When parents strive to raise emotionally aware, communicative children, the outcome often looks ideal from the outside: kids who are loved, supported and encouraged.

But according to a graduate student studying clinical mental health counseling, even children from these "conscious" families are showing up in therapy with struggles their parents never anticipated.

In her reel on Instagram , Jaclyn Williams (@breakingcycles.co) revealed what breaks her heart about kids from "emotionally healthy families" who end up in her therapy office.

When Good Intentions Go Too Far

Williams explained that more and more children from emotionally attentive households are struggling with anxiety over making decisions, guilt about negative emotions, people-pleasing tendencies, difficulty handling dis

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