Parent Counselling in Calgary

Parenting is a rewarding yet challenging journey. Our parent counselling services in Calgary are designed to support you in navigating the complexities of raising children, encouraging healthy family dynamics and enhancing your parenting skills.

Understanding Parenting Challenges

Parenting involves a multitude of responsibilities, from nurturing your child’s emotional well-being to managing behavioural issues and balancing family dynamics. How do you feel when your children are angry? How do you react? How about when they are sad? Do you try to help them ‘get over it’?

Challenges such as communication breakdowns, discipline styles/concerns and adapting to your child’s developmental stages can create stress and uncertainty.

Our goal is to help you address these challenges with confidence and empathy, while teaching you a little bit of what to expect and how does your child’s brain and nervous system works.

Our Approach to Parenting Counselling

We offer a supportive environment where you can explore parenting concerns, consider various options, and develop effective strategies tailored to your family’s unique needs.

Our counselling sessions are inspired by the work of John Gottman & Julie Schwartz from the Gottman Institute on Emotion Coaching for parents. On the foundations of Transactional Analysis and Attachment Theory, originally proposed by John Bowlby. It focuses on the following goals

Enhancing Communication

Getting our children to talk to us can be daunting

so during our session(s), we will focus on the specificities of your relationship with your child, the family dynamics and the changes you can implement so that your child feels free and safe to 'let you in'

Attachment Patterns

Secure or Insecure

Through our work we can identify yours and or your child's attachment style and create strategies that will allow you to heal, connect and grow

Boosting Your Child's Emotional Intelligence

Tantrums and blow ups?

We will focus on how you can teach your children to understand their emotions and that of others. We will address strategies for self-regulation, for both you and your child, and how to enhance emotional literacy.

Self-Esteem and Self-Agency

Self-Esteem or Self-Agency or both?

Learn the difference between self esteem and self agency and how they enhance your child's ability to overcome and become more resilient.

Anxiety and Depression

Physical and Emotional Telltales

This is one of the most complex yet common issues our children are struggling with. Let's chat about how you can support your child, when is it time, if any to seek help for them and what is science and research saying about the topic.

Discipline and Connections

Connection before Direction

Let's talk about how to set boundaries with your children. How to problem solve and more importantly, how to create connections before directions.

Felling shame about their parenting skills is one of the most common causes of anxiety and depression for parents

Dayami Fernandes Counselling Therapist

Why Choose our Services?

First of all, we recognize how complex parenting can be. Since every child is unique, just when you feel you’ve found a rhythm, they grow, evolve, meet new influences, or encounter fresh challenges, rendering old strategies ineffective.

Additionally, we understand how easy it is to downplay our own concerns, convincing ourselves that our struggles aren’t “as serious” or “as difficult” as someone else’s. In essence, we often dismiss the weight of our own experiences.

Lastly, we offer flexibility and competitive rates, ensuring that parenting counselling doesn’t have to be a long-term commitment. Whether you’d like to discuss a single issue, seek guidance once, or return a few times, the choice is entirely yours.

Our approach, however, remains knowledgeable, compassionate, and goal-driven. We’re here to empower you with the skills needed to parent with confidence, fostering joy and harmony within your family. Through a collaborative process, we’ll work together to build a nurturing environment, leveraging your strengths while addressing challenges, so you can feel more fulfilled in your parenting journey.

Take the Next Step

If you’re ready to explore how our services can support your parenting journey, we invite you to contact us to schedule a session.

We are committed to supporting parents in Calgary and anywhere else as they navigate the rewarding path of raising healthy, happy children.