* Understanding your child's behaviors and needs
* Developing rules and consequences
* Getting your child to "buy into" a new way of thinking
* Understanding the impact of a contrary culture
* Breaking issues of control
* Shifting your parenting style
* Helping your teen become independent
* Getting through a crisis
* Building the relationship between you and your chid
 

We teach and demonstrate effective parenting skills and techniques that will help you to break through the communication barriers that may be undermining your authority in the home.

 

Either parent may be inadvertently feeding into the fever of non-compliance, triangulation, manipulation, arguments, willfulness, poor academic status, school referrals, poor peer selection, and other problems you may be facing with your adolescent or child.

While our therapists believe that the luckiest children are those who have grandparents and other extended family involvement, we also address parenting concerns and boundary issues, stemming from meddling or any staying extended family members - including the often dreaded "in-laws."

We understand the excitement and challenges that come with blended families or children whose parents are divorced and they go back and forth between parents as well, and want to help you to help each other make adjustments to the changes that occur when two families join under one roof.

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Our counselors will help families who have been disconnected and need reunification therapy, court ordered or not. We will work with both parents and the child or children to reunite them with an estranged parent. We teach the estranged parent how to interact with the child or children in a happy, positive welcoming manner. We show the child or children how to cope with this change in their life and welcome their parent back into their life.

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Our therapists at Star Point Counseling Center in Brandon, Tampa, Seffner, Valrico, New Tampa, Riverview, Lithia, Gibsonton, Apollo Beach, Dover, Plant City and Ruskin Florida have helped thousands and thousands of parents and families with parenting skills to enrich their family life.