Online Parenting therapists in Lexington, Kentucky KY
We are proud to feature top rated online Parenting therapists in Lexington. We encourage you to review each profile to find your best match.
Dr. Mike Lee
Psychologist
I help parents—whether on their own or with a partner—meet the challenges of parenting with steadiness and clarity. The work is depth-informed and collaborative: we make sense of what is happening at and beneath the surface—stress, uncertainty, and competing values—and turn that understanding into workable steps for communication, boundaries, and repair. The aim is durable change—less reactivity and second-guessing, more alignment, warmth, and confidence in how you respond to your children and, when pertinent, to one another.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Lyndsay Elliott
Psychologist, PsyD.
Parenting is one of the most rewarding and most challenging roles an adult can take on — and yet it is one of the areas where people are least likely to ask for help. As a licensed clinical psychologist with 20+ years of experience, I work with parents navigating parenting stress, child behavioral challenges, co-parenting conflict, blended family dynamics, parenting after divorce, and the emotional weight of raising children through difficult seasons. Using cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic insight, and solution-focused intervention, I help parents develop practical tools, healthier communication patterns, and greater confidence in their role. Telehealth parenting therapy available across 40+ states.
21 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
South Psychology
Psychologist, PhD
Are you navigating the complexities of parenting? Seeking support to enhance your parent-child relationship? Look no further! At South Psychology, we specialize in providing compassionate and effective mental health therapy and assessment services for parents and families.
Our Services:
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): PCIT is a short-term program that works with both the child and caregiver together. Through active skills training and supportive coaching, caregivers learn specialized techniques to support children experiencing behavioral and emotional difficulties. Strengthen your bond with your child while improving overall behavior and reducing parenting stress.
Parent Management Training: Our expert therapists offer evidence-based strategies to enhance your parenting skills. Learn effective communication, behavior management, and stress reduction techniques to create a harmonious family environment.
Assessment Services: We provide comprehensive assessments to understand your child’s emotional and behavioral needs. Our assessments guide personalized treatment plans for optimal growth and well-being.
Why Choose South Psychology?
Experienced Clinicians: Our team includes skilled psychologists and therapists with over a decade of experience serving adolescents, young adults, adults, couples, and geriatric populations.
Holistic Approach: We utilize individual therapy, parent-child interaction, couples therapy, group therapy, and more. Our focus extends beyond symptoms to address underlying issues and promote lasting change.
Safe and Supportive Environment: South Psychology offers a welcoming space where you can explore challenges, gain insights, and build resilience.
8 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Amy Hecht
Psychologist, PhD
I work with parents at all stages, from early childhood through adolescence, helping them navigate the often complex and evolving challenges of raising children. Parenting can be deeply meaningful, but also demanding, and many parents find themselves feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or stretched in ways they didn’t anticipate.
My approach focuses on helping parents better understand their child’s emotional and developmental needs, while also making space for their own experience. I work collaboratively to strengthen connection, improve communication, and address patterns that may be contributing to conflict or stress within the family.
I also bring particular sensitivity to parenting within adoptive, donor-conceived, and other non-traditional families, where additional layers of identity, communication, and connection may emerge over time.
Above all, I aim to support parents in feeling more confident, grounded, and effective—so they can show up for their children with both clarity and compassion.
26 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Jeannine Pablo
Psychologist, LP, LCMHC, MLADC
Raising children in a fast-paced world presents complex behavioral, emotional, and systemic challenges. Utilizing evidence-based behavioral strategies and positive parenting frameworks, I help parents navigate developmental milestones, ADHD management, and emotional dysregulation in children. Our clinical work focuses on shifting from reactive to intentional parenting, establishing healthy boundaries, reducing household conflict, and building cohesive, supportive home environments.
23 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
MentalWellness Therapy LLC
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Parenting can feel overwhelming, especially when your child’s needs trigger your own stress or past experiences. We help you understand your child’s behavior through a nervous system and attachment lens, while also equipping you with tools to respond with confidence, consistency, and connection.
2 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Kristen W. Green
Psychologist, PhD, ABPP
I often incorporate parenting work into the work I do with my child and adolescent clients. I am also able to work with parents in developing and honing healthy parenting skills for their children.
21 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Vanessa Vitiello
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
I support parents in adjusting to the emotional and mental demands of raising children, with a focus on reducing overwhelm and building confidence. Our work often includes managing expectations, strengthening coping skills, and finding a more sustainable rhythm.
11 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
Alan Brandis, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
Gifted kids have special needs. Here are some of the things that Talented and Gifted children have told us they need help with. They need to:
“...get my teachers to listen to me about being bored.”
“...not get so stressed out about every thing.”
“...find out how to get out of doing busy-work.”
“...know what to do when I get teased for being smart.”
“...convince my mom that I don’t always have to get A+ .”
“...know how to get out of work I miss because of T & G class.”
“...deal with frustration when I already know the subject.”
“...know what to tell my parents when I bomb a test.”
“...know how to get along better with kids who aren’t T & G.”
“...quit acting dumb to get other kids to like me.”
“...not feel embarrassed when kids say, ‘What’s Target Class?’”
“...know how to get along like a regular person.”
“...know what to say when I make a mistake.”
36 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Megie Shean
Psychologist, PsyD
Transitioning to parenting can be challenging, and each stage of it can be new and cause or heighten distress. I can support you in this.
7 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
Erica Hart
Psychologist, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Becoming a parent often opens up feelings about our own parents. We often are trying to "do better" for our kids, but this can have its challenges. I support clients who are trying to understand their parental roles, heal from historic family wounds, and find balance and self-compassion in their lives.
17 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Debra Zand
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Parenting therapy helps parents identify, address, and manage their own past or present experiences that may be affecting the way they relate to their child. In some cases, parenting therapy may also help parents better communicate between each other to maintain a cohesive and structured parenting approach. Parenting therapy provides a judgement-free zone for parents to discuss tough moments in parenting and learn how to better manage these tough moments moving forward. Overall, parenting therapy aims to provide parents with the necessary knowledge, tools, guidance, and support to take care of themselves and their children in the most ideal way possible.
26 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Andrew D. Sapp
Psychologist, PhD
I'm not only a parent of three teenagers, I've also dedicated the bulk of my career to helping parents and their pre-teens and teens. I started a residential treatment center for adolescents as well as a therapeutic boarding school, was a psychologist for an outdoor adventure therapy program, was a therapist at an inner city group home for teenage boys, and the lead therapist on the adolescent wing of a locked psychiatric hospital and a group life coordinator at a juvenile corrections facility. Parenting is challenging and none of us are perfect. Great job seeking guidance and taking action to become the best parent you can be.
20 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
Dr. C. Shawn Oak, Oak & Associates, LLC
Marriage and Family Therapist, PHD, MSSW, LMFT (KY/IN) LSCW (IN), ACS, CLC, CMC
“Nurturing Parenting,” an effective tool for parenting children of all ages. Caregivers are taught the following: stress management, ages and stages of child development, brain development, understanding feelings, building self-worth, praise and encouragement, and communicating with respect.
19 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
NewBirth Counseling & Wellness Group LLC
Professional Christian Counselor, Certified Christian Counselor, Certified Life Coach & Consultant with a PhD in Psychology
Are you challenged with parenting a child or just need someone to talk with. We offer great assistance in tools in parenting. Call our practice for more information.
23 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Steven A. Lazarus, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), (MA), Licensed Psychologist in CO, PSYPACT Mobility #19275
I have provided therapy for children and teenagers my entire career. I am providing parents with online support to help you be the best parents you can be and find direction to support your child or teen. Online therapy is easy and convenient for parents.
32 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Kate E. Stephenson
Life Coach, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Holistic Life, Career & Executive
The pressure to be the perfect parent and professional is immense and intense. Our culture covets the perfect life and cultivates a narrative that you can have it all if you just try hard enough. In my most professional capacity, I call NONSENSE on that (insert more forceful word if you'd like). Holistic Life Coaching can be a powerful experience in which we examine, explore, and elevate your own definition of successful parenting, empowering your parental presence according to YOUR values, character, and strengths. I am NOT offering therapy—I leave the work of diagnosis and treatment of medical issues to medical professionals. However, coaching can absolutely complement and supplement any therapy work you are doing; our work together will be therapeutic without being therapy. I offer tools that can increase ease, support the maintenance of positive healthy boundaries, increase satisfaction in your life, improve communication and connection with your children, and so much more. Let's talk about what being a parent means to you.
7 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
Dr. Elizabeth Coldren
Psychologist, PSYD, PSYPACT
I work with parents who feel stretched thin by what parenting is asking of them. This may be because your child is neurodivergent, has medical needs, has been through a frightening or overwhelming experience, or because this stage of parenting is simply more intense than you expected. Parents I see often describe feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or on edge much of the time; not knowing how to respond to big emotions, shutdown, or challenging behaviors; worrying about a child’s ADHD, learning needs, or mental health; grieving that family life looks different from what they imagined; feeling tension with a partner or co‑parent about parenting styles, division of labor, or how to support a child; and feeling lonely or unseen in their role, even when they are doing everything they can and know to do.
I work with parents individually, and with couples who want support around how parenting is affecting their relationship. In our work together, there is room for the full range of your experience: love, worry, anger, guilt, and everything in between. We look for ways of relating to your child, and to each other, that feel more grounded, sustainable, and aligned with what matters most to you. I also work with parents who are navigating parenting while healing from their own past experiences, including trauma, complicated family histories, or critical inner voices.
26 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Dr. Tracy Mallett
Psychologist, Psy.D., L.M.F.T., Licensed Psychologist
Parenting is both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging. Even the most loving parents can feel overwhelmed, unsure, or discouraged when their child’s needs or behaviors seem difficult to manage. I specialize in helping parents understand the “why” behind their child’s emotions and behaviors, develop effective communication and discipline strategies, and restore a sense of confidence and calm within the family.
My work with parents often focuses on navigating developmental changes, improving parent–child relationships, and managing challenges such as anxiety, defiance, emotional regulation difficulties, and family transitions. For parents raising children with unique emotional or behavioral needs, therapy offers tools for setting appropriate limits while maintaining empathy and connection.
When co-parenting after divorce or separation, I provide structured support to help parents maintain consistency, reduce conflict, and protect children from adult stressors. I also assist foster, adoptive, and blended families as they navigate attachment and identity issues that can surface throughout a child’s development.
Grounded in cognitive-behavioral and family systems approaches, sessions focus on increasing emotional awareness, enhancing communication, and promoting a calmer, more connected family environment. My goal is to help parents feel equipped, supported, and empowered to raise resilient, emotionally secure children—while also caring for themselves in the process.
22 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY (Online Only)
Cheryl S Rubenstein
Psychologist, PhD
Parenting is a challenge! I have 19 years of experience working with adults in parenting their children. If this is an area of struggle, I invite you to talk with me and see if we might be a good fit.
19 Years Experience
Online in Lexington, KY
Lexington sits at the center of Kentucky's Bluegrass region with a character distinct from Louisville — the University of Kentucky drives a significant student and young professional population alongside a traditional agricultural and equestrian community. The city's proximity to Appalachia means therapists frequently encounter the mental health effects of the region's opioid crisis, intergenerational poverty, and community grief tied to economic decline. UK HealthCare — the University of Kentucky's academic medical system — provides institutional mental health resources, with private practices concentrated in Chevy Chase, Beaumont, and Hamburg Pavilion. Lexington's horse industry also supports a niche clientele of equestrian athletes and industry professionals navigating performance pressure and career identity.
Parenting therapists in Lexington, Kentucky Statistics
Parenting therapists in Lexington, Kentucky average 20 years of experience and charge around $215 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Parenting (100%), Anxiety or Fears (87%), and Depression (84%).
Average years in practice
20 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$215
Gender ID
| 73% |
Female |
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| 26% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 67% |
In Person and Online |
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| 33% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Parenting |
| 87% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 84% | Depression |
| 59% | Loss or Grief |
| 57% | Stress |
| 57% | ADHD |
| 54% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |