The Parenting Wheel & Group Parent Empowering Protocol (GPEP)

Parenting can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly challenging. If your child has experienced difficult life events, or you find that your own past shows up in the way you parent, you're not alone.

The Parenting Wheel and Group Parent Empowering Protocol (GPEP), developed by Ana Gómez, MC, LPC, are group programs that help parents better understand their child's emotions, behaviors, and needs while strengthening their own confidence, calm, and connection.

These groups go beyond managing behavior. You'll learn what's happening beneath your child's reactions, how the nervous system influences both children and adults, and practical ways to respond with connection instead of reactivity.

Together, we'll explore topics like:

• Understanding the meaning behind your child's behavior

• Building emotional safety and trust

• Strengthening connection through co-regulation

• Managing parenting stress with greater confidence

• Responding calmly during challenging moments

• Breaking unhealthy family patterns and creating new ones

• Raising resilient, emotionally secure children

These groups aren't about becoming a perfect parent. They're about helping you feel more confident, supported, and connected so you can create the kind of relationship you want with your child.

When parents feel calmer, more confident, and emotionally connected, children often feel safer, more understood, and better able to thrive. Healing begins with the relationship, and even small changes can make a lasting difference for the whole family.

ASSYST is a gentle, trauma-informed approach designed to help reduce emotional distress connected to overwhelming or stressful experiences. It can be helpful following recent traumatic events, critical incidents, accidents, medical experiences, natural disasters, school or workplace stress, grief, or other emotionally intense situations.

This approach is beneficial for children, teens, and adults who may be experiencing anxiety, emotional overwhelm, distressing memories, difficulty calming the nervous system, or feeling “stuck” after a difficult experience. ASSYST supports emotional stabilization, grounding, and resilience while helping individuals feel safer, calmer, and more regulated in daily life.

When stress feels constant or overwhelming, it can begin to affect emotions, relationships, focus, sleep, and overall well-being. EMDR-IGTP-OTS is a supportive group approach designed to help individuals process ongoing stress and difficult experiences while building emotional balance and resilience.

This approach may be helpful for children, teens, and adults experiencing anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, chronic stress, grief, trauma, caregiving stress, school or workplace pressures, or the impact of ongoing difficult life situations. It can also support those who feel “stuck,” emotionally exhausted, constantly on edge, or disconnected after prolonged stress or trauma exposure.

Through a structured and trauma-informed group process, EMDR-IGTP-OTS helps calm the nervous system, reduce emotional distress, strengthen coping skills, and create a greater sense of safety, stability, and connection.

GTEP is a structured, trauma-informed approach designed to help individuals process distress related to traumatic or overwhelming experiences in a supportive group setting. It can be helpful for recent or past experiences that continue to cause emotional distress, including accidents, loss, community trauma, medical events, school or workplace stress, violence, disasters, or other difficult life experiences.

GTEP may benefit children, teens, and adults who are experiencing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, emotional overwhelm, heightened stress responses, difficulty coping, or ongoing distress connected to past events. This approach supports emotional regulation, nervous system stabilization, resilience, and healing while allowing individuals to process experiences safely within a guided therapeutic environment.

C-GTEP is a child-focused, trauma-informed group approach designed to help children and adolescents process distressing or overwhelming experiences in a safe and supportive environment. It may be helpful for children impacted by grief, family changes, school stress, bullying, medical experiences, accidents, community trauma, natural disasters, or other difficult life events.

C-GTEP supports children and teens who may be experiencing anxiety, emotional dysregulation, behavioral changes, fears, withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, or distress connected to past experiences. Through developmentally appropriate activities and structured support, this approach helps promote emotional stabilization, resilience, coping skills, and a greater sense of safety and connection.

G-PEP is a trauma-informed group approach designed to support individuals experiencing ongoing stress, chronic adversity, or repeated exposure to overwhelming situations. It can be especially helpful for those navigating long-term stress related to caregiving, high-stress work environments, medical challenges, community violence, family conflict, or ongoing trauma exposure.

This approach may benefit children, teens, and adults who experience anxiety, emotional exhaustion, hypervigilance, overwhelm, burnout, or difficulty feeling regulated and safe. G-PEP focuses on strengthening emotional regulation, reducing distress, building resilience, and supporting nervous system stabilization in a supportive group setting.

Group Brainspotting is a focused, brain-body therapeutic approach that helps individuals process emotional stress, trauma, and overwhelming experiences in a supportive group environment. Using mindfulness, focused attention, and attunement, this approach helps access and release emotional and physical stress that may feel “stuck” in the nervous system.

Group Brainspotting may be helpful for children, teens, and adults experiencing anxiety, trauma, performance stress, grief, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, or difficulty managing intense emotions. This approach supports deeper emotional processing, increased self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and healing in a safe and guided therapeutic space.

Group Yoga offers a supportive and calming space for children, teens, and adults to reconnect with both mind and body through movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and relaxation practices. These groups are designed to support emotional wellness, stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being in a gentle and accessible way.

Group Yoga may be helpful for individuals experiencing anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, burnout, difficulty relaxing, sleep challenges, trauma-related stress, or feeling disconnected from themselves or others. Sessions focus on building body awareness, grounding, coping skills, flexibility, and emotional balance while encouraging a greater sense of calm, confidence, and connection in everyday life.