You haven’t given up on your child.
You just need someone in your corner.
Specialized support for parents of adult children battling addiction, mental illness, or a life that hasn't taken shape. From a psychologist who has spent 29 years helping families find their way back to each other. Based in Franklin, TN, licensed across 40 states through PSYPACT. In person and online.
Your adult child is struggling… with addiction, a mental health crisis, or a life that never quite launched. You've searched "how to stop enabling" at 2 a.m. You've replayed old conversations until they stop making sense. You've tried boundaries. Ultimatums. Stepping back. Stepping back in.
People who haven't lived this can't follow you here. And you're tired of pretending you're fine.
You've tried everything.
Nothing has stuck.
"If I help, I might be enabling. If I step back, I might be abandoning them."
There's no clean answer… So you stay stuck. Managing the crisis. Holding the family together. Quietly falling apart.
What you actually want…
"I want to sleep through the night."
"I want to stop carrying decisions that were never mine to make."
"I want a relationship with my child that isn't built on crisis."
"I want my life back."
You've said these things to yourself more times than you can count.
Loving them less isn't the answer…
Knowing where you end and they begin is. That's what lets you breathe.
This is what almost 30 years of practice taught Dr. Cindy Mancini to help you find.
What I offer.
Three parts of the work, built around what parents actually need. Not a one-size-fits-all weekly hour.
Most therapists treat your child... Dr. Cindy treats you.
Here's what makes this different from anything else in this space:
You get your own therapist. Your child gets theirs.
Dr. Cindy works with you. Her colleague works with your adult child, separately, in their own space, with their own confidentiality. Then the two therapists meet, compare notes, and build one strategy for the whole family.
Both sides heard
Both sides represented
One path forward
What working with Dr. Cindy actually looks like
Clarity
You separate your story from your child's. The guilt that was never yours... You finally put down.
Support when it counts
Short, direct coaching when a crisis hits, not just a standing weekly hour after the moment has passed.
Your life, returned
Your sleep. Your marriage. Your sense of who you are outside of this. On your timeline, not theirs.
A path back to each other
When your child is ready, Dr. Cindy helps build the bridge back. Not a lecture, a way back to each other.
She's not working from a textbook.
She's worked with families like yours for nearly three decades.
Almost 30 years. One steady belief.
Dr. Cindy's path to this work started in the Peace Corps, living outside her own culture and becoming fascinated by how differently people carry the same pain.
That curiosity drove her through a doctorate in clinical psychology, two of the country's most respected training programs, and nearly three decades of practice.
She has trained therapists across the country, founded the first team of its kind in Nashville, and is still completing new training today.
She didn't just study this work.
She has spent her entire career deepening it.
What clients say
"I have met many therapists in my life, and Dr. Mancini stands out among all of them. She is a therapist for whom treating others is not only a profession, but a true calling, someone who embodies compassion, attunement, and genuine humanity in every interaction."
"Cindy is more than the best therapist I could ask for myself. She cares about her patients, but REALLY cares. She is direct and honest with boundaries that are so needed. This is the first time in my life I can see things are moving for me."
"Cindy is more than the best therapist I could ask for myself. She cares about her patients, but REALLY cares. She is direct and honest with boundaries that are so needed. This is the first time in my life I can see things are moving for me."
"Such an amazingly sweet person. Helped me with my daughter when no one else would. A truly genuine, caring individual."