Eileen Paris
Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT
Psychoanalyst, author, and creator of The Parenting Process, helping adults and parents understand the patterns shaping their lives and relationships.
Eileen Paris
Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT
Psychoanalyst, author, and creator of The Parenting Process, helping adults and parents understand the patterns shaping their lives and relationships.
Eileen Paris
Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT
Psychoanalyst, author, and creator of The Parenting Process, helping adults and parents understand the patterns shaping their lives and relationships.
A career spent paying close attention.
The patterns we absorbed as children don't disappear when we grow up. They organize how we react, how we love, how we parent, and how we make sense of ourselves. The work I do, both with adults in the process of psychotherapy and with parents through "The Parenting Process", starts in the same place. We look at where your reactions come from, and that understanding is what makes real change possible.
Eileen brings 55 years of clinical experience to her work with children, families, adults, and parents, alongside teaching, presenting, and writing. She is the author of "I'll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did To Me!": A Guide To Conscious Parenting.
A career spent paying close attention.
The patterns we absorbed as children don't disappear when we grow up. They organize how we react, how we love, how we parent, and how we make sense of ourselves. The work I do, both with adults in the process of psychotherapy and with parents through "The Parenting Process", starts in the same place. We look at where your reactions come from, and that understanding is what makes real change possible.
Eileen brings 55 years of clinical experience to her work with children, families, adults, and parents, alongside teaching, presenting, and writing. She is the author of "I'll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did To Me!": A Guide To Conscious Parenting.
A career spent paying close attention.
The patterns we absorbed as children don't disappear when we grow up. They organize how we react, how we love, how we parent, and how we make sense of ourselves. The work I do, both with adults in the process of psychotherapy and with parents through "The Parenting Process", starts in the same place. We look at where your reactions come from, and that understanding is what makes real change possible.
Eileen brings 55 years of clinical experience to her work with children, families, adults, and parents, alongside teaching, presenting, and writing. She is the author of "I'll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did To Me!": A Guide To Conscious Parenting.
Explore the work
The Parenting Process
A framework for parents and the clinicians who work with them. Built over decades of practice and grounded in attachment, developmental neuroscience, and psychoanalytic insight. For anyone who wants to interrupt inherited patterns instead of passing them on.
Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
Long-term, depth-oriented work for adults navigating relationships, family-of-origin patterns, grief, and the gap between who they are and who they want to be. Individuals and couples, in Aptos or by telehealth across California.
Explore the work
The Parenting Process
A framework for parents and the clinicians who work with them. Built over decades of practice and grounded in attachment, developmental neuroscience, and psychoanalytic insight. For anyone who wants to interrupt inherited patterns instead of passing them on.
Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
Long-term, depth-oriented work for adults navigating relationships, family-of-origin patterns, grief, and the gap between who they are and who they want to be. Individuals and couples, in Aptos or by telehealth across California.
Explore the work
The Parenting Process
A framework for parents and the clinicians who work with them. Built over decades of practice and grounded in attachment, developmental neuroscience, and psychoanalytic insight. For anyone who wants to interrupt inherited patterns instead of passing them on.
Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
Long-term, depth-oriented work for adults navigating relationships, family-of-origin patterns, grief, and the gap between who they are and who they want to be. Individuals and couples, in Aptos or by telehealth across California.
Featured Podcast
Episode description: Zeus is joined by Dr. Eileen Paris. She is a marriage, family, and child counselor who has been working with children and families for over 40 years. She is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and an Infant Mental Health Specialist. She is in private practice. In addition, she has developed a model of parent education, the Parenting Process, and co-authored, “I’ll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did to Me! A Guide to Conscious Parenting”
Join us as we discuss the power in co-parenting, ways we unknowingly pass our traumas onto our children, and how we can set a solid foundation for our family lives at home!
Featured Podcast
Episode description: Zeus is joined by Dr. Eileen Paris. She is a marriage, family, and child counselor who has been working with children and families for over 40 years. She is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and an Infant Mental Health Specialist. She is in private practice. In addition, she has developed a model of parent education, the Parenting Process, and co-authored, “I’ll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did to Me! A Guide to Conscious Parenting”
Join us as we discuss the power in co-parenting, ways we unknowingly pass our traumas onto our children, and how we can set a solid foundation for our family lives at home!
Featured Podcast
Episode description: Zeus is joined by Dr. Eileen Paris. She is a marriage, family, and child counselor who has been working with children and families for over 40 years. She is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and an Infant Mental Health Specialist. She is in private practice. In addition, she has developed a model of parent education, the Parenting Process, and co-authored, “I’ll Never Do To My Kids What My Parents Did to Me! A Guide to Conscious Parenting”
Join us as we discuss the power in co-parenting, ways we unknowingly pass our traumas onto our children, and how we can set a solid foundation for our family lives at home!
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© 2026 Eileen Paris, All rights reserved