Do you struggle in your role as a parent? Do you find it stressful dealing with your children and managing their emotions? Learning parenting skills can be helpful to reduce stress and make your interactions with your children more effectively. Learn to cherish the bond you have with your children. Therapy can help!
Parenting can be both exciting journey and challenging at times, however with the right set of tools and strategies, parents, single parents and parents with kids with higher needs can thrive just fine. Understanding mindful and respectful parenting can go along the way while face difficult moments.
In my approach to parenting support, (I have 3 grown kids) I offer guidance and strategies to navigate the joys and challenges of raising children, fostering positive family dynamics and effective communication. Slowing down and enjoying each moment while developing connection and being able to be present is a powerful skill to learn. We can deal with overwhelm too, it hits the best of us.
I have dedicated my long career to parent education and family therapy. I use an Adlerian approach to help parents understand their child's behaviour better and to gain greater cooperation and harmony in the family. I begin by helping parents understand the goals of their child's behaviour (undue attention-seeking, power, revenge, assumed inadequacy). From there we work on specific effective strategies to become more inclusive and democratic. These approaches are very effective in helping children feel respected, valued and important in the family and will reduce conflict and misbehaviour significantly. I always focus on the tools of encouragement, communication, problem-solving and shared responsibility and will help parents learn how to hold effective family meetings as a way of keeping these goals in sight.
Every family deserves to have harmony and respect. When one person is struggling with some issues, it is possible that the whole family suffers as well. Family therapy helps the family address their underlying emotions, ineffective communication patterns and maladaptive behaviors in order to improve their communication skills and resolve their conflicts.
At Tikvah Family Services, we offer specialized support for parents navigating the complexities of raising children and managing family dynamics. Our parenting counseling is designed to provide guidance and strategies for addressing various challenges, from behavioral issues and discipline to communication and nurturing healthy relationships.
We focus on empowering parents with practical tools and techniques to enhance their parenting skills, strengthen family bonds, and support their children's development. Our approach includes evidence-based methods, including positive reinforcement and effective communication strategies, to help parents create a positive and nurturing environment.
With a compassionate and supportive approach, Tikvah Family Services is dedicated to helping you navigate the joys and challenges of parenting, ensuring that you and your family thrive.
My approach is grounded in authenticity, trust, and often humour. I believe you have the wisdom to navigate life’s challenges and I strive to help empower you to facilitate change in therapy. Each family is difference, and therapy can offer a space to explore your expectations and approaches to parenting. I work with individuals, couples, children and families offering a free consultation to ensure we are a good fit. I carry a systemic lens, exploring the way culture, community and family shape our experiences and aspirations. I am committed to strength-based and anti-oppressive practice in my work. I recognize the importance and responsibility I have as a therapist, to address the systemic inequalities impacting clients in their lives.
Registered Psychotherapist, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
Being a parent can be wonderful and also a real struggle. While some children can be parented with a particular parenting style, their sibling may require something completely different. I can help you create a customized parenting system for your household that takes into account the uniqueness of your family's situation.
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.
Are you feeling stressed? Is a life situation, a partner or work making you feeling anxious or depressed? Have you lost a loved one and hurting? These are common experiences in life. It's tough to go through these experiences however you can learn to be happy again.
5 Years Experience
