Parenting Consultation

Parenting your child/adolescent can be a fulfilling and joyful experience. However, there are undeniable challenges that accompany parenting. Parenting experiences are unique due to children’s different personalities and temperaments. When it is a great match, the result is less stressful interactions with the child. Conversely, a “not so good” match often results in a very stressful experience for both the child and parent.

Parenting your child or adolescent can be frustrating, stressful, and sometimes even confusing. This can give rise to disruptions in your family's daily functioning resulting in mental health issues. You may have applied your best knowledge and utilized your skills but to no avail.

There are many reasons why parenting consult can be beneficial for you. These may include seeking strategies, support, guidance, insight, in providing the best for your child/adolescent. These consults equip caregivers/parents with the necessary skills in addressing behavioural challenges thereby supporting your child’s development and mental wellness. In these consults, parents will receive practical information, parenting strategies, and learn new practice skills.

Parenting consultation begins with Dr. Olive Okraku getting to understand the unique needs of your child/adolescent. Furthermore, to gain in-depth knowledge of your family situation or circumstances enabling her to create a unique plan for your family. This also gives the parent the opportunity to discuss the unique needs of their child.

During this consult, we will explore your child’s social and emotional issues, activities, relationships, interests, family supports, challenges, coping, and resilient resources. We will also explore issues around routine and daily activities including other members of the family.  Additionally, it’s an opportunity to explore supports for parents/caregivers, their coping styles, resourcing, and parenting approach. We then explore areas that the parent needs support with and then develop personalized plans to implement strategies and promote healing and growth.

Parenting consults are most successful and a great alternative when circumstances prevent families from having therapy. These consults may consist of 2 sessions or more.

Parenting consultation will help you to:

• Enhance, identify, learn or understand how to be in your child’s corner “cheerleader”
• Address anxiety, emotional and behavioural issues
• Understand and provide concrete tools to solve problems
• Create or modify routines
• Provide the right supports for your child
• Generate ideas about introducing new activities
• Adapt to a child’s personality as well as different age groups
• Understand change in behaviours and know that some children may be going through changes and become more disruptive, withdrawn or aggressive than usual. They may not have the language to express their needs but only through their behaviour
• Generate ideas that adults can use to better manage their own stressors to foster healthier relationships with their children.

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