Parent Support in St. Louis

As a parent, you do whatever you can to be the best parent for your child. But sometimes being a parent can be hard and confusing. This is where parent coaching in St. Louis can give you the support and space you need to increase your parenting skills.

What is parent coaching in St. Louis?

Parent coaching is an opportunity to sit down with a specially trained professional to help you work towards becoming the parent you want to be. You are probably already doing a lot of things that are working, but there are probably also some things that aren’t going as smoothly as you would like. That’s normal! 

The good news is that you don’t have to figure it out alone. At Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, our highly trained parent coaches want to help you celebrate what is going well and adjust what could go better. Our parent coaches know that your situation is unique and your parent coaching needs to be too.

What you can expect from parent coaching in St. Louis

When you work with a parent coach, you can expect to learn more about yourself as a parent, helpful parenting skills and how to take action towards being the kind of parent you envision for yourself and your child. 

You can expect to have a non-judgmental and supportive space to process your own worries or concerns about being a parent and learn what you need as a parent in St. Louis. You will build skills to identify how you are processing situations with your child and then how to problem solve.

You can expect that you will learn different skills and problem-solving techniques that you can take home and implement. Parent coaches can help you figure out how to develop a plan and then stick to it!

Engaging with parent coaching is a brave step towards giving yourself and your child the home and relationship that is important to you.

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What happens in a parent coaching session in St. Louis?

When you start a parent coaching session at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, you will always begin by updating the Outcomes Rating Scale and you will always end by updating the Session Rating Scale. These scales help our parent coaches track progress and make sure that you are feeling understood so that we can ensure that your parent coaching sessions are helpful to you and moving you closer to your goals. 

In session, you will work with one of our expert parent coaches to identify what is important for you to work on. Then, you will have opportunities to talk about situations that come up at home. You will build skills to identify how you are thinking about, feeling and responding to situations. You and your parent coach will identify different skills, techniques and problem solving strategies to use in the situations that you are struggling with.

What if I want my child to have support too?

Compassionate Counseling St. Louis offers both parent coaching and individual counseling for kids and teens. At Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, we know that parenting can be a tough job and so can being a kid! At every stage in life there is a lot for us to learn. 

Our therapists tailor parent coaching to you and your needs and they will do the same thing for your child. The therapists at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis have a lot of experience working with kids and teens to help them understand themselves and learn to manage their own anxiety and frustrations. 

Supporting your child can look like parent coaching, individual child counseling or both! Set up a call today to discuss what fits your family's needs best

Curious to hear more, or are you a little reluctant about counseling? Compassionate Counseling St. Louis provides specialized anger management and anxiety therapy in St. Louis for kids, teens, and college students. We work in Clayton, MO and serve kids, teens, and college students throughout St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Ladue, University City, Town and Country, Webster Groves, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood, Richmond Heights, and Brentwood. You can set up your free phone screening to see if we’re a good fit for your needs right on our website.