Decoding Your Child
$247.00
Dr. Ilyssa Bass presents Decoding Your Child, a 6-part parenting course designed to help parents understand the deeper needs behind their child’s behavior. Parenting a sensitive, intense, or complex child can be challenging. Through this course, Dr. Ilyssa Bass explores sensory, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs, offering practical methods to strengthen connection, navigate challenging behavior, and create lasting change.
Dr. Ilyssa Bass: Decoding Your Child
A 6-Part Parenting Course With Dr. Ilyssa Bass
Parenting a sensitive, intense, or complex child can be challenging. You love your child deeply, but understanding what’s behind their behavior isn’t always easy.
Dr. Ilyssa Bass in Decoding Your Child offers a deeper framework for understanding your child’s unique needs, from sensory needs and anxiety to emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development. Learn practical methods to build connection, navigate challenging behavior, and create lasting change
This Course Was Built for Parents Who…
- Feel Lost When Behavior Escalates: You’ve tried every technique in the book, but nothing sticks. You need a deeper framework, not more tips.
- Love Their Child Deeply—but Struggle Daily: The love is enormous. The struggle is real. You want the gap between the two to shrink.
- Suspect Something Deeper Is Going On: Sensory needs, anxiety, neurodivergence, or a different kind of wiring—you want to understand your child’s full picture.
- Are Raising a Sensitive or Intense Child: Big emotions, big reactions, and big needs. You want to meet your child where they are without losing yourself.
- Want to Stop Surviving and Start Connecting: You’re done just getting through the day. You’re ready to actually enjoy your child again.
- Are Ready for Real, Lasting Change: This isn’t a quick fix. It’s a paradigm shift in how you see, understand, and respond to your child.
This series with Dr. Ilyssa Bass includes practical methods and class notes to help you apply what you learn.
Full 6-Session Class Schedule
Session 1: Overview + Complex Body Systems
Choose one behavior you’d love to see change. Learn about the hidden physical roots of behavior, including sensory needs, interoception, allergies, inflammatory issues, sleep, and eating patterns.
Session 2: Emotional Needs & Connection
Explore social skills, anxiety, rejection sensitivity, motivation, and different types of connection. Learn how to enter your child’s emotional world and meet them where they actually are.
Session 3: Cognitive Needs and School Fit
Discover how giftedness, learning differences, and school environment fit can affect your child. Learn how to advocate powerfully for your child in educational settings so they can truly thrive.
Session 4: Spiritual Needs & Real Self-Esteem
Explore true self-esteem, connection to Jewish values and community, mastery, and how to respond to the deep existential questions your child may ask—even when you don’t always have the answers.
Session 5: Pulling It All Together
Focus on implementation and reflection. Use everything you’ve learned to address the specific behavior you targeted in Week 1. Build a sustainable plan for connection and lasting influence.
Session 6: Question and Answer Session
Gain additional insights from the questions and experiences of fellow participants.
Real Outcomes for Real Families
By the end of the 6 sessions, you’ll have practical tools and strategies you can apply to your everyday parenting.
- A Framework for Reading Behavior: Understand what’s driving your child’s meltdowns, shutdowns, or power struggles, and what they may be communicating.
- Confidence in the Hard Moments: Respond with greater clarity, knowing what your child needs and how to support them without losing yourself.
- Fewer Power Struggles: Learn practical tools to de-escalate challenging situations without giving in or shutting down.
- Deeper Connection With Your Child: Better understand your child and strengthen the quality of your relationship.
- Compassion for Yourself: Recognize your greatest strength so you can show up as the parent you want to be.
- A Personalized Action Plan: Leave Session 6 with a tailored roadmap for your child, your family, and the behavior you most want to shift.
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About Dr. Ilyssa Bass
Dr. Ilyssa Bass is a clinical psychologist passionate about helping parents connect with their most difficult children. Through her work, she offers insight, compassion, and support to parents raising complex children, including children with hidden differences who may not respond to traditional parenting approaches.
After training as a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and studying developmental psychology at Stanford University, Dr. Bass believed she was well-prepared for motherhood. But becoming a parent taught her lessons that academia never could.
As the parent of a child with multiple hidden differences, Dr. Bass has firsthand experience navigating the challenges of raising a complex child. Her personal journey has given her a deep understanding of parents who feel that conventional parenting books don’t speak to their family’s unique needs.
Dr. Bass is dedicated to helping parents better understand their children, strengthen the parent-child connection, and approach parenting challenges with greater compassion and confidence.
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You will find a wealth of wisdom, guidance and support in her approachable and compassionate teaching style
-Rebbetzin Dina Schoonmaker, Speaker, Parent Educator, ֲ and Mother of 7
Whenever I have a need for professional advice that requires expertise, erudition and compassion I turn to Dr. Bass.”
-Rebbetzin Tziporah Gottlieb (Heller)
“I’m not overwhelmed anymore. I have a plan.”
– Bracha, Canada, Mother of 5ֲ
