Parenting Support
Are you a parent who is struggling?
Are you experiencing one or more of these symptoms?
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Feeling overwhelmed or constantly stressed
Frequent arguments or conflicts with children
Difficulty managing children’s behaviour or discipline
Experiencing burnout or exhaustion from parenting duties
Feeling unsupported or isolated in parenting responsibilities
Struggling to balance parenting with other life demands
Increased irritability or frustration
Feeling guilty or inadequate as a parent
Difficulty communicating effectively with children
Experiencing anxiety or depression related to parenting
We are here to help you navigate parenting challenges with compassionate and judgement-free guidance and support.
Meet our therapists
“Parenting is one of the most important jobs, if not the most important job someone will ever have.”
Amelia Larson
MSW, Registered Clinical Social Worker (RCSW), Approved Clinical Supervisor
With over 18 years of experience, Amelia understands the challenges that many parents face today. Creating a supportive and judgement-free environment, she helps you to recognize relational patterns and explore strategies that can assist in improving your connection with your child. Her honours degree in human development and family relations, alongside her Master of Clinical Social Work, informs her approach backed by research and attachment-focused best practices.
Being a parent and former foster parent, Amelia has learned first-hand how to navigate diverse parenting challenges, providing parents with tools and techniques from a deep level of awareness. While supporting couples through co-parenting challenges, Amelia helps to bring together two perspectives into one that is cohesive and united, aligning with your family’s unique values, needs, and circumstances. She also supports families with children who live with neurodivergence.
Learn moreabout Amelia.
“Therapy provides the unconditional care and presence that is needed for healing.”
Amber Jerome
Registered Provisional Psychologist
Amber has worked extensively with families and parents supporting them through life challenges in a variety of settings. She has helped parents and single moms through experiences such as separations, domestic violence, coercive control, and the early stages of pregnancy, as well as helping to repair broken relationships with children and partners.
Having taught parenting classes and experience in a crisis nursery, Amber brings a breadth of knowledge about child development, healthy parent-child relationships, discipline, family routines, intense emotions, childhood adversity, resiliency, neurodiverse parenting strategies, and raising healthy teens. She believes that therapy provides a safe and judgement-free space for positive connection that is essential to find a way forward and overcome difficulties.
Learn more about Amber.
Addressing Parent Overwhelm
“Frequently feeling tired, stressed, and overwhelmed are common among parents today,” says Amelia.
A client case study
Life was very busy for Laura. Between being a mother, spouse, employee, and caretaker of an ill family member, her plate was more than full—she felt overwhelmed. Having her attention pulled in many directions, Laura was not the parent she wanted to be with her six-year-old son. When addressing challenging behaviours, she often reverted to how she was parented as an authoritarian—impatient, irritable, and short when enforcing rules. This was contrary to how she wanted to parent, to be present, attuned, and attentive to her child. She noticed that her son was less interested in talking to and spending time with them, even though it was expected at his age. Instead, he was more interested in playing by himself. Laura had always wanted to be a parent, but it was not what she imagined it would be.
“Parents today often face many challenges that impede them in becoming the parent they want to be,” says Amelia Larson, Registered Clinical Social Worker and Approved Clinical Supervisor at As You Are Therapy & Consulting. “At the foundational level, our atomized culture diminishes the societal support systems that are needed for families to thrive.”
When parents lack support from extended family, friends, neighbours, or community, they feel isolated and must bear the full brunt of responsibilities. Raising children takes a lot of time, energy, attention, and resources, which is often more than what parents alone can provide…
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How can parenting support help?
Improve communication between you and your child
Develop effective discipline and behaviour management strategies
Reduce stress and prevent burnout from parenting responsibilities
Enhance parenting skills and confidence
Provide support during major life transitions (e.g., divorce, relocation)
Address and manage your child’s special needs or chronic illnesses
Strengthen the bond and emotional connection you have with your child
Help you work together more cohesively in co-parenting situations
Offer strategies for balancing parenting with other life demands
Provide tools to cope with grief, loss, or trauma within the family
Read more about our therapy services for parents.
We are accepting clients residing in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
Our Rates
Amelia Larson (M.S.W., R.C.S.W., Approved Clinical Supervisor)
$200 (55 min)
Amber Jerome (Registered Provisional Psychologist)
$160 (55 min)
Covered by most insurance plans.
Your therapy experience will be unique to who you are, your goals, and needs. Drawing on various forms of therapy ensures we can tailor your experience to best suit your needs. One size does not fit all.
Therapy FAQs
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We work with emerging adults, adults and couples who are experiencing life transitions, symptoms of anxiety, depression, challenges with relationships, stress, trauma and struggles with parenting/co-parenting.
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We offer a free 15 minute consultation session for you to explore if we are the right fit for you–your goals, your needs, and your style.
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We do not work with children under the age of 15. We do not support individuals experiencing active psychosis.
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Sessions are 55 minutes in length.
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This can be directed by you if that feels right. We will often share a bit about who we are, explore your goals for therapy, answer any questions you have, and give you an opportunity to explore if we are the right fit for you.
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Yes, we bill a number of insurance providers directly. Please ensure your plan covers the designation of Provisional Psychologist or MSW, RCSW.
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Therapy can help you explore how past, current, and future experiences impact your behaviour, thoughts, and emotions. It can unpack how to show up as the best version of yourself in relationships and throughout contexts in your life. It can help you better manage how you cope with life stressors to enhance your daily functioning.
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We are client-centered which means, we take our cues and direction about how therapy unfolds from you. At times, therapy will be uncomfortable and this is where growth happens. We believe in being real and transparent, this will sometimes include some laughs and hearing the hard things.
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Your first session is an opportunity to know each other better and explore how to reach your goals, or we can dive right into why you came to therapy in the first place. It’s up to you!
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Our hope is that every therapy session will provide valuable insight, resources, and tools to help you get closer to reaching your goals in life.
Depending on the goals you have and the challenges you are navigating, some people will be in therapy regularly for a longer period of time, some may check in infrequently, and some may feel like they have what they need after a few sessions.
Our goal is never to have people in therapy every week forever, we want people to gain skills and practice them in the world without us and come back when they need support.
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We offer both virtual and in-person walk and talk sessions. We want you to be in your own safe space while working through the ‘tough’ stuff. For local clients (Calgary and Chestermere), there are options for walk and talk sessions. These sessions occur in nature (parks, walking paths, trails etc.) where we conduct a therapy session while walking together. Some people find this to be an easier way to work through their tough stuff. These sessions are weather dependent.
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You are free to contact us after hours, however, please do not expect a response outside of the business day.
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We have a limited number of sliding scale sessions available.
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We accept credit card payments, e-transfers, and NIHB funding.
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Either book your free 15-minute consult today, book yourself in for a session, or Contact Us with your questions.
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A therapeutic connection is an intimate and meaningful partnership. We offer a 15-minute complimentary phone consultation to determine if As You Are Therapy is the right choice for you.
