Being responsible for children comes with a great deal of pressure and countless challenges. Parents who are struggling may seek counseling to help them work through their issues.
Available Treatment Options
Therapy serves as a safe space for parents to open up about their concerns regarding their parenting skills and their children. A counselor may address unhelpful thoughts with parents and work on cognitive techniques that expand how the parent thinks about themselves.
If specific behavioral issues leave parents concerned about their child, a therapist or counseling professional specializing in children may teach the parents disciplinary skills and communication techniques or suggest activities that the family can engage in.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Parenting
My focus and passion is sexual health and I work with people of all ages. Sexuality is an important source of identity, connection and pleasure, but I also recognize the ways in which shame, trauma, and limited/unhelpful learning about sex contributes to a lot of common sexual problems and conflict in relationships. I support clients with a variety of goals including improving your sex life,...
It is common for people to need support during major life changes. I offer an empathetic and nonjudgmental context to process and make meaning of these life transitions. I am drawn towards treatment modalities that are collaborative, person-centered, and non-shaming. I use an attachment-based lens to work with new parents, couples, and grief/bereavement. I draw from Motivational Interviewing to...
As a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of work experience, I provide clients with a safe and supportive spaces to explore issues that are impacting them and their relationships with others. I work with my clients to increase their level of self-awareness and insight, in an effort to assist clients in having a better understanding of their feelings, cope more effectively, improv...
An ideal client is one who wants to find solutions to their challenges. An individual who wants to be educated and guided to more positive outcomes and results and who thinks they are stuck. Adults who are on their journey through life stages of young adult, marriages, middle age or senior experiences. Anxiety and depression is often a learned experience that over time can become chronic and ca...
The core of my practice revolves around the reality that starting, growing and managing a family can present a multitude of challenges, and that therapy can help both individuals and families develop strategies to not only cope with difficulties, but also learn to thrive. Across the life span, my expertise with issues such as attachment, depression, anxiety, trauma, and interpersonal relationsh...
Is your child struggling emotionally or academically with school? Appear angry, dysregulated and overwhelmed at home? Do they get weepy or irritable on Sunday nights or after a school break? Are they struggling with peer relationships? If so, my approach with children is relational, empathic, and nurturing while empowering them with coping skills and social skills that will aim to reduce the wo...
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with experience working within various environments to include, private practice, teen residential, Intensive In-home, community agency, and within the prison system. I am knowledgeable in working with trauma, abuse, depression, anxiety, parenting/family problems, and life-adjustment issues. I provide services to adolescents, and adults, offering individua...
Finding the right therapist for yourself or your child can often times be daunting. My goal as an experienced Licensed Professional Counselor is to provide you with a safe and trusting environment where you can express yourself authentically and grow. I believe that everyone is capable of change, which is why I am passionate about helping and empowering children, adolescents, and adults. Togeth...
Life can feel overwhelming at times especially during the current pandemic. You might be experiencing a crisis, having relationship issues with your family, your partner, and or friend. You might have experienced some trauma from the past or recently and it's affecting your well-being at this moment. If you do not feel like you can be yourself, it's time to reach out for help. You might need so...
As a counselor specializing in sex therapy, my intention is to be purposeful and down to earth in serving clients through a sex positive lens. Every person brings individual qualities, history and stories to therapy. For this reason, it is essential to form the therapeutic relationship by embracing those qualities in order to understand one’s unique worldviews, beliefs and values on the path to...
Do you struggle with unstable relationships? Fear being alone? Think of yourself as not good enough or unworthy? Engage in self-destructive behavior? Think about or engage in self harm or have thoughts of suicide? Do you want to learn tools to better cope with these issues interfering in your day to day happiness? I can help you. I can teach you skills to cope with uncomfortable feelings, gain...
After years of seeing individuals not feeling better, not meeting goals, and becoming frustrated with their treatment, I pursued training in functional medicine to help patients take control of their mental health through changes in diet, lifestyle, self-care, and stress management. I believe that mental health concerns are best addressed looking at the whole person, environment, and systemic...
Tonya Chatlos is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor (LPCC-S) who has over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals, children, families, and groups. She has worked in a variety of settings, including community mental health facilities, hospitals, adoption agencies, schools, and private practices. Tonya believes in establishing a therapeutic relationship and...
