Parent Coaching & Educational Consulting in Columbia, Maryland
Parenting is not always a walk in the park. Although there are many rewarding parts of the job, there are also certain points that are incredibly difficult to manage. From infancy to adolescence, each stage of development brings new challenges in parenting to include tantrums, defiance, resistance to direction following, lack of motivation, poor decision making, etc. In addition to typical developmental concerns, educational and mental health factors can also surface which requires additional parenting support and understanding. As such, how can parents manage these challenges while continuing to take care of their own needs? A therapist can help with the navigation of these challenges while providing support through parent coaching and educational consulting.
What Is Effective Parenting?
The components of effective parenting include nurturing, attachment, acceptance, cohesion, consistency, and love. Specifically, parental behaviors toward the child, such as praising, encouraging, and giving physical affection allow children to feel accepted and loved. In addition, parents need to have appropriate boundaries and expectations in place in an effort to teach their child responsibility and accountability.
There are 4 main types of parenting: permissive, neglectful, authoritative, and authoritarian. Authoritative is the perfect balance of instilling independence and holding boundaries while showing unconditional love.
How Can Parent Coaching Help You Be An Effective Parent?
In order to provide your child with the above key parenting factors, our caring therapists will provide you with the following:
- Compassion, understanding, and validation of the challenges you are facing
- Guidance to improve communication skills with family members under difficult and peaceful circumstances
- Tools for managing negative behavior
- Support in understanding and creating healthy expectations and boundaries
- Eliminating power struggles
- Learning to address challenging situations that minimizes conflict
- Teaching the authoritative parenting style
- Parental self-care
- Navigation of and counseling for mental health concerns (ADHD, anxiety, depression, etc.)
What is Educational Consulting
As a parent, it is very difficult to watch your child struggle in school without the appropriate support. Educational Consultation at Crystal Waters Counseling Centers provides you with a space to discuss your concerns regarding your child’s educational needs. Whether your child has dyslexia, ADHD, anxiety, depression (or any other such disabilities), we can assist you in identifying ways to move forward in advocating for your child’s needs. Educational Consulting is not offered as an independent service. Rather if your child is seen for counseling services, we also provide advocacy to further support you and your child.
Our advocacy services can include:
- Attendance at a school-based IEP or 504 meetings
- Reviewing previous documentation
- Assisting with mediation and referrals to legal consultants
- Conducting classroom observations
- Identifying a child’s educational, social and academic needs
- Working as a liaison between a child, parents, and educators
- Educating parents on their rights in the school system
Additional Resources
For more information on specific topics regarding parent coaching and educational consulting, click on the following links:
Parenting School Aged Children
How To Talk To Your Teen
Healthy Boundary Setting For Mothers
Tips To Manage Your Child’s Anxiety
Receive Parent Coaching and Educational Consulting in the Washington D.C. & Baltimore Areas
At Crystal Waters Counseling Centers, we will provide you with a safe space to discuss concerns and provide you with parent coaching or educational consulting as needed. Our Baltimore therapists will help you become an effective parent and assist you in navigating your child’s educational needs. In order to get started follow these simple steps:
- Reach out to speak with a mental health professional
- Schedule your first appointment for parent coaching or educational consulting
- Get support as a parent
Other Therapy Services Offered in Baltimore & Washington D.C
We offer a person-centered holistic approach to meeting your counseling needs at our Columbia, MD-based therapy practice. Our understanding therapists provide counseling for children, teens, college students, and adults. Additional therapeutic services offered include anxiety, depression, life transitions, and EMDR therapy. Contact us today to get started!