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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. Wherever you are located in California from Alameda to Yucaipa or even Montclair, or anywhere else nearby, 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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William Lee
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Have a space dedicated to you and your parenthood experience and how it fits into your life. We can focus on the difficult things, things we rarely talk openly about, and most importantly, how to get through them.


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Have a space dedicated to you and your parenthood experience and how it fits into your life. We can focus on the difficult things, things we rarely talk openly about, and most importantly, how to get through them.

Something to know about my approach is:

Our sessions is to provide an experience for you. Meaning the experience of you being seen, processing and working through your emotions, beliefs and relationships, will be the key drivers to elicit healing and change.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Depression
  • Motherhood
  • New Parent
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Skills
  • Postpartum
  • Single Parents
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Carrie Anne Cox
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Work together to better understand challenges in your life and long-standing behavior patterns that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling life.


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Work together to better understand challenges in your life and long-standing behavior patterns that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I utilize an eclectic approach that includes evidenced based practices and is both warm and directive. I believe in meeting my clients where they are and helping them navigate difficult emotions and situations at their pace.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Blended Families
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Family Conflict
  • Parenting Special Needs Children
  • Relationship Distress
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stepfamilies
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Taylor Barragan
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I am a client-centered therapist but I do not sit in silence - I am active and will "be with you" in whatever you bring to therapy. I won't share much about myself, but I promise to be human with you. We will work toward what is most important to you


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I am a client-centered therapist but I do not sit in silence - I am active and will "be with you" in whatever you bring to therapy. I won't share much about myself, but I promise to be human with you. We will work toward what is most important to you

Something to know about my approach is:

I use humor when appropriate and don't assign random "homework" just because in therapy - I do however recommend activities, books, and podcasts for use in between sessions when appropriate and specific to a client's goals.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Burnout
  • College Students
  • Depression
  • Health Anxiety
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Parenting
  • Persistant Depressive Disorder
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
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Angela M Hernandez
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My approach will be based on what best fits the client/s. The approaches I used are Psychodynamic, Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Person-centered. I want/ like clients to walk away lighter than when they first walked in.


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My approach will be based on what best fits the client/s. The approaches I used are Psychodynamic, Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Person-centered. I want/ like clients to walk away lighter than when they first walked in.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, born and raised in the Coachella Valley. I provide therapy for individuals, families, couples, adolescents and children. I received my postgraduate at Brandman University in Master’s of Arts/Psychology.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adolescent-Parent Separation
  • Adolescent Risk Behaviors
  • Adolescent Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Childhood Issues
  • Children of Divorce
  • Children of Parents With Substance Use Disorders
  • COVID-Related Stress and Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Family Dynamics
  • Family Trauma
  • Financial Stress
  • Health Anxiety
  • Loving Someone with Addiction
  • Mild Depression
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Relationship Distress
  • Social Anxiety
  • Teenagers
  • Teen Depression
  • Young Adults
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Debbie Cherry
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Clients come to me when they are ready to stop the negative cycles and create a relationship they love. It starts with clear communication that helps you see & hear each other. Becoming a better TEAM will help you be better partners.


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Clients come to me when they are ready to stop the negative cycles and create a relationship they love. It starts with clear communication that helps you see & hear each other. Becoming a better TEAM will help you be better partners.

Something to know about my approach is:

Most therapists start with the problems... I start with SOLUTIONS! Hundreds of clients have shared that they feel so empowered with the step-by-step exercises for couples to be able to COMMUNICATE in a way that brings them closer.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Alternative Relationships
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxious Attachment
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attachment Styles
  • Bisexuality
  • Career Counseling
  • Coming Out
  • Commitment Issues
  • Communication Skills
  • Compulsive Sexuality/Hypersexuality
  • Connection
  • Conscious Uncoupling
  • Co-Parenting
  • Coping Skills
  • Corporate Leaders
  • Couples
  • Couples Sex Therapy
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Engagement
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Executive Coaching
  • Families
  • Gay
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Leadership Development
  • Lesbian
  • Low Sex Drive
  • Marriage
  • Mindfulness
  • Mixed Orientation Relationships
  • New Parent
  • Open Relationships
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Skills
  • Parenting Style Mismatch
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Sex Anxiety
  • Sex Therapy
  • Sexual Issues
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Sexual Self-Esteem
  • Stepfamilies
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Debbie Cherry remote and phone therapy in California, Florida, Texas