Parenting Services

The joy of parenting is matched by the challenges it brings. New parents face physical and emotional changes. Parents with young children face a rollercoaster full of difficult decisions and emotions. All parents need a community to support them.

Wellspring Family Services offers a variety of services and classes to help you and your family navigate the challenges of parenthood and delight in all the joys that children bring! We have classes for moms, dads and your new baby, therapy for pregnancy and postpartum mood disorders, and parenting skills classes to help you with the toughest job in the world.

New Parents Services

From the moment you discover you're pregnant or consider adopting a baby to the first days and the first steps of your new baby, our programs help both moms and dads manage all of the stages of early parenting. We are a team of early emotional development therapists who are available to work with your family on the many questions that new parenthood brings.

• Bringing Baby Home

  For expecting moms and dads and parents with young babies - join this workshop to help you prepare yourself and your relationship for the challenges of a new baby.

• Listening Mothers

  Bring your baby to class! Come discover yourself as a new mom and learn techniques to nurture your bond and understand your baby's needs, among a group of other new moms and their babies.

• Beyond the Baby Blues

  Every new parent feels stress sometimes. However if sadness, anxiety, or stress is overwhelming you or affecting your ability to parent - contact us today!

  Depression and anxiety related to pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, or loss can affect you without warning, even if you've never had a history of anxiety or depression. Women with careers as well as women who stay at home, fathers, and adoptive parents can also be affected.

• Father's First Steps

  A new group for Dads and your new baby! Does your new baby come with a bundle of questions and surprises? - Don't worry, you're not alone! This unique group opportunity for new dads can get you and baby together for some essential bonding and learning time, along with other new dads and their babies too!

• Parent-Infant Counseling

  The first few years of your baby's development are essential to the rest of your child's life. By strengthening your relationship with your baby we help you create the social and emotional health your child needs to thrive. Come work together as a family with our team of parent-infant emotional development specialists.

• Reflective Parenting

  Our reflective parenting groups help parents explore their children's thoughts, feelings and motivations as well as their own. This process helps parents better understand and respond to their child's behavior in appropriate and sensitive ways.