Children don’t come with instruction manuals, and while instincts can certainly be helpful, parenting is more than intuition. Despite your best efforts as a parent, sometimes things just don’t work the way you hoped. Perhaps the parenting strategies you once relied on just aren’t doing the trick anymore. Or maybe what worked for one child isn’t the right fit for the other. 

When nothing seems to work, parents can feel stressed, overwhelmed, stuck, and ashamed.

Counselling can help parents in several ways. It can teach you coping skills to keep you grounded and regulated, and evidence-based parenting strategies to communicate more effectively with your child/teenager. Counselling can help you work through anxieties and fears that get in the way of you being the best you can be. And it can also help you to better understand child and teenage development, and how their development impacts their behaviour.

Book a free consultation to see how counselling can strengthen your parenting skills.