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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 Joliet, the suburbs of Joliet, other nearby places such as Bolingbrook, Plainfield, or anywhere else in Illinois, 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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Angela Olson
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Angela will assist individuals in setting realistic goals to help them grow and heal throughout life and to identify and remove obstacles preventing them from moving forward. We will explore personal meaning and purpose in life to improve wellbeing.


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Angela will assist individuals in setting realistic goals to help them grow and heal throughout life and to identify and remove obstacles preventing them from moving forward. We will explore personal meaning and purpose in life to improve wellbeing.

Something to know about my approach is:

Angela takes an integrative and holistic approach to treating clients. Angela believes therapy is about personal wellness and that everyone can benefit from the process. She places a strong focus on assisting clients to achieve their full potential.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Adult ADHD
  • Adult Adoptees
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Attachment Issues
  • Bereavement
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  • Bipolar II
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  • Boundaries
  • Burnout
  • Child Abuse
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
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  • Confidence
  • Co-Parenting
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  • Depression
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  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Emerging Adults
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • Existential Crisis
  • Financial Stress
  • Grief
  • High-Functioning Autism
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Life Adjustment
  • Loneliness
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mood Swings
  • Multiple Personalities
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Skills
  • Perfectionism
  • Personal Growth
  • Personality Disorders
  • Postpartum
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Professional Women
  • Psychosis
  • Relationship Skills
  • Schizophrenia
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self Care
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicide loss
  • Trauma
  • Trauma From Abuse
  • Traumatic Loss
  • Women
  • Work Stress
  • Worrying
  • Young Adults
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Let's collaboratively determine, clarify, and work towards YOUR values and goals for your life. You have the life experience and the knowledge about yourself and I want you to trust in yourself, as well as our therapeutic relationship.


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Let's collaboratively determine, clarify, and work towards YOUR values and goals for your life. You have the life experience and the knowledge about yourself and I want you to trust in yourself, as well as our therapeutic relationship.

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I encourage transparency, value-driven decision making, self-compassion, and making room for your thoughts and feelings. I will help you navigate mental health issues in a psychologically flexible way, which translates to richer life experience.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Families
  • Food Allergy Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Life Adjustment
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parenting
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Emily Kitchen
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work together to get you to a place of peace and feeling in control. I can help with boundaries, improved coping strategies and being mindful of thought processes. My motto is you are not alone, and you are not to blame. With help, you will be well.


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work together to get you to a place of peace and feeling in control. I can help with boundaries, improved coping strategies and being mindful of thought processes. My motto is you are not alone, and you are not to blame. With help, you will be well.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am passionate about working with parents who are struggling with the transition into parenthood. I'm a survivor of postpartum depression & anxiety & wanted to give back after finding the support that I needed. I will work with you at your own pace.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Co-Parenting
  • Fatherhood
  • High-Risk Pregnancy
  • Infertility
  • Motherhood
  • New Parent
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parenting Skills
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss
  • Women’s Health
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Miriam Zuroff
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Discuss the issues that brought you into therapy and the changes you would like to see in your life and the best ways to reach those goals. We will work at a pace that is comfortable for you and sometimes I will simply be a listening ear.


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Together, we will:

Discuss the issues that brought you into therapy and the changes you would like to see in your life and the best ways to reach those goals. We will work at a pace that is comfortable for you and sometimes I will simply be a listening ear.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am very eclectic implementing a mix of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and positive psychology techniques, I believe one approach does not work with all. I tailor-make treatment to meet the needs of each individual client or couple.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Infertility
  • Life Changes
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (OCSDs)
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Seasonal Depression
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Lourdes Valdes
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Explore thoughts and experiences behind important feelings as well as effective and lasting strategies that will help better manage worries and moods. We will regularly assess symptoms to assure that our work is making a positive difference.


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Together, we will:

Explore thoughts and experiences behind important feelings as well as effective and lasting strategies that will help better manage worries and moods. We will regularly assess symptoms to assure that our work is making a positive difference.

Something to know about my approach is:

I primarily use behavioral and cognitive methods that have clear scientific support for their effectiveness and efficiency. My methods are active, directive, and educative; I aim at solving the problems that the client faces here and now.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Panic Disorders
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children with Anxiety
  • Social Anxiety
  • Teen Anxiety
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Lourdes Valdes remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nor...