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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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Together we will make art, explore your identity, and learn how your relationships and experiences have shaped you.


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Together we will make art, explore your identity, and learn how your relationships and experiences have shaped you.

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Art therapy can be a great tool in healing and re-writing your story. With art therapy, you don’t have to verbalize all your deepest traumas—symbols and images can often assist you in getting your message across.

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  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attachment Styles
  • Biracial Women
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  • Life Transitions
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  • Postpartum Anxiety
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Christyn Modica
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Reduce stress, improve relationships, and break away from survival strategies that interfere with quality of life. The therapeutic process will include understanding biological functions of anxiety and depression with focus on relationships.


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Reduce stress, improve relationships, and break away from survival strategies that interfere with quality of life. The therapeutic process will include understanding biological functions of anxiety and depression with focus on relationships.

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My goals are to aid in experiencing the world in a new way by addressing deeply rooted emotional pain. Healing comes from the process of gaining awareness and breaking away from survival strategies that disrupt relationships and quality of life.

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  • Acute Grief
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
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  • Nervous System Regulation
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  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychosomatic Issues
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  • Relationship Conflict
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Miranda Santisteban
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I work collaboratively with my clients to create goals for our time together. Common concerns include anxiety, depression, overwhelm, family conflict, child behavior, parenting, school avoidance, confidence building, and processing traumatic events.


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I work collaboratively with my clients to create goals for our time together. Common concerns include anxiety, depression, overwhelm, family conflict, child behavior, parenting, school avoidance, confidence building, and processing traumatic events.

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I work from a holistic and person-centered lens. I consider ways in which our experiences are shaped by the world around us and I value nurturing connection and self-awareness, empowering clients to feel in control of their emotions and behaviors.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Child Behavior Issues
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Teenagers
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Harpreet Nagra, PhD
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uncover what mindset tools may work best for you, identify how to set up interpersonal boundaries, and help you build meaningful practices of self-compassion and positive self-regard.


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uncover what mindset tools may work best for you, identify how to set up interpersonal boundaries, and help you build meaningful practices of self-compassion and positive self-regard.

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I'm collaborative, supportive, and focused on empowering you to make the best decisions for you. My goals are to understand you where you are, help you uncover where to go next, and to reconnect you or help you find your community.

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  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adult ADHD
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Diabetes
  • Fertility Challenges
  • Grief
  • Life Transitions
  • New Parent
  • Parenting
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss
  • Trauma
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Lorrie Frost
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Explore your most important values and how to achieve them. As our lives shift, sometimes we want to make changes, but are unsure where to start. Together we will address thoughts and behaviors that have put up roadblocks in your life.


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Together, we will:

Explore your most important values and how to achieve them. As our lives shift, sometimes we want to make changes, but are unsure where to start. Together we will address thoughts and behaviors that have put up roadblocks in your life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am here to support you and your needs. Together we will work to identify where you are struggling in finding the fulfilling life you want to live, and develop a new plan that fills you with confidence to take the next steps.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depression
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting
  • Relationships
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Lorrie Frost remote and phone therapy in California, Washington