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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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We'll explore patterns, behaviors, and past adversities that have influenced your life. Through this collaboration, you'll acquire tools to change behavior and foster healthier coping strategies.

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I actively engage with you and provide feedback. I draw from a variety of therapeutic modalities to customize your sessions. I'm trained in culturally responsive and trauma-informed practices that promote feelings of safety and support.

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Yanina Rivera Lopez
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Co-create a journey of self-reflection, cultural responsiveness, breaking generational patterns, systemic influences, healing, creativity, and creating a safe, inclusive space in alignment with your values.

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I draw upon my background in community organizing, performance art/dance, and mental health to offer a holistic and culturally responsive approach to therapy. I am committed to decolonizing mental health and centering your voice.

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create an emotionally safe space where you feel seen, heard, and understood. Within this therapeutic container, we will delve into both current and past stressors, and examine their impact on relationships, life satisfaction, and career.


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create an emotionally safe space where you feel seen, heard, and understood. Within this therapeutic container, we will delve into both current and past stressors, and examine their impact on relationships, life satisfaction, and career.

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as a therapist, I utilize an integrative approach, drawing from diverse modalities like Attachment-Based, CBT, Compassion-focused, DBT, Interpersonal, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic, Supportive, and Trauma-focused therapies. Tailoring interventions to ea

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Therapy with me will equip you to defeat self-deprecating patterns, harness your internal strengths, and get you back into your life.


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Therapy with me will equip you to defeat self-deprecating patterns, harness your internal strengths, and get you back into your life.

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Drawing on emotion-focused, mindfulness, somatic, and cognitive-behavioral (cbt) techniques, I will help you explore how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are maintaining your distress and keeping you stuck.

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Dr. Marissa Davis
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discuss the aspects of yourself that have gone unspoken, difficult to name, misunderstood, or overlooked by others. We'll clarify how your past is imprinted onto your present and create new paths to fulfillment, self-acceptance, and relational peace.


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Together, we will:

discuss the aspects of yourself that have gone unspoken, difficult to name, misunderstood, or overlooked by others. We'll clarify how your past is imprinted onto your present and create new paths to fulfillment, self-acceptance, and relational peace.

Something to know about my approach is:

I hold space for you to discuss experiences, identity, and relationships. Using a psychodynamic approach, we'll explore thoughts, memories, feelings, and associations which will uncover hidden defenses and motives for behaviors you'd like to change.

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