Parenting Counselling

Helping parents and carers develop confidence in their abilities and to feel more connected to their children.

Are you at your wits’ end parenting your child?

If you’re a parent or carer worried about your child’s behaviour, “parenting counselling” can help

So what is “Parenting Counselling”?

 
 

Based on the theories of Therapeutic Parenting and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, parenting counselling supports the parents and carers to meet their children’s individual needs.

We do this by looking at how you’re making sense of their behaviours and needs and how your own experiences of being parented are influencing where you’re all at. Then we develop these areas so you feel more confident and connected with your children; you’re understanding yourself and them more and you’re parenting how you always wanted.

“Therapeutic parenting enables children to self regulate and develop an understanding of their behaviours and ultimately form secure attachments which will, ultimately, minimise the impact of childhood trauma”

Dr Dan Hughes

How Can You Work With Me?

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Working together we can:

  • Develop your knowledge and understanding of your child’s emotional and biological development & needs

  • Address the challenges you have with parenting the way you want, to improve your relationship with your children through an understanding of attachment & your own experiences of being a child

  • Develop your understanding of mental health, self-esteem and emotional literacy

  • Increase your confidence in supporting your children

  • Develop resources tailored to yours & your children's needs

  • Reduce the need for external services

I work with you to give you validation, reassurance, extra tools and skills to implement positive changes to your child’s environment.

By addressing your own belief system and expectations (or, in other words, the “script” that you bring from your own childhood and life experiences), I help you change you child’s behaviours.

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I provide parents & carers with a safe space to develop their knowledge and understanding around the challenges they face raising their children.

Seeing parents & carers grow in confidence and ability to support their children’s emotional, psychological and developmental needs, therefore enhancing their mental health and relationship is at the heart of my work in parenting counselling.

Where a child is neurodivergent and/or has experienced trauma and difficulties with attachment, often ‘general’ parenting methods do not work and can actually exasperate the challenging behaviours parents and carers are trying to understand and manage.

Parenting counselling is not just for parents of children who have experienced trauma though. With increased understanding and awareness of mental health and challenges around self-esteem and neurodivergent struggles for example, parents are realising they need to know more. I’m in a perfect position to help you with this through my professional knowledge, training and experience.

At times, the challenges parents & carers face are underpinned by difficult experiences of their own childhood, my training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, trauma and neurodivergent practice allows me to provide you with the therapeutic knowledge and holding to facilitate your awareness and help you move forward.

“Transactional analysis is a talking therapy designed to explore an individual's personality and how this has been shaped by experience”

How much does it cost?

Online or in person at my practice in Hull

  • Individual - 50 mins @ £80

Discounted Offer

6 x 50 mins @ £432 (usually £480) - Saving 10% if the package is paid in full

(Only valid for the first 6 sessions when booked as a block)

Payment & Cancellation

  • I accept bank transfer payments for initial consultations, consultancy, training and package payments.

  • All individual sessions (except initial consultations) are paid after each session via cash or cheque (unless agreed otherwise).

  • I operate a 48 hour cancellation policy, a full session fee is required within this time.