Parenting presents a unique challenge in finding the right balance between allowing your child to undertake necessary risks to learn and grow and ensuring their choices are above a baseline standard for safety. Simply watching your child ride a skateboard or climb a tree can be anxiety-inducing, as a parent tries to keep their child from getting hurt while encouraging their self-assurance and independence. Working with one of the therapists at Harper's Haven Marriage, Family, & Child Counseling Corp., can help families in Lancaster, CA, and northern Los Angeles County maintain a healthy attitude.
How Does Parental Anxiety Impact Children?
Anxiety can be created by a complex interplay of one’s genetics and the environment. Each of these components is greatly influenced by one’s caregivers. In fact, families may inadvertently spur anxiety simply by their need to protect one another. And, in trying to keep some sense of control and safety, parents sometimes create an environment in which things seem scarier than they should be.
How Can Online Therapy for Parents Help?
Using techniques like those noted below, therapists at Harper’s Haven Marriage, Family, & Child Counseling can offer services that will allow for the parent to learn skills to cope with their own anxiety, and provide parenting skills within therapy which is an effective way to allow for parents to validate their child’s experiential anxiety. This can be done in a way that provides confidence to their child in their ability to cope within situations. These include -
- Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy.
- An Integrative Approach.
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).
Essentially, the best thing family therapy or family counseling can do is offer parents the opportunity to create small and unique behavioral changes that add up to make a big difference.
Contact Lancaster and North LA County-Based Online Counseling and Parenting Support Today
For more information on our family counseling and therapy for children options, contact Keshia Humphrey at 661-221-9901 or online. We look forward to personalizing a family counseling treatment plan today.