Parenting support
Support for couples
Becoming a parent is an exciting and transformative experience, but it can also put a strain on even the strongest relationships.
Nearly 70% of couples experience a reduction in relationship satisfaction for up to three years after childbirth!
Becoming Mothers Counseling offers services designed to help you and your partner navigate the transition to parenthood while nurturing your connection. Whether you're expecting your first child or adding to your growing family, our sessions can provide guidance, tools, and a supportive environment to foster a loving partnership amidst the challenges of raising children.
Current Offerings
for Couples
Becoming parents
sessions
Prepare for parenthood together.
relationship
coaching
Based on the Fair Play Model.
Bringing home
baby workshop
A parenting and relationship program.
Prepare for parenthood together
Becoming parents sessions
As expecting parents, you will have the opportunity to explore individual and shared goals and values for your growing family.
Sessions will include:
Identifying parenting influences
Building a fondness and admiration gratitude practice to increase connection
Navigating the expression and tolerance of stress and conflict
Conducting a shared meaning and family philosophy exercise
Based on Fair Play Model
relationship coaching
Fair Play is a system to help couples find a more equitable distribution of labor in the home.
Coaching sessions for parents will help you learn and effectively implement the Fair Play system in your home. You will walk away with a customized system and strategies for ongoing practice.
The Fair Play Method will provide couples and partners with:
Finding balance in the household workload
Clearly defined roles and expectations, making the invisible tasks seen
Having more time and space for self
Taking pride and ownership of the work you do
More connectedness and better communication in the parenting experience
A parenting and relationship program
Bringing Home Baby workshop
Designed for both pregnant and new parents, the Bringing Baby Home Program will give you skills and information to recognize and cope successfully with the normal stressors of becoming a family.
The program teaches new parents how to:
Increase friendship in their relationship
Deal effectively with conflict
Involve each parent in infant care and parenting
Improve the quality of parent-infant interaction
Recognize the psychological and emotional needs of their child
Cope with the normal stressors of parenting
“Bringing Baby Home has given us the knowledge and skills to cope constructively with the many changes brought about by the birth of our child. We now have tools and information to help us make this transition easier on everyone (our baby, our relationship, ourselves). Thank you!”
— former Bringing Baby Home participant
