Parenting Therapy
You’re not meant to navigate parenthood alone.
At ECC, our therapists can offer mental health support as you navigate the ups, downs,
and unexpected turns of raising tiny humans.
Mental Health Challenges of Parenthood
Parenthood can be an emotional rollercoaster of joy and exhaustion. In our modern western culture, parents are under more pressure than ever to be present with their children with less support. If navigating parenthood has been more stressful and isolating than you expected, you’re not alone.
Some of the most common challenges that parents seek counseling for can include:
Childhood baggage or trauma
Perinatal or postpartum depression and anxiety
Lack of family or community support
Difficult parent-child interactions
Lack of sleep
Changing relationship to one’s body
Intimacy challenges with partner
Financial challenges
Pressure to manage schedules
Lack of personal time to recharge
Career challenges
How Therapy Can Help You Navigate Parenthood
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by parenthood, or you’re struggling as a family to work together, parenting therapy can give you the support you need.
At ECC, we work with individual adults, couples, and families to:
Find validation and perspective
Express your thoughts, feelings, and concerns or fears in healthy ways
Learn to recognize triggers
Learn healthy coping strategies
Recognize patterns of behavior and family cycles that you want to change
Form healthy attachments between parent-and-child or partner-to-partner
Our therapists may use one or a combination of therapy modalities to help you navigate parenting:
Attachment-based therapy is a trauma-informed and process-oriented therapeutic method that helps clients identify attachment styles and wounds, and repair relationships. For parents, attachment-based therapy can be used to examine their relationships with their parents and early caregivers to understand how those early experiences are influencing their parenting. Attachment-based therapy can also be used to repair relationships between parent and child.
Integrative systems therapy is a problem-centered approach to family therapy that uses strategies from various theoretical models. Using IST, therapists continually assess the full complement of factors—psychological, biological, interactional, and cultural—that impact clients and their concerns.
Family of origin therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on exploring and understanding the dynamics, experiences, and relationships within a person's family of origin, with the goal of identifying how those early patterns might be impacting their current life and relationships, as well as their present behaviors and perspectives.
Find a Parenting Therapist Near You
With support from a therapist, you can build the communication and self-care skills to be the kind of parent you always hoped you would be.
At ECC, we support individuals, couples, and families of all identities and backgrounds—married, single, or divorced, blended families, LGBTQIA+, diverse ethnicities, families navigating immigration, and more.
We’re committed to helping you find the therapist and therapy approach to help you thrive. When you fill out our intake form, our intake team will review it and contact you to make an appointment.
