This paper presents a single counseling case study on a single mother in her late thirties that had a difficult time with emotional control to help her with parenting roles. The participant experienced difficulties with controlling her emotions after separation from her husband and sought personal counseling to find ways to control her emotions and play her roles as a single parent. The counselor figured out the background for the participant s problems with emotional control and tried to help her restore her emotional stability and fulfill her roles as a healthy single mother by encouraging her to realize the importance of emotional control and expression and change her communication. After getting consent from the participant, the researcher used the Satir counseling tool in Sessions 1~5 and the content of parent education in Susan Boyan & Ann Marie Termini s Cooperative Parenting and Divorce(2003) in Sessions 6~10. As the counseling went on, the analysis result showed that the participant looked into her wounds inflicted by her family of origin and the incongruent communication(survival) methods and gradually realized and practiced the importance of emotional control and expression. In conclusion, personal counseling provided to a homemaker in her thirties that wanted to play her roles as a single mother helped her with her sensory and emotional expression abilities and had positive effects on her self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-regulation process, thus bringing positive changes to her performance of parenting roles as a single parent.