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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 Columbia, the suburbs of Columbia, other nearby places such as Quincy, Jefferson City, or anywhere else in Missouri, 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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Co-create. Seek clarity. Get grounded. Heal your pain. Seek to understand and appreciate what it's like to be you.

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I take a pragmatic and practical approach to helping my clients. I actively participate in our sessions while providing ample space for you to freely explore and allow ideas to emerge organically.

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The goals for therapy can range from the relief of your symptoms to making significant life changes. The process of therapy includes developing skills to address your emotions, thoughts, core beliefs, and habits.


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The goals for therapy can range from the relief of your symptoms to making significant life changes. The process of therapy includes developing skills to address your emotions, thoughts, core beliefs, and habits.

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My framework to therapy is holistic health taking into account your mental, emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual well-being. My therapy methods are based on the best evidence-based practices in the research and training of psychologists.

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  • Adjustment Issues
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
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My goal in our therapy or coaching sessions is to help you tap into your own resilience as you deepen insight, foster personal empowerment, and create meaningful, lasting changes in your life and relationships.

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My experience as a wilderness therapist has taught me the immense power of relationships- relationships with ourselves, our significant others, and with nature- for personal growth and self-actualization. Relationships are everything!

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Lauren Robinson
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I want my clients to be able to discuss what they want, when they want, but we will also set goals, structure and actions steps to help us move toward relief and peace. I believe in a collaborative process and am honored to be along for the ride.


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I want my clients to be able to discuss what they want, when they want, but we will also set goals, structure and actions steps to help us move toward relief and peace. I believe in a collaborative process and am honored to be along for the ride.

Something to know about my approach is:

A few of my approaches include- Solutions-focused, Strengths-based, trauma informed and emotionally focused therapies. I also am client centered, and want to help YOU- therapy isn't one size fits all.

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  • Acute Grief
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Career Counseling
  • Children of Divorce
  • Codependency
  • Complicated Grief
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  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Family Conflict
  • Family Dynamics
  • Geriatric
  • Grief
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • High School
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Skills
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Skills
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • School Issues
  • Self Care
  • Senior Citizens
  • Situational Grief
  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicide loss
  • Transgender
  • Trauma
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Laci Roberts
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work through whatever you brings in. I work with clients on issues like anxiety, depression, stuck-ness, childhood trauma, life transitions, relationship issues and anything else that is making life less enjoyable.


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work through whatever you brings in. I work with clients on issues like anxiety, depression, stuck-ness, childhood trauma, life transitions, relationship issues and anything else that is making life less enjoyable.

Something to know about my approach is:

I offer more than talk therapy. If talking though an issue is what works, great. If not, I use art, visuals, sand-tray, etc. We will explore together what works best for you.

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  • Anxiety
  • Cutting
  • Depression
  • Parenting
  • Relationships
  • Self-Harm
  • Trauma
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