Parenting therapists in Brisbane, Queensland QLD, Australia AU

We have multiple Psychologists and Counsellors who have experience supporting men, women and couples with challenging parenting issues. Find out more by calling 3726 5595 in office hours or at northbrisbanepsychologists.com.au.  

You may choose to attend parenting counselling alone, with your partner, or with your child, in order to effectively work through the issues facing your family. We can work alongside you, to better understand your child or teenager and their developmental stage, and identify strategies to support you in this challenging role as a parent.  

One of the roles that requires the most skill, we are often not trained to be parents until starting to think about having a family, and then it is often just focused on the giving birth process. We then see parents who may be reluctant to ask for support until their situation feels desperate and their children are demanding, clingy or displaying other challenging behaviours that prompt help-seeking. Our therapists provide supportive guidance to parents using a range of treatment modalities that include attachment-focused therapy and practical environmental analysis and change implementation.  

Parenting is not easy. Having the skills and knowledge to enable children to grow up making the correct choices and become responsibility is the answer to being a good parent. Parenting assists parents to focus on planning so that things go right- it enables tem to become a rereflective listener, enables them to be soloution foccused and not a rescurer. Importantly it gives them the skills not to be a dectective to their children but a support person their young can rely on.  

There are a lot of major decisions that need to be made while bringing up a little one. It has been shown over and over that children who are not exposed to ongoing parental conflict have the best outcomes. This is why it is good if parents can work out their decisions on rules, discipline, money...