Supporting you while you support them.
Counselling for Parents
ONLINE · Mount Colah · Hornsby · Northern Sydney
You are doing so much: managing the household, holding your child’s big emotions, staying patient through the meltdowns, and worrying about whether you're getting it right. And somewhere underneath all of that, you’re quietly struggling too.
Maybe the anxiety is always there. A low hum you’ve learned to ignore until it isn't ignorable anymore. Maybe you’ve started to feel flat, or like you’re going through the motions without really being present. Maybe you’re snapping at your kids, then lying awake replaying things and trying to figure out how to fix things.
I support and equip parents with two things: managing what’s hard for you, and understanding what your child needs.
When you feel supported and understand what your child needs from you, then difficult moments become opportunities for connection. Then the relationship gets easier, and when the relationship gets easier, everyone feels better. That is the positive upward spiral we work toward.
Do any of these sound familiar?
You are capable and organized, but you are exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix. This isn't a sign of weakness; it’s what happens when you give without being replenished. You deserve to feel recharged too.
I’m exhausted and overwhelmed.
Anxiety is always there, running in the background.
Whether it's worrying about what could go wrong or constantly reading your child’s face for signs of trouble, that "high alert" state is draining. We work on what’s driving that anxiety, not just how to manage the symptoms.
My child’s big emotions are overwhelming us both.
Big emotions and big behaviours are ruling your day-to-day life. What’s often missing isn't more discipline, but a real understanding of what is happening inside your child’s nervous system in those moments.
Separation, illness, or a new diagnosis can leave you feeling untethered. You need a place to share what you’re carrying while you continue to support your children.
Our family is going through major changes.
You see your own history repeating in your reactions and you don't know how to break the cycle. Naming this is the hardest part. From here, it can actually change.
I’m becoming a parent I don't want to be.
Everyone else seems to be finding this easier than me.
It’s so discouraging to feel like you’re the only one struggling. You’re not alone, and it helps to normalise and share what you’re experiencing.
Most parenting support offers one of two things: therapy for you, or strategies for your child. I work in the place where those two things meet.
Because here is what I’ve seen over and over: a parent can learn every strategy in the book, and still not be able to use them when it matters, because they’re too depleted, too triggered, or too caught up in their own unprocessed history to access what they know.
That’s why parent counselling is so important when there are big challenges at home.
How I work
What a session looks like
Sessions are 50 minutes, online or in Mount Colah. Each session holds both threads: what’s happening for you, and what’s happening at home with your child. The balance shifts week to week depending on what you’re carrying.
Some sessions are mostly about you — working through anxiety, processing something from your week, untangling a pattern that keeps surfacing. Others are more focused on your child, decoding a specific behaviour, building a new response, making sense of something that happened. Often it’s both at once, because the two are rarely separate.
You leave each session with both a clearer sense of yourself and a concrete step forward.
You don’t have to carry the weight of parenting alone.