Video: Surviving in a House of Chaos: Take Back Control with Effective Parenting

featuring Tonya Ratliff, LPC, NCC, ACS

Tonya Ratliff is the Owner and Director of Counseling Services for Trinity Family Counseling Center.

Having raised five children of her own, Tonya knows from personal experience that being a good parent is A LOT of hard work. Effective parenting requires unwavering commitment, diligence and perseverance. It requires the ability to find energy when you don’t think you have any left. It requires placing the needs of others before your own.

Tonya enjoys working with parents to improve or strengthen their own parenting efforts.

Tonya believes that implementing structure, maintaining consistency and managing expectations combine to form what she calls the Three Pillars of Effective Parenting. These principles apply to children of all ages, though the younger the child, the easier these principles are to implement the first time.

In her private counseling practice, Tonya focuses her efforts on educating and empowering parents to take back control of their household by implementing these basic techniques of effective parenting. Making these types of changes will not occur overnight. Sustained change takes time and practice.