Online Parenting therapists in Brainerd, Minnesota MN
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Josh Dolin: Life Coach | Purpose Pathfinder
Life Coach
Parenting can be one of life’s most rewarding yet challenging roles. My coaching approach is designed to help you navigate the complexities of parenting, from improving communication with your children to managing stress and finding balance. Whether you’re dealing with behavioral issues, co-parenting dynamics, or simply seeking to enhance your parenting skills, we’ll work together to create personalized strategies that align with your family’s needs. Schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation to explore how coaching can support you in building stronger, more meaningful relationships with your children.
9 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
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 Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
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 Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
Heather Watson-Perez
Psychologist, PhD
I work with parents to navigate challenges such as behavior management, communication, and supporting children’s emotional needs. My approach is practical and collaborative, offering strategies that can be implemented at home right away. I aim to help parents feel more confident, effective, and connected in their role.
21 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
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 Brainerd, MN
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 Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
Dr. Michael J. Gennari
Psychologist, Ph.D.
My sensitive and engaging, direct and practical, style is reported by my clients as one of their attractions to working with me. I work with Children, Adolescents and Adults, addressing ADHD, depression and anxiety, divorce, loss and medical trauma. . I would be honored with your trust in me.
39 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Melissa LaCour
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Parenting is one of the most humbling experiences a person can have — and one of the least supported. I work with parents navigating the emotional weight of raising children, particularly adoptive and foster parents whose parenting journey carries layers that traditional parenting resources rarely address. Whether you're trying to understand a child's behavior through an attachment lens, navigating conversations about identity and belonging, or simply trying to show up for your family while also taking care of yourself, this is a space where parenting's real complexity gets the attention it deserves.
8 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Dr. Sharon Herzog
Psychologist, PsyD
Many of my clients struggle with the emotional demands that come with being a parent. It doesn’t matter if their children are young or fully grown, being a parent is a constant source of fear and love and major focus of one’s emotional well-being.
15 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Omni Mental Health, Inc.
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, LICSW, DBT IOP
Parenting is one of life’s most rewarding—and sometimes challenging—journeys. At Omni Mental Health, we offer compassionate, evidence-based support to help parents navigate the complexities of raising children at any age. Whether you’re managing behavioral concerns, communication struggles, or balancing the demands of family life, our therapists provide guidance tailored to your unique family dynamics. We focus on strengthening parent-child relationships, building effective strategies, and fostering a positive, nurturing environment where both parents and children can thrive.
12 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
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 Brainerd, MN
Dr. Heidi Anderson Sauder
Psychologist, PhD, CGT, CST
Parenting can bring immense joy, but it can also create stress, conflict, exhaustion, and shifts in relationship dynamics and decimate sexual connection. Couples may struggle with differences in parenting styles, values, division of responsibilities, or maintaining emotional connection while caring for children. Gottman Method couples therapy helps parents strengthen their partnership by improving communication, increasing teamwork, and creating a more supportive and connected family environment. Therapy provides space to navigate parenting disagreements with greater understanding and respect while also prioritizing the health of the couple relationship. By building stronger emotional connection and collaborative problem-solving skills, couples can feel more united and resilient in the challenges of parenting together.
25 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Clear Path Counseling and Wellness Center
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA. LPC
Brad provides trauma-informed counseling for parenting challenges, family stress, and difficulties navigating the emotional and relational demands of raising children in today’s fast-paced and high-pressure world. Many parents feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure how to manage behavior challenges, communication breakdowns, discipline concerns, or emotional disconnection within the family system.
Brad takes a holistic and supportive approach to parenting and family counseling, helping parents understand the underlying stressors, emotional triggers, and relational patterns that may be impacting the home environment. Therapy focuses on creating practical, realistic strategies to improve communication, strengthen connection, reduce conflict, and build a more stable and supportive family dynamic.
As an experienced trauma therapist and EMDR therapist, Brad integrates EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), trauma-informed counseling, emotional regulation skills, and holistic therapeutic approaches to support both individual healing and healthier family functioning. When appropriate, therapy may also explore how past trauma, stress, or unresolved emotional experiences can influence parenting responses, emotional reactivity, and family relationships.
Parenting challenges often occur in the context of broader life stress, emotional overwhelm, and competing responsibilities. Brad’s approach helps clients develop greater emotional awareness, patience, and regulation while also building effective boundaries, coping strategies, and communication tools that support healthier interactions within the family system.
Therapy is collaborative, practical, and tailored to each family’s unique needs and goals. The focus is on reducing stress, improving relationships, and creating a more peaceful, connected, and emotionally supportive home environment.
The goal of therapy is to help parents feel more confident, grounded, and supported while strengthening family relationships and fostering long-term emotional health, stability, and connection.
28 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
Dr. Lindsay Perrin
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Grief is a deeply personal experience that unfolds differently for everyone. There is no "right" way to grieve, and healing rarely follows a predictable path. My role is to provide a compassionate, supportive space where you can process your loss at your own pace, make sense of the emotions that arise, and gradually find ways to move forward while honoring the significance of what you've lost.
14 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
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 Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
Kelli Tahaney
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D.
Given my interest in working with adolescents, I also enjoy working with parents of adolescents to help work on understanding this developmental period better as well as on specific skills to utilize with teens such as communication skills.
5 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Panoramic Perspectives Therapy and Training
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, LPCC, LADC
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs you will ever take on. You do not have to go it alone. We have therapists who understand the unique challengers of parenting a child in today's world. They want to support you and your family in being the best parent you can possibly be. Reach out today to schedule a parenting consultation or family therapy or therapy for your child.
19 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Dr. Nicole Montes
Psychologist, PsyD
The birth of a child can be a magical time, it can also be a time of incredible challenge. I see it as my job to hold both of these realities with clients. Becoming a parent can also be trigger and stir up trauma related to our own childhood and add stress to a partner relationship. I help clients unpack this so that they can more forward to parent with more intentionality and in alignment to their values. There is no better time to work towards dismantling patterns of generational trauma and build a foundation for generational healing.
5 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
Be BOLD Psychology and Consulting
Psychologist, Ph.D
Whether you’re parenting a neurodivergent kiddo, navigating co-parenting stress, or just trying not to repeat old patterns, we’re here. We support parents in building stronger, more connected relationships with their children — while also giving space for your needs, struggles, and healing.
8 Years Experience
Online in Brainerd, MN
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 Brainerd, MN (Online Only)
Parenting therapists in Brainerd, Minnesota Statistics
Parenting therapists in Brainerd, Minnesota 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 (86%), and Depression (84%).
Average years in practice
20 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$215
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 25% |
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 |
| 86% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 84% | Depression |
| 59% | Stress |
| 58% | ADHD |
| 58% | Loss or Grief |
| 55% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |