As a parent you may experience uncertainty, worry, anxiety or depressive symptoms during or after the baby is born. The infant may cry a lot or be restless or difficult to calm down or have challenges with sleeping and eating.
Therapeutic work for families with infants supports the interaction between the parent and the baby and the baby's development. Parents have the opportunity to work on their parenting skills, as well as their relationship with the infant, their partner and other loved ones.
Our forms of work include meetings with a parent and a baby as well as couple, family and group meetings. If necessary, we can make home visits.
We offer therapeutic work for families with infants if the support provided by family members or maternity and child health clinics and other basic services is not enough.
If you are interested in therapeutic work for families with infants, please contact social counselling for families with children or submit an application in Maisa.
Send a message via Maisa by selecting Social Services > Submit an Application/Services for families with children. We will respond to you within three working days. If we cannot reach you by phone, you will get a reply in Maisa.
You can also send a message using the 'Need help?' online form.
You can apply for therapeutic work for families with infants during your 20th pregnancy week, at the earliest.
The service is free of charge.
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Use the online service
Maisa online service
1. Go to Maisa's front page and log in by using the Suomi.fi identification service. If you have downloaded the app on your phone, you can also log into Maisa from there.
2. Select Menu and Social Services from the dropdown menu.
3. Select Application/contact services for families with children.
4. Click Make an application and follow the instructions.
We will respond to you within three working days. If we cannot reach you by phone, we will message you in Maisa.
Call us
Social counseling telephone service for families with children in Finnish
Social counseling telephone service for families with children in Swedish
The Swedish-speaking call centre is available on Mondays. However, you can also call us and leave a call request on other days.
