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Parenting is a rewarding experience with ups and downs, but there are times when the downs are too much to handle on your own. A parenting therapist can devise strategies to help you get through difficult situations that arise as you’re parenting.

Many therapists specialize in working with parents, new mothers, and fathers trying to figure out how to be a better parent and partner. Whether you are located in downtown El Cajon, the suburbs of El Cajon, other nearby places such as National City, San Diego, or anywhere else in California, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Signs You Could Benefit from Parenting Counseling

Parent therapy may be helpful to you if you’re dealing with any of the following issues:

  • You’re a new parent and feeling stressed out.
  • You’re the parent of an older child and not sure how to best relate to them.
  • You are having problems in your marriage related to parenting or parenting styles.
  • You’ve relocated and things in your family feel unsettled.
  • You need to vent about your parenting frustrations.
  • You want to improve your parenting skills.
  • You want to figure out the type of parent you want to be.

Licensed therapist Mara Fisher has some thoughts to help parents. If you are feeling the stress and pressure of parenting, read this article: Is There a Right Way to Parent?

Help is Available: Get Parenting Therapy Today

Parenting is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, and it can take a toll on you, mentally and physically. With a parenting therapist, you’ll be able to examine and remedy those problems that make parenting harder. To make finding a therapist easy, use Mental Health Match. Start by browsing below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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I help you explore childhood and inner experiences influencing your interaction in your relationship with yourself and others.

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Life can be really hard sometimes, whether you are feeling overwhelmed with life's stressors or struggling to navigate relationships. If you are regularly experiencing overwhelming feelings of worry, anxiety, panic, sadness, I can help.


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Life can be really hard sometimes, whether you are feeling overwhelmed with life's stressors or struggling to navigate relationships. If you are regularly experiencing overwhelming feelings of worry, anxiety, panic, sadness, I can help.

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Throughout my career, I have focused my efforts on creating a collaborative relationship with my clients, helping them to identify their own strengths in order to address both symptoms and core conflicts.

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Focus on what’s important to you and help you see blind spots to meet your life and internal goals more effectively.

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Direct, solution-focused, and emotionally available.

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Find out what values you and/or your family hold and use that as a guide for healing. Whether I’m working with an adult, child or family, I prioritize their values, create a safe space to process, and I go at the client’s pace to make progress.


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Find out what values you and/or your family hold and use that as a guide for healing. Whether I’m working with an adult, child or family, I prioritize their values, create a safe space to process, and I go at the client’s pace to make progress.

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I am an empathic listener and work together with my clients to find out what is most meaningful to them. Together, we make actionable steps towards healing.

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Common issues people seek therapy are for depression, divorce, anxiety, parenting, life changes, cultural issues, job stress, adjustments, stress, and low self esteem.


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Common issues people seek therapy are for depression, divorce, anxiety, parenting, life changes, cultural issues, job stress, adjustments, stress, and low self esteem.

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I believe coming in therapy 1xs a week is not sufficient to correct years of established patterns. Thus, I will give you homework and hold you accountable in what we discuss in therapy. We must change, in order for things to change.

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