At times parenting get difficult, parents struggle developing their child’s skills or experience a hard time maintaining positive communication with their child. Counselling / psychotherapy can help parents to develop skills to resolve conflicts and create a positive relationship with their child.
My approach is grounded in authenticity, trust, and often humour. I believe you have the wisdom to navigate life’s challenges and I strive to help empower you to facilitate change in therapy. Each family is difference, and therapy can offer a space to explore your expectations and approaches to parenting. I work with individuals, couples, children and families offering a free consultation to ensure we are a good fit. I carry a systemic lens, exploring the way culture, community and family shape our experiences and aspirations. I am committed to strength-based and anti-oppressive practice in my work. I recognize the importance and responsibility I have as a therapist, to address the systemic inequalities impacting clients in their lives.
Parenting therapy can provide a supportive space to develop approaches that work for your child(ren) and family. It can be a space for parents and caregivers to explore the expectations they hold for themselves and their children, and to further question whether these ideals limit or serve them. By developing insight into your child’s needs and your own capacities, you can learn to respond to challenges with parenting approaches grounded in authenticity and connection.
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.
I work with parents to give them the support they need to be the parents they want to be. Parenting is a more difficult job than most of us ever imagine. What we want most is the best for our children but knowing what to do and how to best parent our kids isn't always straightforward. I am here as a sounding board and to support you with one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs there is.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in life. There is no manual for how to raise children/teens and we are bound to make mistakes. However, you can learn skills to help you attune to your child's feelings to help them feel safe. Children/teenagers can often feel confused about their emotions, which can lead to unhealthy thoughts and behaviours. Let us work together through play or expressive arts in understanding your child's/teen's needs for love and security.
Many of our registered psychologists and licensed therapists have extensive training and experience providing parent consultation to parents about children's mental health needs, behavioural challenges and relationship issues.
My specialty is working with children, adolescents and families. I also specialize working with people with autism across all life spans and other diagnoses presenting