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PARENT SUPPORT COUNSELLING
Guiding Parents, Strengthening Families
Parenting comes with moments of confusion, worry, and emotional overwhelm, especially when your child is struggling. At Innova Psychology, we believe you shouldn’t have to navigate those challenges alone. Our Parent Support services are designed to help you understand your child’s needs, feel more confident in your parenting approach, and create a calmer, more connected home.
What Is Parent Support?
Parent Support is a collaborative, coaching-based service focused on helping caregivers build the skills, insight, and confidence they need to support their child’s wellbeing. You’ll work directly with a psychologist who understands child development, behaviour, emotional regulation, and the family systems that shape daily life.
Sessions focus on you, not your child in the room, creating space to ask questions, explore challenges, and learn tools that fit your family’s unique rhythms.
“The point of parenting isn't to have all the answers before we start out, but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow, because as they do, so will we." - Bridgett Miller
HOW PARENT SUPPORT HELPS
Parents often come to us feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about next steps. Our clinicians offer practical, compassionate guidance grounded in evidence-based approaches such as CBT, modified CBT, attachment theory, and behaviour-informed strategies.
You can expect support in areas like:
Responding to big feelings, meltdowns, and emotional dysregulation
Understanding behaviour through a developmental and neurodiversity-affirming lens
Strengthening routines and transitions (mornings, bedtime, school drop-offs)
Building co-regulation and calming strategies
Managing anxiety, separation worries, or school-related stress
Reducing power struggles and improving communication
Navigating sibling dynamics
Supporting neurodivergent children (ADHD, ASD, learning differences)
Understanding recommendations from assessments or other providers
Our goal is to help you feel more equipped, less overwhelmed, and deeply supported.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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To help families choose what fits best:
Parent Support
Sessions with caregivers only
Focus on your questions, strategies, and skills
Best for younger kids or behaviour/emotion-based concerns
Child Counselling
Sessions primarily with the child
Focus on the child’s therapeutic goals and emotional skills
Best for older children or children who benefit from direct intervention
Many families use both, depending on their needs.
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Parent Support can be helpful for caregivers of:
Toddlers and young children
School-aged children navigating behavioural or emotional concerns
Children or teens awaiting formal assessment
Kids already diagnosed with ADHD, ASD, learning differences, or anxiety
Families needing extra support during transitions
Parents who want tools to feel calmer and more confident day-to-day
Whether you’re dealing with daily meltdowns or want to understand your child’s behaviour better, we’re here to help.
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Why Innova Psychology?
At Innova, you’re supported by clinicians with over 30 years of combined experience across inpatient care, public health, schools, and community settings. We work with children, teens, and young adults, and we value parent involvement and clear, practical guidance.
Our team collaborates closely with physicians, schools, and other professionals, and clients have access to in-house psychiatry for faster, coordinated care.
What truly sets us apart is our approachable, relatable perspective. Many of our clinicians bring lived experience with neurodivergent children, blended families, and small-town roots—allowing us to meet you with both expertise and genuine understanding.
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