Marriage can be incredibly challenging, especially when every day feels like an uphill battle. If busy schedules or urgent needs are keeping you from weekly couples counseling, Wilson Counseling in Houston offers a solution. Our Couples Intensives are longer sessions that provide focused, powerful support to help you repair and strengthen your relationship without the long timeline of traditional therapy. When you need help now, Wilson Counseling is here for you. Call today to start feeling closer to your partner at 713-565-0922.
Struggling to help your adult child become independent? “Failure to launch” affects more than just young adults—it can persist into midlife, leaving parents torn between support and enabling. Our Houston therapists can help families understand the root causes of this challenge and offer practical strategies to encourage growth, responsibility, and long-term success. Call 713-565-0922 today to schedule.
Parenting Adult Children: Why Boundaries Still Matter
When your kids become adults, it’s easy to think your job as a parent is done—but that’s rarely the case. Whether they’re living at home or navigating life on their own, adult children often still need emotional support, structure, and even guidance during life’s ups and downs. At Wilson Counseling in Houston, we understand how challenging it can be to shift from hands-on parenting to setting respectful, healthy boundaries with grown children. If you’re unsure how to balance love and limits, this guide will help you redefine your role while maintaining a strong, respectful connection.
Should You Financially Support Your Adult Children?
Deciding whether to support your adult children financially is a deeply personal and often emotional choice. At Wilson Counseling in Texas, we help parents navigate the fine line between offering support and encouraging independence—without compromising their own financial or emotional well-being. Call 713-565-0922 to get parent coaching today.
Parenting doesn’t stop when your children become adults; the challenges just change. As you navigate the complexities of adult-child relationships, managing difficult dynamics requires patience and strong boundaries. In this post, we’ll explore how to address these challenges effectively while maintaining your well-being. If you need help with parenting adult children, our Houston therapists can help guide you. Call 713-565-0922.
You can never really be ready for the harrowing journey that is parenting. It can be wonderful--magical, even--when things are smooth, and your kids are happy. Sometimes, however, it can seem like a total failure, where you feel clueless and ill-suited to parenthood. And, because the stakes are so high, it’s painful to feel like a failure at one of the most important things you will ever do.
Compromise
Communicate as a team
Communicate directly with your ex
Don’t talk badly about your ex
Don’t ignore special days like birthdays
Do not involve kids in adult decision
Pick your battles
Be flexible with your schedule
Don’t expect your ex to handle things the way you do
Share information, updates, photos, and accolades with your ex
Enjoy your time off
Have a support network
As the parent who never has the color coded schedule, doesn't have a Pintrest board for what to do with my kids on rainy days, and is not the first one to sign up for that school field trip to the Renaissance Festival, I appreciated this Huffington Post article entitled, "Parents, It's Ok If You're Barely Getting By Right Now.
I had a parent call me monthly about her student.She would call anytime he was close to failing and would ask how can we prevent him from failing. She also told me that she emails his teacher almost weekly, and couldn’t understand why she hadn’t heard anything back. I listened empathetically to her talk then asked, "What is the harm in failing?"
I get a lot of questions about parenting. One of the categories of questions I get is about how to help kids become healthy eaters and avoid disordered eating and poor body image. One of my most read blog posts is entitled "How to Not Screw Up Your Kid's Body Image." I also have another more recent post entitled "Children and Eating - Developing Non-Disordered Eating Habits" and one entitled "How to Not Screw Up Your Kid's Body Image - Developing Healthy Eating Habits in Children."
As an eating disorder therapist, I get a lot of questions from parents about how to feed children and how to prevent eating disorders. A great resource for answering some of these questions is the Ellyn Satyr Institute. Ellyn Satyr is a Dietitian and Family Therapist and is recognized as a leading expert when it comes to issues related to eating and food.
