Connect with licensed therapists who specialize in parenting support, co-parenting, and parent-child relationships. Available in-person and via telehealth across all 50 states.
Parenting support therapy is professional counseling that helps parents navigate the emotional, relational, and behavioral challenges of raising children. Unlike parent coaching, parenting support therapy is provided by a licensed clinician trained in child development, family systems, and mental health — someone who can assess the full picture and treat underlying factors that affect how parents relate to their children.
The scope of parenting support is broad. It may help a parent who is struggling with a child's behavioral difficulties develop more effective discipline strategies. It may support co-parents who are struggling to communicate effectively after a separation. It may help a parent who grew up with difficult role models break generational patterns. Or it may simply offer a confidential space to process the stress, grief, and identity shifts that accompany significant parenting challenges.
Children do best in environments where their parents feel supported, emotionally regulated, and equipped. Parenting support therapy does not treat parenting failure — it treats parenting as the extraordinarily difficult, high-stakes job it is, and provides the professional backup that parents deserve. An MFT specializing in parenting support brings expertise in attachment theory, child development, family systems, and evidence-based behavioral interventions.
MFTs use research-backed methods to help parents build effective, connected relationships with their children.
Developed from operant conditioning principles, PMT teaches parents to use positive reinforcement, consistent consequences, and clear communication to reduce problematic child behavior and strengthen cooperative behavior. Therapists coach parents through skill-building exercises and role-play. PMT is one of the most extensively studied behavioral interventions for children's conduct problems and is particularly effective for ages 3–12.
PCIT is a unique approach where the therapist coaches the parent in real time through an earpiece while the parent interacts with their child in the session room. The first phase builds warmth and connection; the second addresses discipline and behavior management. PCIT has strong evidence for improving the parent-child relationship, reducing child behavioral problems, and decreasing parent stress. Designed for children ages 2–7.
Grounded in attachment theory, this approach helps parents understand how their own attachment history shapes their parenting style — and how to build secure, responsive relationships with their children. Therapists help parents recognize their child's attachment cues, respond sensitively to emotional distress, and repair ruptures in the parent-child relationship. Particularly valuable for adoptive parents, trauma-affected families, and parents who experienced insecure attachment themselves.
Developed by Dr. Ross Greene, this approach reconceptualizes children's challenging behavior as the result of lagging skills — not defiance or willfulness. Parents learn to identify the specific thinking and communication skills their child has not yet developed, and to solve problems collaboratively with their child rather than through unilateral imposition of adult will. CPS reduces conflict, increases cooperation, and is highly effective for children with ADHD, anxiety, ODD, and autism spectrum presentations.
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LMFT, PhD · 16 Years Experience
Los Angeles, CA · In-Person & Telehealth
Dr. Morales is a certified PCIT therapist with deep expertise in parenting children with ADHD, ODD, and anxiety-driven behavioral challenges. She has a special focus on helping parents who are also managing their own anxiety or depression understand how their mental health intersects with their parenting. Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Insurance: Aetna, Anthem, Blue Shield of CA, Medi-Cal
LMFT · 9 Years Experience
Dallas, TX · In-Person & Telehealth
Ben specializes in co-parenting support for separated and divorced parents. He helps former partners establish functional co-parenting communication, resolve disputes without legal intervention, and protect their children from parental conflict. He uses a structured, skills-based approach drawing on communication theory and child development research to create parenting plans that actually work.
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Self-Pay
LMFT, MA · 12 Years Experience
Seattle, WA · Telehealth Only
Lisa works with adoptive and foster parents who are navigating the unique challenges of attachment-disrupted parenting. She brings deep expertise in trauma-informed parenting, helping parents understand the survival behaviors of children who have experienced early adversity and respond in ways that build safety and trust rather than inadvertently triggering defensive responses. She also works with parents of teens with anxiety and eating disorders.
Insurance: Premera, Regence, Out-of-Network
LMFT · 11 Years Experience
Atlanta, GA · In-Person & Telehealth
Winston works with fathers specifically — addressing the unique challenges, cultural expectations, and emotional isolation that many fathers experience but rarely bring to therapy. He helps fathers develop more connected, emotionally present parenting styles while navigating the demands of work, relationship stress, and their own upbringing. He also works with couples experiencing transition-to-parenthood strain.
Insurance: Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Self-Pay
LMFT, EdD · 18 Years Experience
Minneapolis, MN · In-Person & Telehealth
Dr. Larson specializes in parenting adolescents — one of the most challenging phases of parenting for many families. She helps parents navigate the normal (but difficult) developmental tasks of adolescence: pushing for independence, peer influence, risk-taking, and identity formation. She works extensively with parents of teens who are struggling with depression, anxiety, or substance use, helping parents stay connected without enabling.
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, UCare, Self-Pay
LMFT · 7 Years Experience
Phoenix, AZ · In-Person & Telehealth
Fatima works with single mothers and single fathers who are navigating the unique emotional and practical demands of solo parenting. She specializes in parental burnout, helping parents reconnect with their own needs without guilt, and in supporting parents whose children are struggling with behavioral or emotional difficulties as a result of family instability. LGBTQ+ affirming, including same-sex parents.
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, AHCCCS, Self-Pay
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