown toys to a mother finally grieving the child she imagined so she could love the child she has.
Your audience walks away with
- A new way to interpret your child’s most frustrating behaviors, and what a tantrum might really be telling you
- The confidence to hold a firm, loving no, and the reason it makes your child feel more secure
- An understanding of why the same child can push one parent’s buttons and never the other’s
- One practice to start that same night
- Permission to stop following advice that was never built for your child
Formats
The 60-minute keynote
Dr. Jill’s signature talk, followed by a live Q&A where parents can bring their real situations.
The half-day workshop
The talk plus guided breakout groups, where parents work through Dr. Jill’s own tools, including The Parenting Blueprint and The Parent/Child Temperamental Match questionnaire, and leave with a plan specific to their family.
About Dr. Jill
Dr. Jill Thurber is a board-certified child and adolescent psychologist who has been in private practice for over 25 years. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, completed her residency in pediatric psychology at USC’s Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and went on to complete one of only two APA-accredited child and adolescent fellowships in the United States at Tripler Army Medical Center. Today she runs a thriving private practice in San Antonio, Texas, where she specializes in neurodiversity, anxiety, depression, and teen mental health.
Her approach, The Integrated Parent, blends developmental psychology, attachment, neuroscience, and self-awareness into one coherent philosophy: the parent is the intervention. Her book of the same name is coming soon.
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