Parenting Support

Parent Therapy

Parents often require therapeutic support and assistance. Parent therapy focuses on helping families build empathy for their child’s struggles, learning how to develop strategies to help their child cope and better understand the role they need to play as parents.

Parents work with a qualified professional at STEPS and sessions are either planned or on a need basis.

Divorce Parenting

A divorce is a significant disruption in the life of all family members. Parents who are going through a divorce may be experiencing intense emotions and feelings of conflict, grief and anger among others, in many instances leaving children to navigate the uncertainty of a broken family and custody arrangements.

During this chaos we believe that empowered parents can play a significant role in helping their child/children survive this period of time and eventually flourish. As part of our services we work with parents to help them understand the challenges of shared/ single parenting, learning to communicate with their child and recognise early signs of the onset of a mental health difficulty.

Adoptive Parenting

Adopting a child can be the start of a wonderful journey in parenting. As parent/parents embark on this journey it is helpful to have a view of understanding common adoptive parenting challenges and how to overcome them. Parent/s are made aware of common questions that adopted children ask and how to address them. We also help parents anticipate future challenges in parenting and prepare for them.

Groups

We offer support group services exclusively for parents and clients at STEPS. The composition of support groups and their frequency varies according to the needs of the group. We do not offer support groups for families who are being treated by professionals outside of STEPS.