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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 Santa Clara, the suburbs of Santa Clara, other nearby places such as Campbell, Sunnyvale, 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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Alysha Thomas
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As a LMFT, I aim to build a trusting relationship, discussing your personal history and current stressors. Our sessions will be flexible, connecting past experiences to present behaviors. I want you to leave our sessions empowered.


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As a LMFT, I aim to build a trusting relationship, discussing your personal history and current stressors. Our sessions will be flexible, connecting past experiences to present behaviors. I want you to leave our sessions empowered.

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As a certified Prepare-Enrich facilitator, I specialize in couples therapy. I use different methods based on your needs, including talk therapy and motivational interviewing. My focus is on your strengths and empowerment.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mood Disorders
  • Panic Attacks
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationships
  • Social Anxiety
  • Trauma
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Victoria Osteen
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Increase your joy, confidence, ease and sense of meaning. Identify your parenting vision and build a roadmap for it.


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Increase your joy, confidence, ease and sense of meaning. Identify your parenting vision and build a roadmap for it.

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I work primarily with parents, helping them feel their best during these hard but precious years. We give proper space for complex thoughts and feelings and build a toolkit of coping skills, parenting strategies, perspectives and self-awareness.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Birth Trauma
  • Depression
  • New Parent
  • NICU Trauma
  • Parenting
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
  • Postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Stress
  • Trauma
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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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Lauren Cook
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build insight, get curious, and help you grow outside of our sessions to see real changes in your life. We'll focus on the future and help you make positive changes that impact your life in the direction you intentionally want to go.


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Together, we will:

build insight, get curious, and help you grow outside of our sessions to see real changes in your life. We'll focus on the future and help you make positive changes that impact your life in the direction you intentionally want to go.

Something to know about my approach is:

I'm not a therapist who sits back and expects you to talk the entire time. Of course, if that's what you need--then I'm here to listen! But if you're looking for a collaborative and engaging therapist, then we'll be a great fit.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxious Attachment
  • Attachment Styles
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Pregnancy
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Skills
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Jill Durby
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Together we will help you reduce suffering, improve relationships, and feel comfortable with emotion. We examine what is holding you back, while working to practice new skills to get "unstuck" from old patterns and moving towards the life you want.


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Together, we will:

Together we will help you reduce suffering, improve relationships, and feel comfortable with emotion. We examine what is holding you back, while working to practice new skills to get "unstuck" from old patterns and moving towards the life you want.

Something to know about my approach is:

My work is grounded in therapy proven to be effective in practice, not just theory. I primarily use a CBT model, where together we will examine thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and make meaningful changes towards achieving your desired goals.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adults
  • Anxiety
  • Borderline Personality
  • Children
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Self-Harm
  • Teenagers
  • Young Adults
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