Parenting therapists in Kensington-Chinatown, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Parenting
Honest Love: Fertility & Couples Counselling Services
Registered Social Worker, RSW
I work with couples who are experiencing challenges in their parenting styles and want to come to mutual understanding as parents.
9 Years Experience
Parenting
Marlene Taube-Schiff
Psychologist, PhD, C. Psych., R.Psych.
Our couples and family therapist explores a range of issues that impacts relationships, including life transitions, loss of connection, conflict, betrayal, domestic violence, trauma, and grief. Her approaches include Emotional Focused Therapy, Gottman Method, Cognitive-Behavioural, Psychodynamic and Narrative. Her work involves parent coaching and family therapy for families affected by a loved one’s mental health and/or addictions issues. Call us today to book a free consultation!
18 Years Experience
Parenting
Theresa Gregory, Lightbridge Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Masters in the Arts
As a parent of three, I can relate to very challenging parenting issues. It is never easy, and can be extremely painful when we see our children go through difficulties in their lives. I can help to process your emotions, to provide clarity, and to guide you to a more peaceful parenting experience.
4 Years Experience
Parenting
Kaleidoscope Counselling Collective
Registered Social Worker, RSW
Our clinicians believe that the best work can be done by supporting parents. When we can learn to regulate our own emotions, heal our own wounds, manage conflict in our relationships, and learn to understand the needs and messages underneath our children's behaviour, we can help create the change we hope to see in our household.
Our therapists know that parenting isn't easy, and have a deep compassion for this role. We can create a space for your process the difficulties of parenting, as well as help you find ways to intervene and cope better.
If you want support now, book a consult or session today! www.kaleidoscopecounsellingco.com
14 Years Experience
Parenting
North Star Therapy-- Cleo Haber
Registered Social Worker, BSW, MSW, RSW
Relationships with family members can be particularly complex. With family, we often fall into old roles that may no longer serve us. You may be grieving the loss of a relationship you wished you had with a family member, or struggling with conflict and hurt feelings that keep getting re-triggered in each encounter. You may be facing challenges with parenting or trying to figure out the best ways to support your children. Relationship counselling can help you sort through the complexities of family dynamics, understand old roles and how you get pulled into them while working towards setting healthy boundaries in order to create more harmonious family dynamics.
23 Years Experience
Parenting
Ojasvi Bhardwaj
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Qualifying)
Navigating the complexities of parent-child relationships and the dynamics of being parents or siblings can be challenging, especially during transitions or conflicts. I specialize in online dyadic family therapy work, where I work with parents, parent-child pairs, or sibling dyads to enhance understanding, communication, and harmony within your family unit. Let's embark on a journey to build stronger connections and create a nurturing environment together. Reach out for a free consultation, and let's take the first step towards a happier, more harmonious family life.
2 Years Experience
Parenting
Shanna Budzinsky
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Parenting is one of the most challenging roles we can undertake because each child has unique needs and there can be a lot of conflicting and confusing information out there. It can feel difficult to know what is right for your family, especially if challenges arise. Therapy for parenting can provide a supportive space to be able to work through difficult situations and explore approaches that work best for your family. When working with parents, we work together as a team because parents are the expert when it comes to their children. Book a free consultation to explore if we are a good fit.
12 Years Experience
Parenting
Sarah Glinski
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Qualifying)
Raising a child may be one of the most rewarding experiences one can have but it is also one of the most challenging and confusing. It is normal for parents to disagree (with their children and their co-parent), to feel overwhelmed, to feel shame or regret, to have anxiety or to just be at a loss. Seeking professional counselling to help you through parenting challenges can alleviate stress, bring clarity to the “big picture”, and secure you with the tools to communicate more effectively, build respectful, healthy family dynamics, and understand your children better. I provide free consultation phone calls to determine whether I am the right fit to help you through these challenges.
2 Years Experience
Parenting
Laura Farberman
Registered Social Worker, RSW, MSW
Parenting Support is support where and when you need it. Change with our children begins with us as parents. A big part of parenting is tolerating and sitting with a child when they are having big, overwhelming feelings. If you didn't get this when you were young, a big part of Re-parenting yourself is tolerating and staying with yourself while you are having big, overwhelming feelings. Support is based on positive, respectful, compassionate, gentle and connection based parenting techniques that are effective and meaningful. It begins with building a relationship to get to know your families history, strengths, and challenges to bring about change through empowerment and self awareness. Practical, attainable strategies will start to be discussed from your first session.
14 Years Experience
Parenting
Dr. Kim Edwards
Psychologist, C.Psych.
It takes a Village to Raise a Child: Parent Coaching at MindFit
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any.” That’s what makes it so difficult.” – Ewan McGregor
From emotion regulation challenges to ADHD to social media use, there are no shortage of parenting challenges. MindFit Parent Coaching aims to help make your job a little easier.
Workouts (sessions) are designed to improve children’s emotional, cognitive, behavioural and health-related outcomes by fostering parenting skills and improving the quality of parent-child relationships.
Techniques:
Collaborative Problem Solving
• Developed by Dr. Ross Greene at Harvard Medical School, CPS is an extremely effective technique for helping youth learn lagging skills in the areas of flexibility, frustration tolerance, and adaptability.
• CPS is based on the premise that children do well if they can (not if they want to) and your explanation of why a child is behaving poorly guides the intervention. More specifically, CPS sees challenging behaviours as resulting from skill deficits and not motivation deficits.
• Consequently, the goal is to help parents learn to solve common problems/challenges (e.g., screen time, homework, routine difficulties) with their youth collaboratively and proactive, while teaching youth new skills along the way.
Emotion Coaching/Emotion-Focused Parenting
• Parents and caregivers learn to recognize and attend to their and their child’s emotions and use emotions as moments for teaching. Parents are also taught to listen with empathy, validate their child’s feelings, and meet their child’s needs (e.g., offering a hug if a child is sad).. When a child calms down, parents learn to help their child label their feelings with words and then discuss practical coping strategies to deal with triggers and improve self-regulation skills
Positive Parenting Interventions/Strength-Based Parenting
• Strength-based parenting helps parents to acknowledge and encourage a child’s unique abilities, talents, and skills (i.e., strengths).
• Practical advice and interventions (e.g., ways to identify parent strengths and children’s strengths, how to have conversations for connection) is provided to help set children up for success, maximize potential, and nurture and foster children’s talents and strengths.
At MindFit, we only provide programs and workouts that are backed by science and based on real data. You can expect to work with skilled clinicians who aim to create a safe, non-judgemental, de-stigmatizing, compassionate and welcoming environment. Sessions are aimed to at being short term and time limited, handouts and resources are provided to help you implement your new toolbox of strategies and skills, and questionnaires/check-ins are used to measure/track change.
9 Years Experience