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Find Parenting Therapists & Counselors in Iowa City, IA.

 

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 Iowa City, the suburbs of Iowa City, other nearby places such as Waterloo, Rock Island, or anywhere else in Iowa, 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.

Iowa City, IA Parenting Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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Molly Sutton
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Explore aspects of the various systems within which clients exist. I look at family, work, friends, and other relationships to help clients discover where changes might be effective.


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Explore aspects of the various systems within which clients exist. I look at family, work, friends, and other relationships to help clients discover where changes might be effective.

Something to know about my approach is:

I recognize that it takes a great deal of vulnerability and courage to embark on the therapeutic journey. My approach is trauma-informed and incorporates art therapy, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral, solution-focused, and strengths-based.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Communication Skills
  • Depression
  • Financial Stress
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Job Stress
  • Life Transitions
  • Mindfulness
  • Mood Disorders
  • Parenting
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Time Management
  • Trauma
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Together, we'll cultivate your capacity for courage, compassion, and lasting change. You'll walk away with a better understanding of yourself and new tools and strategies for navigating your relationships and stressors with resilience and purpose.


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Together, we'll cultivate your capacity for courage, compassion, and lasting change. You'll walk away with a better understanding of yourself and new tools and strategies for navigating your relationships and stressors with resilience and purpose.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use an eclectic style of theories and modalities to develop client-centered, realistic treatment plans. I never recommend unrealistic or unachievable treatments that don't align with your goals and vision for your ideal future.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Bisexuality
  • Church Abuse
  • Communication Skills
  • Cult Abuse
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Empowering Women
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Family Trauma
  • Family Violence
  • Gender Non-Conforming
  • Gender Transition
  • Gender Transition in Families
  • Gun Violence Survivors
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)
  • Incest
  • Military Life Transition
  • Military Service
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Parent of Sexual Abuse Survivor
  • Polyamory
  • Professional Women
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Relational Trauma
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Trauma
  • Veterans/Military Families
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Violence
  • Women
  • Women’s Health
  • Women Veterans
  • Young Women
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David Foreit
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Together, we will look at the beliefs causing your issues. They may have been appropriate when acquired, often as a child, but maybe not so much today. We have to learn to accept what we can't change and have the courage to change what we can.


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Together, we will look at the beliefs causing your issues. They may have been appropriate when acquired, often as a child, but maybe not so much today. We have to learn to accept what we can't change and have the courage to change what we can.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that our behaviors, how we feel, act, in a given situation, are a result of the beliefs we have about that situation. If you are willing to investigate your beliefs and adjust them to fit today's reality, you will feel and act differently.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Depression
  • Gender Transition
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • LGBTQ+
  • Parenting Skills
  • Persistant Depressive Disorder
  • Social Anxiety
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Catherine Cook
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review your life experiences and explore why you have made some of the choices in your past. We will set goals together and measure outcomes, so you ensure that you are progressing.


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review your life experiences and explore why you have made some of the choices in your past. We will set goals together and measure outcomes, so you ensure that you are progressing.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am very motivational and empathetic.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  • Conduct Disorder
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Personality Disorders
  • Sex Offenders
  • Substance Use Disorders
  • Trauma
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Catherine Cook remote and phone therapy in Iowa, Nebraska
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Natalie Christopherson
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Work towards the goals that you have set whether it is to gain knowledge on a particular thing you are interested in, reduce symptoms, or build a stronger relationship with your partner or child.


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Work towards the goals that you have set whether it is to gain knowledge on a particular thing you are interested in, reduce symptoms, or build a stronger relationship with your partner or child.

Something to know about my approach is:

It is important to me that clients are involved in the treatment planning process. This is your journey and you are the expert on yourself.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Couples
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Grief
  • Parenting
  • Stress-Related Disorders
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Natalie Christopherson remote and phone therapy in Iowa, Nebraska