Parenting

Here are some of the things that we can work on in parenting counselling:

• Learning how to handle children’s challenging emotions, behaviors, and mental health issues
• Learning how to navigate difficult family dynamics, family of origin issues, and inter-generational trauma issues
• Learning how to connect with and facilitate positive relationships with your kids
• earning how to cope with your own stressors, relationship struggles, and mental health concerns so that you can be the empowered parent you want to be
• earning how to keep yourself calm when your kids are misbehaving and how to help them learn how to regulate their own emotions
• Finding out how to balance all the roles you take on, including parent, spouse, career, housework, self-care, relationships with extended family and friends, etc.
• Healthy boundary-setting with others, including your children
• Navigating social pressures from family, social media, and all other sources of “should/shouldn’t” and “right/wrong” information
• Learning healthy parenting strategies that we didn’t learn in development