family counseling & parenting

Helps to: 

• Identify family patterns that contribute to conflict or mental illness and helps family members break those habits
• Improve communication skills and problem-solving within the family
• Helps the family to understand one's self in relation to the whole family, family patterns, communication styles and relationships. 
• Re-establish or strengthen healthy roles within the family

While parenting is one of the greatest joys in life, it is also one of the most challenging. Parents are responsible for not only meeting their child’s physical and emotional needs, but also teaching them life skills, social skills, and appropriate behaviors. For new parents, overwhelmed parents, or parents with a mental health condition, this can especially difficult.

Possible hardships include: providing consistent care, financial difficulties, feeling rushed most days, lack of sleep,  attending to the demands of an infant or toddler, scheduling and planning children’s days, and maintaining adult relationships. In addition, parenting has certain physical demands that may be mostly performed by the partner primarily responsible for childcare, making them feel overworked. 

Our staff offers specialized modalities for parenting: 

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) 

•  Evidence-based behavior parent training treatment for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders that places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship and changing parent-child interaction patterns. Children and their caregivers are seen together in PCIT. 

Parental Alienation and Reunification Therapy 

•  Designed to repair a parent-child relationship due to parental alienation. The goal of treatment is two-fold: To help the child value and respect the targeted parent, and; To support the child so that he stops emotional caretaking of the alienating parent.

Co-parenting sessions for separated or divorced families

Couples Counseling for Parenting

Play Therapy 

Individual Counseling for Single Parenting

The loss of a child and/or issues with conceiving can be emotionally painful and a strain for the couple or individual. These traumatic experiences can trigger depression, feeling hopeless or defeat, and experience a decrease in self-esteem.  Couples or family therapy can help improve communication and this can help with new decision making that can work with both partners or family. 

1 in 9 mothers have Postpartum Depression. “Postpartum” means the time after childbirth. Most women get the “baby blues,” or feel sad or empty, within a few days of giving birth. For many, these feelings go away in 3-5 days. 

Signs that you may be experiencing postpartum depression include: 

• Feeling sad, hopeless, or empty for longer than 2 weeks
• Feeling unconnected to your baby, as if you are not the baby's mother, or you might not love or care for the baby
• Lack of motivation
• Tearfulness for most of the day
• Negative self-talk such as feelings of worthlessness
• And more.. 

Mothers can also experience anxiety disorders during or after pregnancy. 

The impacts of not seeking treatment can negatively impact the child through childhood. 

We are here to help.