Parenting therapists in Fort Erie, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Parenting
Emmy Montemurro-Baxter
Registered Psychotherapist, MScEd, RP, RMFT
Parenting children of any age can be both rewarding and challenging. If you are having difficulty meeting the challenges you face in parenting or coparenting, therapy can offer you the opportunity to discover strategies for managing your child(ren)’s behaviour and develop an approach to parenting that includes:
- empathy, encouragement and responsiveness
- limits and healthy boundaries
- valuing each party involved
28 Years Experience
Parenting
Angie Kingma (Mindfulness for Health)
Registered Psychotherapist, OT Reg.(Ont.), Registered Psychotherapist
As a Registered Psychotherapist, I will support you in understanding the patterns that have emerged in your role as a parent. Our triggers are often rooted in old, unhealed wounds inside us that we don't even know are there. You will learn a whole new way of coping with your stress and triggered, using strategies that are rooted in evidence-based interventions. Taking a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens, we will go at your pace and ensure that you meet the goals that are meaningful to you. Looking forward to hearing from you so that you can parent from a place of consciousness and mindfulness, and move forward with more clarity, insight, self-awareness, self-compassion, empowerment and confidence. This gift of mindful parenting will benefit both you and your child/teen/young adult.
24 Years Experience
Parenting
Whiteboard Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Parenting in the modern world can often feel like a thankless exercise. Parents today are forced to navigate social and technological issues which can be exhausting to face with their children. Understanding how to navigate your own parenting values in light of these circumstances is crucial, and our therapists can help provide you with the clarity to do so.
23 Years Experience
Parenting
Kristie Brassard & Associates
Registered Social Worker, RSW
Our therapist Anna is a parent, a social worker and a teacher. She is passionate about supporting children, youth, and young adults, as well those who care for them. Anna brings her extensive personal and professional experiences to sessions, and uses a variety of modalities, to help guide parents along the parenting journey. She meets each of her clients where they’re at, helping them navigate the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of parenthood.
14 Years Experience
Parenting
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