Parent Counseling

Parent Counseling Services

Counseling Partners of Los Angeles (CPLA) is dedicated to improving the lives of students attending schools in underserved areas of Los Angeles. Our team of highly committed and compassionate counselors provides school-based counseling services for elementary and high school students throughout the school year.

We are very pleased to announce that CPLA is now providing Parent Counseling services for parents and caregivers for 25 of our elementary school communities.

Please reach out to us at parents@counselingpartnersofla.org if you would like someone to call you to speak about how we might be able to help you and your family.

Meet our dedicated Parent Counselors:

Erika Marin, AMFT
Elizabeth Gossett-Swann, PhD is a Registered Psychological Assistant #PSB94026412 Supervised by Licensed Clinical Psychologist Mary Elizabeth Horan, PhD PSY 12061.

Erika and Elizabeth are both Spanish speakers.

CPLA Counselor, Erika Marin describing
the benefits of parent counseling along with
some important information.

CPLA Counselor, Elizabeth Gosset-Swann's Introduction Video

(English)

(Spanish)

More information on Parent Counseling

Whats is Parent Counseling?
Parent counseling is a type of counseling where the goals are to improve your relationship with your child and strengthen your family bond.
Being a parent is a joyful and challenging job. Parents are people too with worries and struggles. Most parents find that raising children stirs up feelings of love, fear, frustration, guilt, shame and much more.

Parent counseling helps parents identify, heal and learn from  past experiences and present situations as these may be affecting the way they connect with their children. When a parent has the help, support and knowledge of how to resolve their own issues and how they impact their children, they can be better able to handle the challenges their children bring to their family.

A parent counselor will work with you to identify ways to reduce stress and to help you be more able to connect and feel in  control with your children.

Parent counseling will also  help parents find a way to better communicate with each other about parenting issues.

What Happens During Parent Counseling?
At the beginning of your time together, a parent counselor will get to know you and how your family works. Together you will decide what you want to accomplish: they may be different ways of handling things, stopping doing things, ways to keep calm, ways to prevent arguments and how to build a stronger connection with your children.

A parent counselor will help you develop tools you need to confront your fears, improve your communication, cope with stressful situations, resolve conflicts and successfully parent your child. Your parent counselor may assign "homework" to help you apply what you learn sessions to your home life.

In addition, your counselor will assist you in working as a team with your child’s teachers, responding to any unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors, effectively communicating with your child, managing your child’s moods, coping with stressful situations. You will improve your parenting skills, set achievable goals, and help you better balance your parenting and work commitments.