Navigating relationships with adult children can be both deeply rewarding and profoundly challenging. As children move into adulthood, the parental role inevitably shifts—requiring new boundaries, communication strategies, and ways of offering support without overstepping. Parents often face complex emotional terrain, including grief over changing closeness, guilt about past choices, frustration with differing values, and uncertainty about when to step in or let go. This webinar offers a mindfulness-based, trauma-informed framework for understanding and navigating the evolving parent–adult child relationship. Through the integration of developmental theory, intergenerational family patterns, attachment science, and nervous system regulation, participants will gain practical tools for fostering connection while honoring individuation. The webinar will address challenges such as estrangement, conflict, over-functioning, financial dependence, and navigating neurodiversity in adult children. Participants will leave with strategies to help those in these relationships and dealing with this painful struggle, approaching them with greater clarity, compassion, and flexibility, and applying concrete clinical tools to support clients through this stage of family life.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe developmental and relational themes that arise in the parent-adult child dynamic.
• Explain how mindfulness and nervous system regulation practices can support boundary setting and grief
  processing.
• Apply attachment-based and trauma-informed strategies to promote connection and individuation.
• Integrate at least three clinical tools to assist clients navigating estrangement, conflict, or emotional cutoff with
  adult children.