Parent Coaching & Family Therapy · North York & Oakville
When your child is struggling, they turn to you. So do we.
Children do not come with a manual. And even if they did, every child would need a different one. Parent coaching at Whole Kids Health is about finding what works for your child, your family, and your life right now. We work with parents in North York, Oakville, and across Ontario.
Why parent work matters
You are the most powerful force in your child's life.
Parents are in the hard moments. The 7pm meltdown, the school refusal morning, the conversation you don't know how to start. No clinician is there for those. You are.
Supporting you is one of the most direct ways we can reach your child. You don't need to be a perfect parent. You need to feel equipped, understood, and like you have someone in your corner.
No shame. No blame. No manual.
Walk into any bookstore and you'll find ten books on parenting an anxious child that tell you ten different things. They're not all wrong. They're just not all written about your child. What we do here is take what the evidence says works and figure out what that looks like for your family specifically.
Parenting younger children
When the hard moments happen many times a day.
With younger children, parents carry a lot. You are the decision-maker, the regulator, and the safe place all at once. When behaviour is challenging or connection feels hard, it can be exhausting and confusing in equal measure.
We help you understand what is driving what you are seeing, and find approaches that are sustainable for your family, not just strategies that work once.
Parenting teenagers
The relationship doesn't disappear in the teenage years. It changes shape.
You're often left wondering what's going on. The conversations are less open. They have more autonomy. Friends become the centre of their world while parents fade a little into the background. That shift is normal. It's also genuinely hard.
We help parents understand what's happening developmentally, how to approach the conversations that feel impossible, and how to stay connected even when connection looks different than it used to. And sometimes it's the opposite: a teen who should be pulling away but isn't. We support that too.
Family therapy
When the whole family needs to be in the room.
Sometimes what needs support isn't one person. It's the relationships between people. Family therapy is a different kind of work. Everyone comes into the room. The client is the family itself.
We work with families navigating tension, disconnection, a child's diagnosis, grief, and major life transitions. Families rebuilding connection after distance has grown. Parents and children finding their way back to each other. Whatever has shifted in the family system, we help you find what is still there and build from it.
Evidence-based approaches
The programs we draw on.
Our clinicians are trained in a range of evidence-based parenting programs. The right approach depends on your child, your family, and what you're working through.
IYPP
Incredible Years Parenting Program
SPACE
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
COSP
Circle of Security Parenting
EFFT
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy
PCIT
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Triple P
Positive Parenting Program
Coping Power
Coping Power Program
Attachment
Attachment-Based Parenting
SFFT
Solution-Focused Family Therapy
All parent coaching at Whole Kids Health is individualized, strength-based, and adapted to your family's values and circumstances.