Parenting Consult

Parental involvement is crucial in improving therapy outcomes for a child. A parent’s active role helps to reinforce and normalize gains, identify gaps in current parental approach, and supports effective and engaged attachment with your child.

What is a Parenting Consult?

  • A specialized form of therapy designed to support and enhance parenting skills.

  • Evidence-based techniques to help parents manage challenges and improve family dynamics.

  • May include a one-time consult, individual sessions, family meetings, or sessions that occur alongside your child’s individual therapy.

What to Expect

  • Collaborative Environment: supportive space where your concerns and goals are heard.

  • Identifying Challenges: address specific issues such as discipline, developmental concerns, or family dynamics.

  • Explore Underlying Issues: discuss stress, past experiences, or relationship dynamics impacting parenting.

  • Psychoeducation: providing parents with knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting strategies, and psychological concepts to enhance parenting skills and improve family dynamics.

  • Sessions are typically 50 minutes in length (this allows for 10 minutes at the end of the hour for therapists to write their notes and plan for your next session).

  • Equip parents with strategies to manage behaviour and emotional needs of child.

  • Improved validation and active listening skills.

  • Building consistency in your home rhythms, including ways to positively reinforce behaviours.

  • Support parental well-being: helping parents manage their own stress and mental health.

  • Align both parenting approaches to ensure that parents are a team and on the same page.

Goals of Therapy

Common Issues Addressed in a Parenting Consult

  • Behaviour Management

  • Communication Skills

  • Validation Techniques

  • Emotional Support

  • Parenting Styles

  • Limit Setting

  • Technology Addictions

  • Attachment

  • Educational Support

  • Self-care for Parents