Coaching for parents and caregivers

Helping to bring joy, peace and balance to parenthood

When you became a parent, you weren't given a “how to” guide for parenting, and research shows that without a “how to” guide, your default blueprint for parenting is often based on the way you were parented. The reality is, your parents weren't given a “how to” guide either, so their blueprint for parenting was based on how your grandparents parented them. The default blueprint is one way that family patterns, and wounds get passed down through generations. 

The good news is that therapy can help you intentionally build a new blueprint for your parenting; allowing you to pass on a new default parenting blueprint to your children. Therapy can help you change the generational wounds, to generational healing. 

As a parent you might find yourself: 

  • ashamed about how hard parenting has been lately. 

  • envious of the parents who seem to balance parenthood with their own personhood. 

  • realizing that parenting is bringing up many of your own childhood emotional wounds, and you are worried that you will reenact it on your own child. 

  • exhausted because it seems like every “parenting hack” isn’t working to reduce your child’s big behaviors. 

  • wanting to be the best parent and person you can be, but not knowing how to balance both. 

At Bud to Bloom Play Therapy we help by:

coaching parents about how to understand their child’s behavior and how to respond to it

healing past trauma to allow them to show up as their best self 

offering parents on new strategies to connect with their child

challenging their beliefs about what being a “good” parent means

uncovering each parent’s strengths so they can use them when facing new challenges

developing and practicing new communication skills to express their needs, emotions, and concerns

You might find yourself afraid to start therapy because you are worried that you will be judged for being a “bad” parent.

You should know, there is no universal definition of a “good” or “bad” parent; and your therapist isn’t interested in defining it. Instead, therapy is a space where you get support in learning what parenting means to you, and how you want it to look.