Parenting therapists in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Ellis Nicolson
Registered Psychotherapist, M.Div.; RP; RMFT
Parenting is the hardest job! We can help you respond to your children in a way that invites connection and stability in the home.
20 Years Experience
Maria Christopoulos
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., M.Sc., RP
Parenting comes in many different forms. Families can be made through adoption, blended, legal arrangements or through traditional means. Parenting will often require communication and assertiveness skills. Building these skills can help improve the relationship between family members and decrease tensions.
8 Years Experience
Maria Mukhin
Counsellor/Therapist, MACP (Candidate), Psychtherapist (Qualifying)
SpeciaSpecializing in parenting support, I help you to navigate the challenges of understanding your role as a parent while addressing the emotional needs of your child. Parenting can be difficult, espescially since we often forget our own experiences as children, leading to misunderstandings with our little ones. Together, we will develop strategies to foster better communication, stronger bonds, and a nurturing environment for your child's growth and well-being.
0 Years Experience
Alison Duyck
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Parenting comes with many joys and many sorrows. As you take on the courageous job of slowly letting go of someone you love dearly, I will work with you to gain perspective on your situation, as well as to establish effective strategies in your home.
12 Years Experience
Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health
Psychologist
Our team includes a Registered Psychotherapist and a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist along with several other therapists who are specialized in parenting issues.
21 Years Experience
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
Magdalena Karakehayova
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
I believe that effective parenting can take many forms, however, oftentimes effective parents are able to validate their children’s emotions, have consistent messaging, and model love and kindness for their children. I find that if a child is acting out, it is not necessarily a flaw in the child, but rather a larger familial issue that needs to be discussed in order to figure out the type of support each member needs and how they can effectively communicate this outside of therapy. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to ensure we are a good fit.
5 Years Experience
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
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
Nakasha Ogbonna
Registered Social Worker, RSW
If seeking parenting based support I can help you deepen your connection and improve communication with your child, while further supporting you as a parent in developing confidence in your ability to manage the many stressors of parenting. My approach to parenting support is highly effective in not only modifying unwanted behaviours, but increasing mutual trust, and instilling life long skills that will prove invaluable as your child(ren) develop towards adulthood.
11 Years Experience