PARENT COACHING
As a coach, I serve as a support and trusted partner to parents who feel somehow stuck, stressed or disconnected within their family life or within interactions with their child. I provide structures and strategies to gently guide parents toward their own inner wisdom, understanding and growth. Each individual family has different strengths and challenges, so I structure my sessions and support to meet the needs of every unique family and its members. Through our sessions, parents discover new perspectives and strategies for bringing calm, connection and ease back to family life. They also develop a greater understanding of parenting that is aligned with psychological research, social-emotional development, brain science and neurodevelopment.
BUILDING KEY COMPETENCIES FOR GROWTH AS A PARENT
SELF-REFLECTION
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
Self-reflection is a powerful tool used in coaching. It helps you understand where you are, where you were, and where you want to be- especially when it comes to parenting. Through reflection, I can help you recognize the practices that get you closer to being the parent you truly want to be.
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
Perspective is the way we see the world. It comes from our personal point of view and it's been shaped by all our life experiences, values, our current state of mind, our assumptions, and a lot of other things. Through coaching, it is helpful to understand how we developed these ideas and how they shaped us as people and parents.
PRACTICE SKILLS
QUESTION PERSPECTIVES
EXAMINE UNDERLYING BELIEFS
Family life demands so much from us and our children need us in different ways as they grow and mature. No one is perfect. We all have to work on our parenting skills every step of the way. Parenting is a practice and having a coach alongside you provides additional tools for your toolbox.
EXAMINE UNDERLYING BELIEFS
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
EXAMINE UNDERLYING BELIEFS
Underlying Beliefs are the beliefs we have learned which are often automatic. These beliefs can be negative or positive. Together, we will examine Negative Underlying Beliefs that may be sabotaging your efforts.
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
Parents observe their children through a filter of conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes. In coaching, we can strip away filters that create misperceptions and misunderstandings. By questioning and reflecting, we can begin to see our children more clearly.
CELEBRATE THE BIG AND SMALL WINS
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS
It is so important to celebrate the small successes in parenting. As a coach, I am strongly committed to helping you stay oriented toward growth and solutions. I'll be cheering you on with every step!
COACHING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS
Children and teens both experience tremendous social and emotional growth and therefore have very specific developmental needs. Their brains are developing at a rapid pace which rivals that of toddlerhood. The pandemic has set up conditions which have been truly difficult for so many of our young people. At this crucial time, our children need social-emotional, behavioral and mental health support more than ever. As a coach, I provide them with much needed support, tools and encouragement for the many feelings, experiences and needs that are occurring during this often precarious, but exciting time.
As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than we already do. We need less guilt and more awareness of how the quality of the parent-child relationship can be used to promote our children’s emotional and cognitive development.
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