Course Objective:
- Develop tools and strategies to help couples transition to parenthood
- Increase knowledge and awareness about how intersecting marginalized identities may impact couples transition to parenthood
- Strengthen skills for working with complex and nuanced couples
Course Curriculum
Dr. Aleja Parsons
Dr. Parsons specializes in getting couples “unstuck” from long standing destructive patterns. She works with couples to help clarify the cycles keeping them trapped and provides tools for them to join together against the issues tearing them apart. Dr. Parsons has extensive training in working with people of color and uses a multicultural framework to help couples figure out how race and the other parts of their identities, affect their relationship. Dr. Parsons’ work helps couples rediscover the love and compassion that brought them together and teaches them effective strategies to maintain a healthy and lasting relationship. Dr. Parsons earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Denver. After graduating, she pioneered programs of research as faculty at NYU and now works directly with couples as a clinician in her practice, Relationship Health Psychological Services PLLC.