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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 Palmdale, the suburbs of Palmdale, other nearby places such as Arcadia, Pasadena, 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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Lauren Permenter
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Learn strategies for regulating your nervous system, process early childhood experiences that impact the present, gain concrete tools to use today, explore negative thinking patterns that are keeping you trapped, laugh, cry and gain new insights.


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Learn strategies for regulating your nervous system, process early childhood experiences that impact the present, gain concrete tools to use today, explore negative thinking patterns that are keeping you trapped, laugh, cry and gain new insights.

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I treat anxiety and trauma with mind-body modalities such as EMDR and somatic based approaches, while also incorporating DBT OR CBT to practice replacing unhealthy thoughts with constructive alternatives.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Creatives
  • Depression
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Grief
  • Parenting
  • Perfectionism
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Trauma
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Sandy Kong
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walk this journey of life together. It's hard to navigate alone. I bring my life experience plus the knowledge, skills, and insight I've developed over the years into a space to co-create along with you, your experience, knowledge, and insight.


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walk this journey of life together. It's hard to navigate alone. I bring my life experience plus the knowledge, skills, and insight I've developed over the years into a space to co-create along with you, your experience, knowledge, and insight.

Something to know about my approach is:

Are you tired of code/persona switching? Feeling worn out from wearing too many masks? Are there are some underlying behaviors & emotions that don't seem to make sense but want to understand? I will honor & respect who you are as a whole human being

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Acculturation Issues
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adoption
  • Ancestral Trauma
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Asian and Pacific Islanders
  • Attachment Issues
  • Behavior Change
  • Bicultural
  • Biracial Women
  • Borderline Personality
  • Burnout
  • Career Burnout
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Children of Immigrants
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Codependency
  • Communication Skills
  • Complex Trauma
  • Complicated Grief
  • Cultural Issues
  • Cultural Trauma
  • Depression
  • East Asian Cultural Issues
  • Families
  • First Generation Issues
  • First Responders
  • Friendships
  • Grief
  • Guilt
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)
  • Immigrants
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Job Stress
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Multicultural Identity
  • Negative Self-Talk
  • Perfectionism
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychedelic Integration
  • Racial Trauma
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Refugees
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Self-Doubt
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Sabotage
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Social Anxiety
  • South Asians
  • Stress
  • Teenagers
  • Teen Parents
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Traumatic Loss
  • Trust Issues
  • Women
  • Womxn's Health
  • Work Stress
  • Worrying
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Rachelle Bloksberg
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reduce stress, ADHD symptoms, depression & anxiety & increase self-esteem & hope, explore ways to manage & cope, & focus on what you want. I'll treat you respectfully without judgment. Find ways to improve your life & be the best version of yourself.


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reduce stress, ADHD symptoms, depression & anxiety & increase self-esteem & hope, explore ways to manage & cope, & focus on what you want. I'll treat you respectfully without judgment. Find ways to improve your life & be the best version of yourself.

Something to know about my approach is:

Social justice, compassion, & inclusivity are important to me. I believe therapy can include humor. Things don't have to get worse before they get better. You can gain hope and start to feel better after your first session. Many of my clients do.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abusive Relationships
  • Acute Grief
  • Addictions
  • ADHD in Womxn or Femme Populations
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adolescents
  • Adoption
  • Adult ADHD
  • Alternative Relationships
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxiety Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Autism in Adults
  • Autism in Womxn or Femme Populations
  • BIPOC
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Caregivers
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Communication Skills
  • Complex Anxiety
  • Complicated Grief
  • Co-Parenting
  • Couples
  • COVID-Related Stress and Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Disenfranchised Grief
  • Eco-Anxiety
  • Empty Nest
  • Failure to Launch
  • Families with Autism-related challenges
  • Fear of Failure
  • Food Allergy Anxiety
  • Functional Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Grief Due to Addiction
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Health Anxiety
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Loving Someone with Addiction
  • Medical Trauma
  • Men
  • Mild Depression
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Neurodivergence
  • Open Relationships
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Children With Autism
  • Parenting Skills
  • Parenting Special Needs Children
  • Parenting Style Mismatch
  • Polyamory
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Religious Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Situational Grief
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicide loss
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Trauma
  • Values
  • Vegan
  • Women
  • Young Adults
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Emma Javits
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We will co-create a safe place for you to express your innermost needs and feelings. I will help guide you to be more in touch with your own inner wisdom, knowing, and authenticity in order to alleviate feelings of fear, disconnection, and sadness.


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We will co-create a safe place for you to express your innermost needs and feelings. I will help guide you to be more in touch with your own inner wisdom, knowing, and authenticity in order to alleviate feelings of fear, disconnection, and sadness.

Something to know about my approach is:

In session, I use integrative approaches, most notably Internal Family Systems (IFS), which posits that our minds are akin to families; each part plays a role and may have conflict with other parts of us. I find this approach self-empowering.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Life Changes
  • Life Transitions
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parenting
  • Relationships
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MARIA Griffin
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My goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental place where a deeper level of understanding ones wants, needs, thoughts and feelings exists. It's never too late to discover the life you desire!


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My goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental place where a deeper level of understanding ones wants, needs, thoughts and feelings exists. It's never too late to discover the life you desire!

Something to know about my approach is:

Initially, person centered therapy often works well with other modalities while allowing for long-term empowerment as well as opportunities for a holistic approach towards healing.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Career
  • Coaching
  • Depressive Disorders
  • End of Life
  • Life Transitions
  • Parental Burnout
  • Racial Trauma
  • Relationship Skills
  • Women’s Health
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MARIA Griffin remote and phone therapy in California, Mississippi, Texas