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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
  • Christian Women
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Faith and Spirituality
  • Faith/Religious Deconstruction
  • Life Transitions
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Perfectionism
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Professional Women
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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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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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  • Anticipatory Grief
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  • Attachment Disorders
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  • Bisexuality
  • Children of Parents With Substance Use Disorders
  • Chronic Stress
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complicated Grief
  • Consensual Non-Monogamy
  • Depression
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Empowering Women
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Family Conflict
  • Family Dynamics
  • Family of Origin
  • Family Trauma
  • Feeling Lost
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  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Nervous System Regulation
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Polyamory
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychosomatic Issues
  • Relational Trauma
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Skills
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Actualization
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We will talk about the major pivot points in your life (including the one bringing you to therapy) and how these experiences have shaped your story, added branches to your life. We'll discuss your relationships, your hopes, and your fears.


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We will talk about the major pivot points in your life (including the one bringing you to therapy) and how these experiences have shaped your story, added branches to your life. We'll discuss your relationships, your hopes, and your fears.

Something to know about my approach is:

I put you in the driver's seat, rather your goals and values are forefront in our work together. I guide you on how to trust yourself and set your own path so you feel empowered and aligned inside and outside of therapy sessions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Career Burnout
  • Motherhood
  • Parenting
  • Professional Women
  • Relationship Distress
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Esteem
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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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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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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.

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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depression
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting
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Empower your intimate relationships to connection and passion. With my expert guidance, you can learn to be fully present and alive in your body and your life.


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Empower your intimate relationships to connection and passion. With my expert guidance, you can learn to be fully present and alive in your body and your life.

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I believe in your ability to change, grow, and expand to your truest and most authentic self. You are safe here. I work from attachment theory, showing a respect for your history and a hope in your future. The world is better because you're in it.

FOCUS AREAS:
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  • Anxiety Disorders
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  • Faith/Religious Deconstruction
  • Grief
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  • Parenting Skills
  • Purity Culture Recovery
  • Religious Trauma
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