Being a Single Parent After Domestic Violence is a trauma-informed support group for parents navigating life after abuse. This group offers a safe, validating space to process experiences, rebuild confidence, and strengthen coping skills while balancing the demands of parenting. Using a strengths-based, person-centered approach, we’ll explore healing from trauma, setting healthy boundaries, managing stress, and reconnecting with your identity beyond survival. You’ll be supported by others who understand, while moving toward safety, stability, and hope for yourself and your family.
Hosted by Katelyn Thain
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Group meets in Fort Wayne, IN 46825
Being a Single Parent After Domestic Violence is a trauma-informed support group for parents navigating life after abuse. This group offers a safe, validating space to process experiences, rebuild confidence, and strengthen coping skills while balancing the demands of parenting. Using a strengths-based, person-centered approach, we’ll explore healing from trauma, setting healthy boundaries, managing stress, and reconnecting with your identity beyond survival. You’ll be supported by others who understand, while moving toward safety, stability, and hope for yourself and your family.
Whitington Services for Children and Services is a multi-disciplinary team trained in Evidence Based therapeutic practices who specialize in Medicaid, Medicare and private pay clients with a history of working with families involved with CHINS proceedings through the courts, fatherhood engagement efforts, trauma focused care, play based interventions and parenting education.
Whitington Services for Children and Services is a multi-disciplinary team trained in Evidence Based therapeutic practices who specialize in Medicaid, Medicare and private pay clients with a history of working with families involved with CHINS proceedings through the courts, fatherhood engagement efforts, trauma focused care, play based interventions and parenting education.
A bi-monthly support group for parents who are coping with teenagers, adult children, and loved ones who have identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender. Group is facilitated from a Christian world view and offers encouragement regarding grace, love, and truth.
A bi-monthly support group for parents who are coping with teenagers, adult children, and loved ones who have identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender. Group is facilitated from a Christian world view and offers encouragement regarding grace, love, and truth.
At Adventures In Learning we help all people we have the privilege of working with to enhance their full potential through goals set together within a trusted, kind, and compassionate relationship between client and therapist. Individual, marriage, and family services are provided. We are proud to state that we are fully trained in EMDR treatment. Our office is professional, cozy, and confidential. We truly value our work and are proud to say we've been helping Fort Wayne and surrounding communities since the mid 90's!
At Adventures In Learning we help all people we have the privilege of working with to enhance their full potential through goals set together within a trusted, kind, and compassionate relationship between client and therapist. Individual, marriage, and family services are provided. We are proud to state that we are fully trained in EMDR treatment. Our office is professional, cozy, and confidential. We truly value our work and are proud to say we've been helping Fort Wayne and surrounding communities since the mid 90's!
Online Groups
Telehealth format for new Mom's to receive support and an open forum to discuss issues and concerns with a psychoeducational format.
Hosted by Janet H Weaver -Insight Therapeutic Services, LLC
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Group meets in Carmel, IN 46032
Telehealth format for new Mom's to receive support and an open forum to discuss issues and concerns with a psychoeducational format.
When was the last time you had the mental space for more than just the dinner menu and organizing the weekly calendar? If you have been feeling burnt out, run down, and spread too thin, you are in the right place. This 8-week self-care series is designed for busy moms/caretakers who have been last on their list of priorities for too long. Over the course of 8 weeks, this online group will guide you through your journey to creating a realistic, manageable, and personalized self-care plan. Take the first step towards getting back to YOU.
When was the last time you had the mental space for more than just the dinner menu and organizing the weekly calendar? If you have been feeling burnt out, run down, and spread too thin, you are in the right place. This 8-week self-care series is designed for busy moms/caretakers who have been last on their list of priorities for too long. Over the course of 8 weeks, this online group will guide you through your journey to creating a realistic, manageable, and personalized self-care plan. Take the first step towards getting back to YOU.
7 week Parenting Group for parents of 0-14 year olds. Based on 'No Drama Discipline' by Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Brison, PhD. * Learn effective discipline techniques * Learn how to get your child to cooperate and do the right thing * Learn the roadmap to handling your child's tantrums, meltdowns and tears * Learn to stay calm, and collected in the midst of the chaos * Learn how to nurture your child's developing mind
Hosted by Robin Christopherson
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, RPT, EMDR
Group meets in Fishers, IN 46038
7 week Parenting Group for parents of 0-14 year olds. Based on 'No Drama Discipline' by Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Brison, PhD. * Learn effective discipline techniques * Learn how to get your child to cooperate and do the right thing * Learn the roadmap to handling your child's tantrums, meltdowns and tears * Learn to stay calm, and collected in the midst of the chaos * Learn how to nurture your child's developing mind
We will be holding an 8 week group for parents with babies 6 months and younger. The group will focus on building connection between parent and baby, how to manage being overwhelmed and keeping baby safe, body image after carrying a baby and feeling connected to your body, etc. Babies are welcome to attend with their parents! this group will cost $25 a session.
We will be holding an 8 week group for parents with babies 6 months and younger. The group will focus on building connection between parent and baby, how to manage being overwhelmed and keeping baby safe, body image after carrying a baby and feeling connected to your body, etc. Babies are welcome to attend with their parents! this group will cost $25 a session.
Is your child/teen/young adult struggling with anxiety or OCD? This parent-only group provides ongoing consultation and support for our community of parents, building upon the evidence-based SPACE approach to reducing child anxiety developed by the Yale Child Studies Center. Christopher has trained directly with SPACE developer Dr. Eli Lebowitz. Explore more at https://www.spacetreatment.net/. Contact Christopher Toomer for further details.
Hosted by Christopher Toomer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MPA, MSW, LCSW
Group meets in Indianapolis, IN 46240
Is your child/teen/young adult struggling with anxiety or OCD? This parent-only group provides ongoing consultation and support for our community of parents, building upon the evidence-based SPACE approach to reducing child anxiety developed by the Yale Child Studies Center. Christopher has trained directly with SPACE developer Dr. Eli Lebowitz. Explore more at https://www.spacetreatment.net/. Contact Christopher Toomer for further details.
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Parenting Support Groups
What does therapy for parenting look like?
Therapists may work with parents individually, together, or include the whole family to find solutions for the problems a parent faces. Many parent-based therapies work on a parent’s relationship with their children, problem-solving within the family, and analysis of family dynamics. Therapy conducted remotely by video may be helpful in allowing a therapist to observe how families interact in their own homes.
When should a parent seek therapy?
When behavioral problems begin to disrupt the healthy functioning of a family, it may be a good time to look into therapy. If parents find that children are acting out in school, have started using drugs or alcohol, have developed eating disorders, or other similar red flags, a therapist may be able to help.
How long does therapy take for parenting problems?
Depending on the severity of a family’s challenges and the type of treatment utilized, therapy for parenting can last from weeks to months. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a pragmatic therapy type that can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. Structural family therapy, which inspects family dynamics, often takes several months. Parent-child interaction therapy is typically shorter-term, lasting between 10 and 20 sessions. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realized.
Can therapy help parents dealing with burnout or stress?
Parenting is difficult. Parents may dismiss or conceal feelings of exhaustion, overwhelm, or escape ideation—imagining withdrawing from their parental obligations altogether. but left unattended, these feelings can have negative effects on the whole family. A therapist can help parents work on the skills they might need to better cope with the burdens of parenting and help them be the best parents they can be.