Parent Counselling

Name: Safe Place Therapy
Price range: $$

What is Parenting?

Parenting is a unique journey of learning, growing, changing, and adapting for both you and your child. Being a parent can also be as challenging as it is rewarding.

Parents are required to fulfill many different roles – teacher, mediator, first aider, housekeeper, cleaner, chauffeur and banker, just to name a few.

Parents also have to negotiate many other competing responsibilities and are often trying to strike a balance between family and work, all whilst trying to develop and maintain a strong relationship with their children. That’s a lot to expect from any one person!

How can Parent Counselling help?

As you are reading this page, we already know what a wonderful parent you are. Undoubtedly, there are many strengths that you already have in raising your kids, but at times parents can get stuck in the worries of “am I doing a good enough job?”.

Some of the challenges you may be experiencing with your children that we can provide support with include: 

Stress and anxiety
School refusal
Bullying and self esteem
Screen time and social media issues
Difficulties with friendships and family relationships

Guidance of Parents at Safe Place Therapy

At Safe Place Therapy we see parents as the expert in their family. Our counsellors use a person-centred, strengths-based, and solution-focused approach to help parents identify, build, and draw upon their existing strengths.  We provide tools and strategies to help grow parenting skills and foster positive relationships with your children and families. 

Our counsellors draw upon techniques from evidence-based programs such as Tuning into Kids/Teens and Parents Building Solutions, and various other resources to help you overcome challenges and improve family functioning.

There are also many different areas that we can explore together and help you build upon, including: 

Improve communication with your child
Be more aware of your child’s needs
Help your child learn to manage their feelings
Better manage challenging behaviours
Teach your child to handle conflict and bounce back from disappointment
Have agreements that work
Remain calm when their pushing boundaries
Practice parental self-care

Benefits of the Parent Support

Parents can often feel guilt or shame for many different reasons including cultural norms, social pressures and our own personal expectations and evaluation of our parenting

The benefits of receiving one-on-one support are that you are given the space to fully explore your family’s challenges and needs with an empathetic and non-judgmental counsellor. 

Parenting support can be delivered in a six-session format with the option of booster sessions. Parents can attend individually or together; the choice is yours.

The sessions include psychoeducation, role plays and experimental exercises, film materials, handouts, and home activities, especially conversations between the parent and child.

Our parenting counsellors are experienced in delivering parent counselling support and are more than happy to provide support to you and your family. Parent Counsellors are also happy to work with your young person if they are struggling and then feedback back tools to best support them.

Finding the right support for parenting can feel difficult. Help is here, just reach out for it.
At Safe Place Therapy our parenting support is effective. We are here to help you.