Parenting Specialty
Is every day a struggle with your child or teen?
Do you stay awake at night worrying about their mental health?
Many times, you wish you had a magic wand that could erase all the struggles that your children and teen are facing. You want to wake up and have all their fears, negative behaviors, school issues, sleep issues, rebellions, constant arguments, anger, and sadness go away. Parenting a child or adolescent with emotional, behavioral, trauma, and/or learning disabilities is exhausting. You feel that every day is an effort and you are overwhelmed. You battle self-doubt, guilt, and blame, and wonder if it is your fault. You wonder why everything seems so hard for your child or teenager.
Why can’t they just behave? Why does it seem that everything is harder for them? Most of what you try seems to fail or works for a while and then is no longer effective. When you talk to other parents, they do not understand what you are going through, and you worry they are judging you and your child or teen. The constant stress and effort makes you angry and lack patience. You have read books on parenting, watched videos, and been given advice by other parents and none of it is working. You feel like nothing can help and nothing will ever change!
Can you imagine what it would be like to not worry about or fight constantly with your child or adolescent? How much easier would parenting be without the fighting, disrespect, school issues, and managing your child or teenager’s emotions?
Therapy for your child or teen will help to transform that daily struggle. When your child or adolescent achieves success in therapy, develops new coping skills and tools to address their issues, and strategies that lead to success, parenting becomes much easier. Almost 4 million children and teenagers struggle with some form of diagnosed mental health issues. Therapy that meets the specific needs of your child or teen and you the parents has been proven to be effective. Child and Adolescent therapy assists children and adolescents to reach their full potential and improves and repairs damaged relationships in the family due to your child or teen’s struggles.
The good news is you are not alone. You do not have to face the day-in/day-out battle to help your child or teen without support and help.
How can Invictus Counseling help?
I want to begin by staying that my work with parents is a judgement free zone. There is no perfect parent, and we all make mistakes. My focus is not on the mistakes but rather on working together to find more effective parenting strategies to address your child or teen’s needs and issues. You are doing the best that you can, and you are not to blame for your child or adolescent’s struggles. I do not believe that blame has any place in working with you or your child or teenager and that it is in fact an impediment to progress.
My therapeutic philosophy when working with children and teenagers is that parents are an integral part of the process. It is essential for positive outcomes that you are actively involved in your child or teenager’s therapy so you can learn the strategies they are learning, and develop more effective parenting skills based on what we discover is works with your child or adolescent. I will work with you on creating healthy boundaries, learning to use effective consequences and strategies to reduce conflict, and increase positive behaviors.
Another important ingredient in my work with you is repairing your broken relationship with your child or teenager. Having a child or adolescent who is battling mental health, emotional, behavioral, or trauma issues affects the whole family. I work with you and your child or teen to recreate family connections and restore strong family relationships.
Working together, we can assist your child or adolescent to conquer adversity and become Unconquered.