Family Counselling and Parenting Support
Family relationships can be a source of connection and support, but they can also become complicated. Differences in communication, expectations, parenting, values, culture, or life stages can create tension between family members and leave everyone feeling frustrated or misunderstood.
You may be struggling with your child's behaviour, repeated parent-child conflict, disagreements about parenting, difficult relationships with parents or in-laws, or changes within your family that have been hard to navigate.
I provide family counselling and parenting support in Metrotown, Burnaby, with both in-person and online sessions available.
Family Issues and Conflicts
Family conflict often involves more than one disagreement. Over time, family members can become caught in patterns of arguing, withdrawing, blaming, or trying unsuccessfully to get each other to understand.
Counselling can help you better understand these patterns, communicate more effectively, and find healthier ways of responding to one another. We may also explore boundaries, expectations, differences in values, and the roles family members have developed over time.
Parenting Support
Parenting can be challenging, especially when a child or teenager is anxious, angry, withdrawn, defiant, or having difficulty communicating with you. You may have tried many different approaches and still feel frustrated, worried, or unsure what to do next.
Parenting counselling can help you better understand what may be happening between you and your child, respond more effectively during difficult moments, and strengthen communication and connection. We can also explore differences between parents about discipline, expectations, boundaries, and how best to support your child.
Parents, In-Laws, and Extended Family
Relationships with parents, grandparents, and in-laws can become difficult when expectations, boundaries, personalities, or ways of communicating are different.
These challenges can become even more complicated when cultural traditions, family roles, or different generations have different ideas about responsibility, independence, marriage, parenting, or how family members should relate to one another.
Counselling can help you better understand these dynamics, clarify your own needs and boundaries, and develop more constructive ways of managing difficult family relationships.
Stepfamilies and Changing Family Relationships
Families can also face challenges when relationships and roles change. Separation, remarriage, blended families, children moving between households, or changing responsibilities for parents and grandparents can require everyone to adjust.
Counselling can provide a place to understand these changes, work through differences, and develop clearer expectations and healthier ways of relating to one another.
What If Your Family Members Won't Come?
It is helpful when family members are willing to participate, but counselling can still be useful even if only one person is ready to begin.
Family relationships involve patterns between people, and you can work on understanding your own reactions, communication, boundaries, and choices even when another family member does not participate. Changes in how you respond can sometimes change how a difficult interaction unfolds.
You don't need to wait for everyone else to be ready before beginning this work.
Let's Work Together
Family and parenting difficulties can leave you feeling frustrated, worried, hurt, or unsure about what to do next. Counselling can provide a supportive place to better understand what is happening and consider different ways of moving forward.
My name is Chi, and I provide family counselling and parenting support in Metrotown, Burnaby. My approach is collaborative and draws from family systems, attachment, and relationship perspectives to help families and individuals better understand the patterns that develop between them.
Book a free 20-minute phone consultation
You can also reach me at 604-719-7555. If I am in a session, feel free to text or leave a voicemail. I will get back to you as soon as I can. We can figure this out together.
Other counselling services: Couples and Relationship Counselling
Areas of Practice
Family Conflict
Parenting Challenges
Parent-Child Relationships
Communication
Stepfamily Adjustment
Grandparenting Issues
Cross-Cultural Challenges
Intergenerational Differences
In-Law Conflicts
Values Differences