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Find Parenting Therapists & Counselors in Salinas, CA.

 

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 Salinas, the suburbs of Salinas, other nearby places such as Campbell, Santa Cruz, 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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Abby Thompson
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get clear about your goals and desires, get in touch with your needs, and explore how you relate to others and the world. Through real-time awareness and processing, we can create freedom and confidence.


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get clear about your goals and desires, get in touch with your needs, and explore how you relate to others and the world. Through real-time awareness and processing, we can create freedom and confidence.

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I'm so invested in working with what's actually happening in real time, because that's where change can happen. I make it easy to get in touch with your feelings, and when we can really contact them, we can transform them into something awesome.

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  • Body Acceptance
  • Body Image
  • Disordered Eating
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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.

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  • Anxiety
  • Creatives
  • Depression
  • Fears and Phobias
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  • Perfectionism
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  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Trauma
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Melis Alkin
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Adjusting to different stages and responsibilities, coping with emotions and past events or childhood of origin issues that continue to get triggered, changing relationships, increasing self-compassion, and meaning making of the past and present.


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Adjusting to different stages and responsibilities, coping with emotions and past events or childhood of origin issues that continue to get triggered, changing relationships, increasing self-compassion, and meaning making of the past and present.

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My approach is collaborative and my sessions are guided by your goals, concerns, and your readiness to make changes. I would like to learn about what made you seek therapy at this point in your life.

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  • Adjustment Issues
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  • Couples
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  • Parental Burnout
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
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  • Relationship Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Toxic Work Environment
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Workplace Issues
  • Work Stress
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Olga Garay
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Together, we'll set goals and identify key areas of focus. We'll prioritize urgent concerns while also assessing strategies for increasing self-awareness, increasing self-care, strengthening emotional wellness, and improving overall peace of mind.


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Together, we'll set goals and identify key areas of focus. We'll prioritize urgent concerns while also assessing strategies for increasing self-awareness, increasing self-care, strengthening emotional wellness, and improving overall peace of mind.

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I use collaborative approach to uncover your strengths and rediscover areas of resilience. Employing a strengths-based approach, I assist clients in harnessing their resilience to achieve inner harmony, cultivate a sense of security, and calmness.

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  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Coaching
  • Confidence
  • Depression
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  • Latinos
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  • Panic Attacks
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  • Postpartum Anxiety
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  • Self-Regulation
  • Social Anxiety
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Work Stress
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Kristin Marguerite Doidge
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We will explore creative blocks/barriers to creativity/productivity, burnout prevention, relationship conflict/distress, boundary-setting, symptom management, anxiety, depression, ADHD, communication skills, assertiveness skills, overcoming trauma.


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We will explore creative blocks/barriers to creativity/productivity, burnout prevention, relationship conflict/distress, boundary-setting, symptom management, anxiety, depression, ADHD, communication skills, assertiveness skills, overcoming trauma.

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I will help you build upon your own unique set of strengths to find greater clarity, more creativity, and an improved sense of purpose and fulfillment.

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  • Adult ADHD
  • Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents
  • Aging Parents
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Artists and Creative Personalities
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  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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  • Couples
  • Creative Expression
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  • Distress Tolerance
  • Entrepreneurial Women
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  • Graduate Students
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  • Grief from Losing a Pet
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  • Job Loss
  • LGBTQ+
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  • Negative Self-Talk
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Compassion
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