Parenting

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Parenting Counseling

Parenting counseling offers numerous benefits to individuals and families, helping them navigate the challenges and complexities of raising children.

Here are some key benefits of parenting counseling:

  1. Improved Parent-Child Relationship: Parenting counseling helps parents better understand their child's needs, emotions, and developmental stages. It provides strategies and techniques to strengthen the parent-child bond, enhance communication, and promote positive interactions. This leads to a more secure and nurturing relationship between parents and children.
  2. Enhanced Parenting Skills: Parenting counseling equips parents with practical skills and knowledge to effectively manage challenging behaviors, set appropriate boundaries, and establish consistent discipline techniques. It helps parents develop a range of parenting styles and strategies tailored to their child's temperament and unique needs, promoting healthy child development.
  3. Stress Reduction: Raising children can be demanding and stressful at times. Parenting counseling offers a supportive and non-judgmental environment where parents can express their concerns, frustrations, and anxieties. Through counseling, parents can learn coping mechanisms, stress management techniques, and self-care strategies, promoting their well-being and reducing overall stress levels.
  4. Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution: Parenting counseling allows parents to address conflicts, disagreements, and challenges within the family. It offers a neutral perspective and guidance to help parents find constructive and collaborative solutions. Developing practical problem-solving skills enhances family dynamics and promotes a harmonious environment.
  5. Developmental Guidance: Each child goes through various developmental stages, and parenting counseling offers valuable guidance and insights. Counselors can provide information on age-appropriate milestones, behaviors, and challenges, helping parents understand and support their child's growth and development more effectively.
  6. Parental Self-Reflection and Growth: Parenting counseling encourages parents to reflect on their upbringing, beliefs, and values. It helps them identify any patterns or behaviors influencing their parenting style. Through self-reflection and personal growth, parents can develop a deeper awareness of their strengths and areas for improvement, leading to more conscious and intentional parenting.
  7. Support for Special Needs or Unique Circumstances: Parenting counseling can particularly benefit parents of children with special needs or unique circumstances. Counselors with expertise in these areas can provide specialized guidance, resources, and emotional support. They can help parents navigate the challenges and advocate for their child's needs effectively.
  8. Family System Improvement: Parenting counseling recognizes that the family system impacts child development. By addressing family dynamics, communication patterns, and relationships, counseling can improve family functioning. It fosters a healthier and more cohesive family unit, positively influencing the well-being of all family members.

Remember, the specific benefits of parenting counseling may vary depending on individual circumstances, and the goals set by the parents. 

 

 

Co-Parenting Therapy

Co-parenting focuses on helping separated or divorced parents navigate the challenges of raising children together. It aims to improve communication, cooperation, and collaboration between co-parents. 

Here are some key benefits of co-parenting counseling:

  1. Improved Communication: Co-parenting counseling provides a structured and neutral environment for parents to enhance their communication skills. It helps parents learn practical strategies to express their thoughts, concerns, and needs respectfully and constructively. Improved communication minimizes misunderstandings, conflicts, and potential negative impacts on children.
  2. Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving: Co-parenting counseling addresses conflicts and challenges between co-parents. It helps parents develop conflict-resolution skills and problem-solving strategies to handle disagreements or differences constructively. Learning to find common ground and compromise contributes to more effective and peaceful co-parenting.
  3. Emotional Support and Coping Strategies: Co-parenting can be emotionally challenging, especially after a separation or divorce. Co-parenting counseling provides emotional support to parents as they navigate the emotional complexities of their new parenting dynamic. Counselors can also help parents develop coping strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and other emotions associated with co-parenting.
  4. Focus on the Child's Best Interests: Co-parenting counseling prioritizes the well-being of the child. Counselors help parents shift their focus from their conflicts to the needs of their children. By fostering a child-centered approach, counseling encourages parents to make decisions that promote the child's emotional, physical, and developmental needs.
  5. Parenting Consistency and Stability: Co-parenting counseling promotes consistency and stability in parenting practices between both households. It helps parents establish similar rules, boundaries, and expectations for their children, reducing confusion and providing a sense of security for the children. Consistency across co-parenting environments contributes to better adjustment and overall well-being for the children.
  6. Co-Parenting Skills Development: Co-parenting counseling equips parents with specific skills and tools to navigate co-parenting challenges successfully. It may include strategies for effective communication, managing conflicts, supporting the child's emotional needs, and fostering a healthy co-parenting relationship. Developing these skills enhances the parents' ability to work together.

It's important to note that the success of co-parenting counseling depends on the willingness and commitment of both parents to participate and engage in the process actively. 

 

Liliana can guide parents through these challenges and help them build a healthy co-parenting relationship for the benefit of their children. To make an appoinment, call 720-272-5564 or email at healingrelationships@lilianabaylon.com

 

 

HRCS Policy regarding Co-Parenting:

When working with parents who are divorced or in the process of separation/divorce, I DO NOT and will NOT take on a second role, such as the court evaluator, individual parent therapist, mediator, or expert witness for one parent. If you are involved in divorce or custody litigation, my role as a therapist is not to make recommendations to the court concerning custody or parenting issues as I'm not a CFI (Child & Family Investigator) or PRE (Parental Responsibilities Evaluator).

Crianza de los hijos

El asesoramiento para padres es un tipo de servicio que tiene como objetivo proporcionar las herramientas e información necesarias para apoyar a los padres sin sesgo o juicio.

 

La crianza puede ser satisfactoria. Pero también puede ser difícil y lento. Las responsabilidades que los padres enfrentan hoy en día son enormes: atender las necesidades diarias del niño y desarrollar habilidades para la vida: habilidades de vida diaria, habilidades sociales y comportamientos apropiados. Los padres con más de un hijo también deben dar cuenta de las personalidades de cada uno. Todo esto mientras proporciona un hogar, comida, educación y atención médica.

 

Estos son algunos de los problemas más comunes que los padres enfrentan a diario:

  • Comportamiento infantil 
  • Agresión 
  • Tensión de la familia (debido a la rivalidad entre hermanos, pérdida de empleo, muerte, dificultades financieras, problemas de salud)
  • Confianza o autoestima 
  • Salud mental (por ejemplo, depresión, ansiedad, dolor) 
  • Separación o divorcio (por ejemplo, dolor, ajustes)
  • Problemas escolares (por ejemplo, acoso escolar, amistad)

 

Terapia de Crianza Compartida

La separación/divorcio nunca es fácil, especialmente cuando los niños están involucrados. El divorcio es doloroso, y la crianza compartida puede llegar a ser difícil de manejar entre dos personas que luchan con la pena y los sentimientos heridos debido al divorcio. La terapia de crianza compartida NO es MEDIACIÓN, ACUERDO DE PADRES, o EVALUACIONES para procedimientos de divorcio. La consejería de La terapia de crianza compartida es para ayudar a los padres a encontrar la mejor manera de trabajar juntos para criar niños en diferentes hogares. Mantener los asuntos personales separados de la terapia de crianza compartida puede ser difícil y es donde la terapia de crianza compartida puede ser beneficiosa

 

La terapia de crianza compartida puede incluir:

  • Padres que buscan fortalecer su relación de crianza compartida. 
  • Padres que quieren centrarse en las necesidades de sus hijos, en lugar de en cuestiones personales entre los padres. 
  • Padres que desean establecer una alianza de crianza para sus hijos después de que la relación entre los padres haya terminado.

 

Política de HRCS con respecto a la Terapia de Crianza Compartida: 
Al trabajar con padres divorciados o en proceso de separación / divorcio, Como terapeuta No hare asesoramientos/recomendaciones, NO asumiré un segundo papel, como el evaluador de la corte, el terapeuta individual de padres, el mediador, o el testigo experto de uno de los padres. Si está involucrado en un litigio de divorcio o custodia, mi papel como terapeuta no es hacer recomendaciones a la corte con respecto a la custodia o los problemas de crianza, ya que no soy un CFI (Investigador de Niños y Familias) o PRE (Evaluator de Resonsabilidades de los Padres). 

Liliana Baylon,

LMFT-S, RPT-S

  • Bilingual & Bicultural (Spanish/English)
  • TEDx Speaker
  • AAMFT Approved Supervisor
  • EMDRIA Approved Consultant
  • Registered Play Therapist Supervisor
  • Synergetic Play Therapist Consultant
  • ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist & Supervisor

 

Healing Relationships Counseling Services, PLLC

C: 720 272-5564

healingrelationships@lilianabaylon.com

950 Wadsworth Blvd. #314

Lakewood CO 80214

 

Hours: 10am - 6pm

Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursdays

 

Note:

Currently no sessions available after 3pm.

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Actualmente no hay sesiones disponibles despues de las 3pm. 

 

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