Online PCIT in Texas for parents of young strong-willed children.
Julieta Edmond, MA, LPC, and Certified PCIT Therapist, provides Parent-Child Interaction Therapy right in your living room. She conducts live-coached parent training online for families across Texas, in English and Spanish.
You love your child. And sometimes parenting feels so hard.
Clear Lake Psychotherapy offers Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to families with children ages 2 to 7 whose behavior at home has gotten bigger than ordinary discipline can handle. Julieta Edmond, MA, LPC, is a certified PCIT Therapist through PCIT International. She provides sessions in English and Spanish, by video, anywhere in Texas.
PCIT is a short-term, evidence-based treatment. You and your child play together while your therapist watches over video and coaches you through an earbud in real time, in the room where the hard moments happen. PCIT asks for a 12 to 16 week commitment, one session per week.
New PCIT clients are scheduled through Clear Lake Psychotherapy's intake team, which handles insurance verification and matches you into Julieta's calendar.
What is PCIT?
PCIT trains the parent, with the child there, in real time. You get coached while your child is testing you live.
Psychologist Sheila Eyberg designed PCIT to make the parent-child relationship warmer, and make your instructions work. PCIT does both, in that order.
The coaching happens through an earbud or through your phone on speaker. Your child mostly forgets the therapist is there. You hear things like "nice reflection," or "he just handed you the block, describe what he's doing," while you play.
PCIT is designed for parents of children roughly ages 2 to 7 who are dealing with:
What happens in a PCIT session?
Every session follows the same shape, which is part of why it works:
1. Check in
You report how the week went, including a short standardized behavior questionnaire (usually the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory). Your child's score gets tracked week over week, so progress is a number, not a feeling.
2. Observation
Your therapist watches you and your child play and codes what she sees, without coaching yet.
3. Live coaching
This is the core of it. You play with your child and get real-time feedback in your ear.
4. Wrap-up
You set the practice assignment for the week: 5 minutes a day, same time if possible.
Does PCIT work over video?
Research shows PCIT does work over video. A randomized trial published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology compared internet-delivered PCIT to clinic-based PCIT for children with disruptive behavior.
Comer et al. (2017) found that most outcomes were comparable across the two formats, that the rate of excellent response at the end of treatment was significantly higher in the internet-delivered group, and that parents in the internet group reported significantly fewer barriers to treatment.
The practical reason for that result is that PCIT is coaching applied to a live parent-child interaction. In a clinic, that interaction happens in a playroom the child has never been in and with unfamiliar toys. Over video, it happens on your living room floor with the toys your child actually fights you over, and the skills do not have to transfer anywhere afterward. They are already home.
Online PCIT vs. Driving to a Clinic
Online
Online
Clinic-based PCIT
Where the session happens
Your home, with your toys and triggers
A clinic playroom
Skill transfer to home
Immediate; you learned it there
Requires a second step
Travel
None
Round trip weekly
Availability in rural Texas
Statewide
Often the nearest provider is hours away
Coaching method
Earbud or phone speaker
Bug-in-ear from behind a one-way mirror
Siblings and childcare
Manageable at home
Frequently the reason families drop out
Evidence base
Randomized trial support (Comer et al., 2017)
Decades of trials
Online
Where the session happens
Online
Clinic-based PCIT
HIPAA-secure video sessions · Same exceptional care as in-office
Certified. Bilingual.
PCIT is a specific treatment, and who delivers it matters. Here is what parents notice about working with Julieta.
Meet your PCIT therapist, Julieta Edmond
Julieta Edmond, MA, LPC, is a Certified PCIT Therapist through PCIT International and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Sam Houston State University. She provides counseling in both English and Spanish, and works with children, teenagers, families, and couples. She is based in Lufkin and sees clients across Texas by video. PCIT asks parents to be watched while they parent, which is uncomfortable for almost everyone in the first few sessions. That discomfort is expected and it fades.
Julieta Edmond, MA, LPC is a Certified PCIT Therapist through PCIT International and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Sam Houston State University. She provides counseling in both English and Spanish, and works with children, teenagers, families, and couples. She is based in Lufkin and sees clients across Texas by video. PCIT asks parents to be watched while they parent, which is uncomfortable for almost everyone in the first few sessions. That discomfort is expected and it fades.
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Questions about PCIT.
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Sources:
Comer, J. S., Furr, J. M., Miguel, E. M., et al. (2017). Remotely delivering real-time parent training to the home: An initial randomized trial of Internet-delivered parent-child interaction therapy (I-PCIT). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(9), 909-917. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000230.
About PCIT and provider standards. https://www.pcit.org/
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy program profile. https://www.cebc4cw.org/program/parent-child-interaction-therapy/
Last reviewed: Sept. 2026 by Julieta Edmond, MA, LPC, Certified PCIT Therapist
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