Parenting with Purpose: Therapy for Individuals and Couples Navigating Parenting Challenges
Parenting is Hard—Especially When Your Child is Struggling
Parenting is one of the most important—and emotionally demanding—roles you’ll ever take on. It’s not just sleepless nights and school pickups; it’s navigating meltdowns, advocating for your child’s needs, handling constant decisions, and managing your own mental health while doing it all. When your child is dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, behavioral issues, or self-harm, the emotional toll can feel unbearable. You may feel helpless, overwhelmed, or disconnected—from your child, your partner, or even yourself.
Maybe you and your partner are clashing over how to discipline your child. Maybe one of you is the “soft one” and the other is always “the heavy.” Maybe you’re a single parent trying to hold it together, or a co-parent navigating different households and parenting philosophies. These are not small issues. They can take a toll on your mental health, your relationship, and your child’s sense of safety and stability.
Therapy can help. Whether you’re seeking individual therapy to better manage parenting stress or couples therapy to repair your connection and find common ground, this is a space for honest conversations, skill-building, and healing.
Therapy for Parenting Challenges: What I Help With
Parenting Style Conflicts in Couples
Are you constantly fighting about how to discipline, set limits, or communicate with your kids? Whether you’re dealing with differing values, cultural expectations, or personal upbringings, I help couples understand where their parenting styles come from—and how to find alignment that honors both partners and meets the needs of your children.
Feeling Unsupported in Parenting
Do you feel like you’re carrying the weight of parenting alone? Maybe you’re the default parent, or maybe your partner shuts down during tough moments. Therapy can create space to express frustration, set boundaries, and rebuild trust and emotional partnership around parenting roles.
Parenting Teens with Mental Health Struggles
If your teen is dealing with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, or behavioral challenges, you may feel like you’re constantly walking on eggshells. I support parents in navigating this emotional terrain, making space for your own grief, fear, and burnout while giving you the tools to parent with clarity and compassion.
Managing Parenting Burnout and Resentment
When you’re constantly meeting everyone else’s needs, yours can fall to the bottom of the list. Burnout, guilt, and resentment can build up over time—especially if there’s no time for rest, fun, or connection. We’ll work on strategies to help you recharge, ask for help, and parent from a more grounded place.
Blended Family & Co-Parenting Therapy
Whether you’re part of a blended family or co-parenting after divorce, navigating different family systems can be emotionally complex. Therapy can help you and your partner (or ex-partner) clarify expectations, improve communication, and prioritize the well-being of your children while reducing conflict.
Balancing Intimacy and Parenting
Parenting can leave little room for intimacy, and over time, partners can start to feel more like roommates than lovers. With my background in sex therapy, I help couples reconnect emotionally and physically—even during the chaos of raising kids.
Why Work With Me as Your Parenting Therapist?
I bring a rare combination of clinical expertise and lived experience. I’m not only a licensed therapist (LCSW-S) and certified sex therapist—I’m also an experienced parent and former child and teen mental health specialist. For over a decade, I worked with youth facing severe emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric challenges, and supported families in crisis every day.
I understand what it’s like to feel terrified for your child’s safety, confused about how to respond to extreme behaviors, and at odds with your partner about what “the right thing” even is. I specialize in helping individuals and couples get on the same page—not just about parenting, but about communication, boundaries, values, and emotional support.
This isn’t about being perfect parents. It’s about becoming a more connected, intentional team.
Ready to Parent With More Purpose and Less Pain?
If you are looking for therapy for parenting issues near Prosper, TX, or anywhere in Texas or Washington state, I’d love to work with you.
You don’t have to navigate parenting stress, mental health crises, or relationship breakdowns alone. Therapy can help you feel more empowered, supported, and aligned—both as a parent and as a partner.
Let’s talk. Reach out today to schedule a free 15-minute consultation or book your first session. You deserve support, and your family deserves healing.