“I yell at my kids more often than I want to.”


“My partner and I don’t agree on how to parent.”


“My children are struggling and I have tried everything I know how to.  I need help!”


“My step-children won’t listen to me.”


“We’re divorcing and want help supporting our kids through this process.”

 

Parenting is a rich and rewarding experience but can also be overwhelming, discouraging, frustrating, and create conflict with your partner or ex-partner. 

If you’re struggling with parenting, you aren’t alone!

  • 62% of parents say being  a parent is harder than they expected.

  • 52% of parents say they feel judged by their partner for how they parent.

  • 41% of parents say parenting is tiring and stressful

    -Statistics from Pew Research Center 

Parent counseling can help offer personalized support, education, and parenting tools to help you in your unique parenting situation. It can help you feel less overwhelmed and discouraged by learning tools to help your child. It can clarify expectations, and help you learn conflict management tools. It can also help you understand your children better, learn how to set limits, actively listen to your children, and enjoy parenting!

Counseling can help you determine the parenting style and approach that works best for you and your child.  It can help you sort through parenting differences with your partner. It can help you learn how to help kids deal with their big emotions in ways that don’t overwhelm everyone at home. It can help you transition from one phase of parenting to the next such as toddlers to school age kids, or into teenage parenting. It can also help you deal with parenting kids with mental health issues, special needs, or changing family dynamics such as divorce or separation.

 

Here at Momentum, we have clinicians who are parents, who have additional training in parenting, and who work with parents to help them navigate the challenges parents face. We get it!  Together we can work to overcome:

  • Supporting a child with mental illness

  • Couple conflict around parenting style 

  • Dealing with difficult children

  • Helping kids learn how to handle big emotions

  • Grief and loss with parenting

  • Parenting step-children

  • Navigating divorce as a parent

  • Parenting during a big transition

  • Parenting and chronic health issues

  • And much more!

Please reach out for a free 15-minute consultation with one of our clinicians who specialize in this area.