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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 San Francisco, Bayview, Chinatown, Civic Center, or even Fishermans Wharf, 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.

San Francisco, CA Parenting Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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We are an active part of your treatment. We focus on helping people find stability, life satisfaction and self-love. To do this effectively, means we offer insights and feedback, encourage you to dig deeper and challenge you.


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Our vision is to work with the WHOLE person- mentally, emotionally, spiritually & physically. One person cannot do this all, which is why Free Spirit teamed up with other practitioners who specialize in these specific areas of healing.

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  • Anxiety
  • College Students
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Grief
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Changes
  • Marriage
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationships
  • School Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Spirituality
  • Stepfamilies
  • Transgender
  • Trauma
  • Working Professionals
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Work 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 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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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.

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  • Anxiety
  • Blended Families
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Family Conflict
  • Parenting Special Needs Children
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  • Self-Esteem
  • Stepfamilies
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Stephanie Harad
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Identify your deepest held values support you in unhooking from habituated strategies that limit your acceptance of yourself and others so that you can approach your life and relationships with open-heartedness, resilience, and true intimacy.


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Identify your deepest held values support you in unhooking from habituated strategies that limit your acceptance of yourself and others so that you can approach your life and relationships with open-heartedness, resilience, and true intimacy.

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I'm very collaborative and humble. I bring and acknowledge myself and my personality into the therapeutic connection. We travel together as equals. You are the expert on yourself.

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  • Adolescents
  • Anxiety
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  • Parenting
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Shelby Singer
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Create frameworks for measuring progress and achieving your desired outcome/s. I will assist you by offering meaningful feedback and support in order to live a healthier, happier, and more balanced life.


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Create frameworks for measuring progress and achieving your desired outcome/s. I will assist you by offering meaningful feedback and support in order to live a healthier, happier, and more balanced life.

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My number one goal is to create trusting and nurturing relationship with you in order to reach your full potential. I can assist in building upon your own strengths and abilities in order to live more authentically.

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  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
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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
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  • Anxiety Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Autism in Adults
  • Autism in Womxn or Femme Populations
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  • 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
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  • Situational Grief
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  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicide loss
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  • Values
  • Vegan
  • Women
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