Parenting therapists in Danbury, Connecticut CT
Parenting
Kelley Hopkins-Alvarez
Licensed Professional Counselor, Couples & Sex Therapy, Discernment Counselor, Healing Separation, Co-Parenting, Non-Adversarial Divorce Support
When people have kids together, they don't understand as fully as is needed that they will have different parenting styles and these styles will show up in conflicts in how to raise their kids. In our work, we work on using Positive Parenting approaches and each parent knowing their limits when their kids push their buttons.
14 Years Experience
Parenting
Greta Cowles Consulting
Life Coach, LMFT, SEP, PIT, Trauma Stress Studies
Teaching parents how to address various challenges they face with their children, looking at age appropriate behavior, restructuring the inter-relational dynamics in the family to allow for more intimacy and better communication.
11 Years Experience
Parenting
Michelle Peacock
Psychologist, PhD
Parenting is the most rewarding and challenging of roles in life. Parenting skills including how to help your children understand and regulate their emotions, teach clear expectations, and understand behavioral interventions is important to making a harmonious family life and be a successful parent.
19 Years Experience
Parenting
Susan Lobosco Benner
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
While I don't work with younger children, I delight in working with parents to identify challenges and patterns which may be contributing to a difficult dynamic at home. My approach is rooted in attachment and is reflective of a positive parenting perspective.
30 Years Experience
Parenting
Strides in Psychotherapy
Psychologist, PSY.D.
here are many different ways to be an effective and nurturing parent. People’s parenting styles may vary based on culture, race, religion, socioeconomic status, geographic location as well as due to both the parents’ and the children’s personalities. Some people tend to be more authoritarian, setting rules and expecting them to be followed because you are the parent. Other parents are more permissive, wanting their children to have their needs met and to feel heard and understood. Still others try to find some middle ground. They may switch positions depending on the specifics of the situation or they may negotiate a compromise. Sometimes one parenting style works really effectively with one child but not at all with another. Other times, a way of handling a situation may work fine for your child at one age but not at all once they get a bit older, so a shift in approach is needed. We all tend to use our own upbringing as a model for how we parent, or in some cases, for what we most want to avoid in raising our children. Often, this strategy works fine. When it does not, therapy can be a useful tool in offering you alternative strategies and techniques that might help.
23 Years Experience