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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 Tacoma, Central, Eastside Enact, Fircrest, or even Newtacoma, 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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Amy Aadland
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In our sessions we'll work collaboratively to identify what is causing you to feel stressed or burned out, develop strategies to get you unstuck, and identify what you want from life.


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In our sessions we'll work collaboratively to identify what is causing you to feel stressed or burned out, develop strategies to get you unstuck, and identify what you want from life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I primarily utilize acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which involves identifying what you want in life and how you want to show up for yourself and others. We work on viewing thoughts and feelings as information rather than as driving forces.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Career Burnout
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Job Stress
  • Parental Burnout
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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  • Work Stress
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... learn how your symptoms function, what really matters to you, and how you can grow to meet the challenges of your life with greater confidence and resilience.


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... learn how your symptoms function, what really matters to you, and how you can grow to meet the challenges of your life with greater confidence and resilience.

Something to know about my approach is:

My counseling approach is flexible, engaging, and mindfulness-based, drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxiety Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Bipolar II
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complicated Grief
  • Depression
  • Driving Anxiety
  • Functional Anxiety
  • Grief
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Health Anxiety
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  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Mild Depression
  • Mindfulness
  • Negative Self-Talk
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Children with Anxiety
  • Parenting Skills
  • Political Anxiety
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Seasonal Depression
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Awareness
  • Self Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Doubt
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Image
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  • Situational Grief
  • Social Anxiety
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Kelsey Lockard
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Gently explore the wounds you have experienced and the ways you have learned to survive; identify patterns and beliefs that may be getting in your way; decrease shame and increase self-compassion; reconnect you to your wholeness and innate wisdom


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Gently explore the wounds you have experienced and the ways you have learned to survive; identify patterns and beliefs that may be getting in your way; decrease shame and increase self-compassion; reconnect you to your wholeness and innate wisdom

Something to know about my approach is:

I use evidence-based practices to help clients unpack the harmful and unhelpful messages they have internalized about themselves from childhood, traumatic experiences, or from just being a human in this world.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Codependency
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Family of Origin
  • Grief
  • Identity
  • Inner Child
  • Life Transitions
  • Mood Disorders
  • Oppression
  • Parenting
  • People Pleasing
  • Perfectionism
  • Personality Disorders
  • Relationships
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Shame
  • Social Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • Women
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Barbara Woodworth
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Are you a "black sheep"- different, neurodivergent, unconventional, an outsider, quirky, on the edge, or a bit rebellious? Or did you follow a direct route in the past, and now find yourself in transition? I am here to guide you on your unique path.


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Are you a "black sheep"- different, neurodivergent, unconventional, an outsider, quirky, on the edge, or a bit rebellious? Or did you follow a direct route in the past, and now find yourself in transition? I am here to guide you on your unique path.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use evidence-based techniques, like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which helps identify and modify unhelpful thought patterns. Other approaches are acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), existential-humanistic therapy, and narrative therapy.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Infertility
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Mood Disorders
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Parenting
  • Postpartum
  • Pregnancy
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Trauma
  • Women
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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...