Gay fathers meet to discuss their experiences with other gay fathers. They explore the challenges and joys of being men who identify as both a father and gay. The group offers an opportunity for gay fathers to network and explore feelings around parenting in a safe, supportive environment.
Gay fathers meet to discuss their experiences with other gay fathers. They explore the challenges and joys of being men who identify as both a father and gay. The group offers an opportunity for gay fathers to network and explore feelings around parenting in a safe, supportive environment.
Struggling with your child’s behavior? Finding it difficult to help your child manage their frustrations (or manage your own)? If your child has been diagnosed with a specific mental illness, or if you are simply finding it challenging to care for your child due to their behavior, this group will provide you with specific skills and tools in a supportive environment of parents and guardians similarly struggling. Led by City Center's Jayson Brown, who has 15+ years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults living with relationship issues, grief, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
Hosted by Andrew B Schmidt
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LCSW-R
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
Struggling with your child’s behavior? Finding it difficult to help your child manage their frustrations (or manage your own)? If your child has been diagnosed with a specific mental illness, or if you are simply finding it challenging to care for your child due to their behavior, this group will provide you with specific skills and tools in a supportive environment of parents and guardians similarly struggling. Led by City Center's Jayson Brown, who has 15+ years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults living with relationship issues, grief, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
Searchlight Therapy is a Group Practice offering highly customizable, individualized, and transformative care to Adolescents, Young Adults, and their Families treating Substance Use and Co Occurring Disorders in New York City Whether you’re taking the first step or continuing your journey, we’re here to walk alongside you by helping to navigate the challenges of recovery, rebuild connection, and create lasting change. Our team of experienced therapists are dedicated to helping adolescents and adults take that first step. Services- Individual Therapy Family Therapy Clinical Parent Coaching Clinical Case Management Consulting
Searchlight Therapy is a Group Practice offering highly customizable, individualized, and transformative care to Adolescents, Young Adults, and their Families treating Substance Use and Co Occurring Disorders in New York City Whether you’re taking the first step or continuing your journey, we’re here to walk alongside you by helping to navigate the challenges of recovery, rebuild connection, and create lasting change. Our team of experienced therapists are dedicated to helping adolescents and adults take that first step. Services- Individual Therapy Family Therapy Clinical Parent Coaching Clinical Case Management Consulting
The layers of the onion that we must attend to as parents and partners simultaneously is hard enough….enter pandemic. And here we are…in the fishbowl! Where every aspect of our experience is out for all to see, our missteps, vulnerabilities, frustrations, stained sweatpants, moodiness, pain and fears. This group offers support to be as authentically ourselves as possible, while living so closely with every aspect of each other. Join us in working on how to take care and be the best person, partner, parent we can be in the midst of the unknown.
The layers of the onion that we must attend to as parents and partners simultaneously is hard enough….enter pandemic. And here we are…in the fishbowl! Where every aspect of our experience is out for all to see, our missteps, vulnerabilities, frustrations, stained sweatpants, moodiness, pain and fears. This group offers support to be as authentically ourselves as possible, while living so closely with every aspect of each other. Join us in working on how to take care and be the best person, partner, parent we can be in the midst of the unknown.
The Unspoken Challenges of Parenting(tm) therapy groups provide a confidential and safe environment where professionally guided conversations address parenting issues. The groups help parents identify, understand and constructively address emerging issues. Share your experience of parenting and get the support and tools you need to develop confidence and make effective choices. Let empathic support and guidance create more balance in your day-to-day life. Groups include Parents of Young Children, Parents of Middle-Schoolers, and Parents of Teenagers. Each group meets weekly for an hour-and-a-half for 8 weeks.
Hosted by Jackie L Cohen
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSEd, CAPCP
Group meets in New York, NY 10024
The Unspoken Challenges of Parenting(tm) therapy groups provide a confidential and safe environment where professionally guided conversations address parenting issues. The groups help parents identify, understand and constructively address emerging issues. Share your experience of parenting and get the support and tools you need to develop confidence and make effective choices. Let empathic support and guidance create more balance in your day-to-day life. Groups include Parents of Young Children, Parents of Middle-Schoolers, and Parents of Teenagers. Each group meets weekly for an hour-and-a-half for 8 weeks.
This is a special twice-a-month support group for parents of transgender and gender expansive children and adults! As we join in our children’s journey, we also grapple with our own myriad and complex feelings, how to support and advocate for them, and how to navigate family, friends, and systems. In this group, we will give ample space for our complex and nuanced feelings as trans- parents including pride, sadness, grief, fears for their safety, joy and happiness, anger, relief, disagreement and the normative questioning of all the current norms and expectations placed upon us by society.
This is a special twice-a-month support group for parents of transgender and gender expansive children and adults! As we join in our children’s journey, we also grapple with our own myriad and complex feelings, how to support and advocate for them, and how to navigate family, friends, and systems. In this group, we will give ample space for our complex and nuanced feelings as trans- parents including pride, sadness, grief, fears for their safety, joy and happiness, anger, relief, disagreement and the normative questioning of all the current norms and expectations placed upon us by society.
The FBN monthly support group brings together families formed with the help of egg/sperm/embryo donation and/or surrogacy as well as parents-to-be; giving them the opportunity to ask questions, get answers to their concerns, share experiences and feel supported. Many parents are unsure whether they should tell their children and others about their conception. Meetings provide a safe and comfortable place where parents feel supported and not alone. Often, it is through listening and sharing stories with others that parents gain the confidence needed to create lasting healthy connections with their donor-conceived children.
The FBN monthly support group brings together families formed with the help of egg/sperm/embryo donation and/or surrogacy as well as parents-to-be; giving them the opportunity to ask questions, get answers to their concerns, share experiences and feel supported. Many parents are unsure whether they should tell their children and others about their conception. Meetings provide a safe and comfortable place where parents feel supported and not alone. Often, it is through listening and sharing stories with others that parents gain the confidence needed to create lasting healthy connections with their donor-conceived children.
Learn and develop skills to bring intention, compassion and attunement into your parenting moments. New and experienced mindfulness practitioners are welcome. This series is for parents with children 0-6 years old. Connect: Share and normalize common human feelings as well as exchange ideas on how to navigate these familiar patterns. Support: Receive and provide encouragement, bolster confidence and self efficacy. Develop Skills. Learn how to integrate mindfulness and compassion in your day to day lives. Build concrete and practical strategies to parent with presence. Each week we will focus on a specific topic related to parenting and how to apply mindfulness to these subjects.
Hosted by Meira Cohen-Hansford
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in New York, NY 10007
Learn and develop skills to bring intention, compassion and attunement into your parenting moments. New and experienced mindfulness practitioners are welcome. This series is for parents with children 0-6 years old. Connect: Share and normalize common human feelings as well as exchange ideas on how to navigate these familiar patterns. Support: Receive and provide encouragement, bolster confidence and self efficacy. Develop Skills. Learn how to integrate mindfulness and compassion in your day to day lives. Build concrete and practical strategies to parent with presence. Each week we will focus on a specific topic related to parenting and how to apply mindfulness to these subjects.
Meet with other adoptive parents for a monthly group to discuss challenges you are currently facing in your family. We welcome all adoptive parents to join us for a one time group or for the series! Each group will be facilitated over Zoom and will be a discussion-based group. For more information please visit: https://spence-chapin.org/events
Meet with other adoptive parents for a monthly group to discuss challenges you are currently facing in your family. We welcome all adoptive parents to join us for a one time group or for the series! Each group will be facilitated over Zoom and will be a discussion-based group. For more information please visit: https://spence-chapin.org/events
Becoming a father changes everything — and almost nobody prepares you for it. The Drive Home is a 6-session online workshop for new and expecting fathers who want to show up fully: for their child, their partner, and themselves. We explore the neurobiology of parenting, attachment, and the experiences that shape the father you're becoming. You'll gain practical tools and real connection with fathers who get it. Fatherhood is transformative — you shouldn't navigate it alone. Sessions meet every other Monday at 7PM. Cost is $60. Reach out at rm@randymaldonadolcsw.com
Becoming a father changes everything — and almost nobody prepares you for it. The Drive Home is a 6-session online workshop for new and expecting fathers who want to show up fully: for their child, their partner, and themselves. We explore the neurobiology of parenting, attachment, and the experiences that shape the father you're becoming. You'll gain practical tools and real connection with fathers who get it. Fatherhood is transformative — you shouldn't navigate it alone. Sessions meet every other Monday at 7PM. Cost is $60. Reach out at rm@randymaldonadolcsw.com
Group for parents of neurodiverse children - with or without a diagnosis. Some example issues are ADHD, sensory, learning disabilities... The purpose is to come together to give each other support, vent, brainstorm, and share resources in a safe accepting place. The day to day parenting of a SN child comes with both joy and challenges. Sometimes it feels like only those who have been through it can really understand. It is also sometimes too painful to share emotions of frustration or guilt with others. By getting together we get to listen, support, connect, and empower our selves for another week!
Hosted by Hili Tsarfati
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LICSW
Group meets in New York, NY 10016
Group for parents of neurodiverse children - with or without a diagnosis. Some example issues are ADHD, sensory, learning disabilities... The purpose is to come together to give each other support, vent, brainstorm, and share resources in a safe accepting place. The day to day parenting of a SN child comes with both joy and challenges. Sometimes it feels like only those who have been through it can really understand. It is also sometimes too painful to share emotions of frustration or guilt with others. By getting together we get to listen, support, connect, and empower our selves for another week!
Parents can feel frustrated and alone in trying to understand thier child's emontional and physical development. Parent Workshop can offer guidance to help lessen stressors through the use of rules, routines and limit setting.
Parents can feel frustrated and alone in trying to understand thier child's emontional and physical development. Parent Workshop can offer guidance to help lessen stressors through the use of rules, routines and limit setting.
This twelve week, twelve session workshop covers practical concerns that parents face - it is interactive, not a lecture series. Based on " Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)," developed by Thomas Gordon, PhD., you will learn a system of communication, with specific skills and techniques to cover the situations that are part of your everyday family life. You will be able to apply what you learn each week with family and friends, have a chance to assess how you're doing, and ask questions. My goal is to ensure that you have an educational and relevant learning experience. Please visit my website www.villageparenting.nyc
This twelve week, twelve session workshop covers practical concerns that parents face - it is interactive, not a lecture series. Based on " Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)," developed by Thomas Gordon, PhD., you will learn a system of communication, with specific skills and techniques to cover the situations that are part of your everyday family life. You will be able to apply what you learn each week with family and friends, have a chance to assess how you're doing, and ask questions. My goal is to ensure that you have an educational and relevant learning experience. Please visit my website www.villageparenting.nyc
BECOME CERTIFIED IN STEPFAMILY AT OUR CERTIFICATION SEMINARS lead by Jeannette Lofas, PhD LCSW, Founder & President.
Earn our "Certified Counselor or Coach" Certificate. Counselors must be licensed, Coaches don't need to be licensed just have stepfamily experience. Be promoted on our website. Help others with your knowledge and skills. Make a difference for today's families, couples, and children.
$1200. Education/Tax-deductible For more information 646-789-2525, or visit www.stepfamily.org. Seminars are now in-person or by video-conferencing.
Hosted by Jeannette Lofas
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LCSW
Group meets in New York, NY 10024
BECOME CERTIFIED IN STEPFAMILY AT OUR CERTIFICATION SEMINARS lead by Jeannette Lofas, PhD LCSW, Founder & President.
Earn our "Certified Counselor or Coach" Certificate. Counselors must be licensed, Coaches don't need to be licensed just have stepfamily experience. Be promoted on our website. Help others with your knowledge and skills. Make a difference for today's families, couples, and children.
$1200. Education/Tax-deductible For more information 646-789-2525, or visit www.stepfamily.org. Seminars are now in-person or by video-conferencing.
Parenthood is challenging no matter how you dice it. Even the more experienced parents are faced with challenges. The parent support group creates a space to build a sense of community with others who are in similar situations. The group focuses on parent support and empowerment. This is created through collaboration and shared experiences from other members of the group.
Parenthood is challenging no matter how you dice it. Even the more experienced parents are faced with challenges. The parent support group creates a space to build a sense of community with others who are in similar situations. The group focuses on parent support and empowerment. This is created through collaboration and shared experiences from other members of the group.
Calling all parents with babies in the first year of life. Lead by Ariella Soffer, Ph.D. (psychologist) and Judith Hoffman, M.D. (pediatrician). Each week we will cover a different topic including: sleep, infant safety, maternal mental health, feeding, sibling adjustment, transition back to work, separation anxiety, and normal development. Curriculum will be customized to meet the needs of registered participants. View MedPsych parent coaching website for more information - www.medpsychparenting.com
Calling all parents with babies in the first year of life. Lead by Ariella Soffer, Ph.D. (psychologist) and Judith Hoffman, M.D. (pediatrician). Each week we will cover a different topic including: sleep, infant safety, maternal mental health, feeding, sibling adjustment, transition back to work, separation anxiety, and normal development. Curriculum will be customized to meet the needs of registered participants. View MedPsych parent coaching website for more information - www.medpsychparenting.com
Becoming a stepmother can be an overwhelming, challenging transition that requires a lot of patience, flexibility, and at times a much needed sense of humor. But with time, being a stepmom can be a deeply rewarding, loving, and meaningful experience. This group is designed to support stepmothers at any stage of their relationship, married or partnered, all are welcome to gain support, skills, and camaraderie, reminding us all that we are not alone.
Becoming a stepmother can be an overwhelming, challenging transition that requires a lot of patience, flexibility, and at times a much needed sense of humor. But with time, being a stepmom can be a deeply rewarding, loving, and meaningful experience. This group is designed to support stepmothers at any stage of their relationship, married or partnered, all are welcome to gain support, skills, and camaraderie, reminding us all that we are not alone.
This group is designed to support parents in learning successful, positive, and evidenced-based behavioral management strategies to manage some of children's more problematic behaviors. In addition, the group is designed to support healthy parent-child relationships and positive family dynamics/structure. The group will meet for 10 sessions and focus on topics such as: behavioral basics, maintaining clear and consistent expectations, managing parental frustration, using natural consequences, addressing problematic behaviors, encouraging health behaviors in children, strengthening parent-child relationship, constructive involvement, and resiliency.
This group is designed to support parents in learning successful, positive, and evidenced-based behavioral management strategies to manage some of children's more problematic behaviors. In addition, the group is designed to support healthy parent-child relationships and positive family dynamics/structure. The group will meet for 10 sessions and focus on topics such as: behavioral basics, maintaining clear and consistent expectations, managing parental frustration, using natural consequences, addressing problematic behaviors, encouraging health behaviors in children, strengthening parent-child relationship, constructive involvement, and resiliency.
A virtual Psychotherapy Group for dads with kids ages 0-early teens who are achieving success but are struggling with wellbeing and balancing professional aspirations with parenting and family life. For high-functioning individuals who are finding it challenging to be the family man they want to be while reaching professional goals. They may be finding that modern life and/or issues from their family of origin are influencing connection, harmony and growth in their parenting, current relationships and career, as well as ongoing life transitions.
A virtual Psychotherapy Group for dads with kids ages 0-early teens who are achieving success but are struggling with wellbeing and balancing professional aspirations with parenting and family life. For high-functioning individuals who are finding it challenging to be the family man they want to be while reaching professional goals. They may be finding that modern life and/or issues from their family of origin are influencing connection, harmony and growth in their parenting, current relationships and career, as well as ongoing life transitions.
Emotions Education 101 8-week group class on ZOOM teaches people how to work with emotions in both the mind and body to achieve change and transformation. We practice "working the Change Triangle." This course is NOT therapy, but it is very therapeutic. Past participants tell us the class shortens therapy by years. To learn more visit hilaryjacobshendel.com and navigate to "Events and Classes" menu. The next class starts 9/13/23. I hope you will join us! Register at hilaryjacobshendel.com
Hosted by Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in New York, NY 10023
Emotions Education 101 8-week group class on ZOOM teaches people how to work with emotions in both the mind and body to achieve change and transformation. We practice "working the Change Triangle." This course is NOT therapy, but it is very therapeutic. Past participants tell us the class shortens therapy by years. To learn more visit hilaryjacobshendel.com and navigate to "Events and Classes" menu. The next class starts 9/13/23. I hope you will join us! Register at hilaryjacobshendel.com
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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.