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 it all and trying to figure out how to make it right.
I support and equip parents in two ways. 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 stronger, and when the relationship gets stronger, everyone feels better. That is the positive upward spiral we work toward.
Sessions are available in Mount Colah, near Hornsby, and online for parents across Northern Sydney and beyond.
If you’re wondering whether this support is right for what you’re carrying, you can read more about who I work with.
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 either focuses on you, or on your child, as if the two can be separated. I don't think they can.
Because what I've seen, over and over, is this: a parent can have all the insight in the world about what their child needs, and still not be able to get there in the moment, 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.
If you’re unsure whether counselling or psychology is the right level of support, you can read more about the difference between a counsellor and psychologist.
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 can read more about fees, referrals and what to expect before booking.
You don’t have to carry the weight of parenting alone.