Parent Counseling for Parents, Co-Parents and Step Parents

Parents Lead the Way

At Crossroads Family Counseling Center, our motto is “Strong Families. Strong Kids”. Strong families start with strong parents. And one of the best ways you can be strong is to admit to yourself when you could use some help. Parent counseling can provide that help.

The tools you hone in parent counseling — tools that help improve your interactions and show your love — will extend to your partner and to your kids.

Parent counseling can be a part of a comprehensive approach to family therapy that Crossroads Family Counseling Center offers to support you and your family.

Parents Are The Most Important People in a Child’s Life

We all know this to be true, but few, if any, of us get any training to become a parent. Parent counseling is one of the only ways we gain and learn new skills.

Parent counseling focuses on your most important job in an objective, non-judgmental way. We support you in bringing the best parenting strategies to meet the unique needs and strengths of your child.

“Parent coaching,” parent counseling or parenting therapy — regardless of how you refer to it— is about helping you to do the best job as a parent to support your child’s development and demonstrate your love.

When Tough Moments Become the Norm

Parenting can feel exhausting when we are dealing with persistent challenges. Anxiety, changing family dynamics, challenges at school and a myriad of other issues can be at the root of behavioral issues that present significant stress for parents. Parent counseling can help you identify the root causes of your child’s behavior and help to create strategies to manage them effectively.

Sometimes, parents need extra support for a specific stressor impacting the whole family. Parent counseling can support you with tools for managing challenging situations with care and help you to improve your own reactions to situations that you can’t control.

Parent Coaching: Strategies to Help You

Crossroads Family Counseling Center Therapy Room

Our parent coaching approaches help you build joyful, connecting moments with your child and decrease negative or frustrating patterns and interactions between you and your child.

Sometimes, having an objective outsider who is familiar with the common challenges of parenting can help you see things in new ways. Our trained therapists can act in a parent coaching manner to help you focus on what matters most in certain situations and improve the outcomes of your interactions with your child.

Special parental challenges sometimes create a unique dynamic that can benefit from parent counseling, such as:

School related issues
Bullying situations
Sibling rivalries and blended families
Unique challenges of single parenting
Navigating co-parenting
Supporting a child or adolescent with issues related to gender or sexuality identification
Recovering from trauma
Coping with illness and a disability in the family

Parent coaching recognizes the important role you play in your child’s life and supports you with tools to help you be the parent you need to be for your child.

If you are seeking parent coaching or parent counseling to support your child and family, reach out to us. We also offer individual services such as play therapy, individual adolescent therapy, adult therapy and psychiatric services. Taking the first step is always the hardest. Contact us today.

A Little Bit about Getting Started

Just as trying something new involves taking a risk, so does beginning counseling for families. We recognize that parent coaching can be a scary proposition for some, and we will do whatever we can to help reduce anxiety.

Our family therapist approaches are tailored to your individual family’s strengths and challenges. We will work with you to devise a family counseling plan to support your unique situation.

Counseling for families involves our family therapists working as a team with you to identify and utilize the strengths of the family to help address barriers to communication and assist with building healthier relationships.

If you or your family need help, visit our contact page to get in touch. We can help support your family to get the help you need.

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