The qualified therapists at Waterford Counseling Services are dedicated to helping you and your family develop effective tools to resolve your parent/child and co-parenting conflicts. With our years of professional experience, we can help you discover new, creative solutions to the current and ongoing parenting issues that are creating distress within your home. Although you may feel that your family is in crisis, our sessions can help you and your co-parent create a consistent framework for your family and establish household rules that balance discipline and affection. You can’t be your child’s best friend, but you can be a supportive, encouraging parent. Your child may need consistency in order to give up tantrums or rebellious behaviors and embrace cooperation and open communication. With empathy and understanding, we can help you figure out how to establish that consistency.
Our therapists can also help you understand and explore the expectations you may have for your child. Although all parents want their children to succeed, it is important to remember that your child is human, and, like you, is allowed to make mistakes. We can help you develop methods to grant your child choice, empowerment, and ownership while enforcing appropriate discipline.
We can also provide psychological evaluations of your child if there is concern that underlying issues are exacerbating behavioral problems. If we discover that your child has a learning disability, a behavioral disorder, or an addiction to substances or alcohol, we can provide you with support, education and resources so your child gets the help that he or she needs.
You may realize that you need help resolving parenting issues and ending the disharmony in your home. But, you may still have questions or concerns…