Parenting Services
Parents
Fireside Counseling believes that the relationship between parents and children can serve as an important role in positive change and progress. We strive to work with each parent to provide the tools to become therapeutic agents for their children, which can ultimately have long-lasting therapeutic gains. At Fireside Counseling, we offer group parenting classes and individual parent sessions where we offer parent training services known as Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT). Parents can learn how to create a warm, non-judgmental, and accepting environment in which their child feels safe to explore the parent-child relationship and themselves.
Child-parent relationship therapy (CPRT)
CPRT is a play therapy-based treatment program for children presenting with behavioral, emotional, social, and attachment disorders and focuses on the importance of a strong connection between parent and child. Research studies have shown that CPRT can reduce or eliminate behavioral problems, enhance the parent-child relationship, develop responsibility and self-control in children, increase children’s self-esteem and self-confidence, and increase the parents’ feelings of warmth for their children. When participating in CPRT, parents will take part in weekly sessions held within a supportive group environment and led by a play therapist trained in this evidence-based treatment. Parents can expect to gain effective parenting skills to best meet their child’s emotional and behavioral needs.