Parenting is hard, and you are not meant to do it alone.  Here's how parent coaching can help:

Fine tune your existing skills

Develop your strengths

Identify challenges and areas of conflict within your family

Support you to create the change you want to see in your family

Provide strategies and tools that you can apply right away to build connection and cooperation with your child. 

Coaching is a relationship between equals.  I help guide and mentor you to become the parent you want to be.  I am not a healthcare provider.  Our relationship is more personal, I am able to share stories and insights from my own experience that you might find helpful.  I've been through the journey you're on now.  My role is to provide you with support, strategies, tools and encouragement as you begin to implement new strategies and techniques in your home.  You are the expert on your child.  We will work together to find the solutions that work for you and our family.  Counselling is a relationship based on overcoming obstacles due to a mental health disorder, such as anxiety or depression.  The counsellor is the professional and is expected to guide you to a deeper understanding and management of your mental health concerns.

If you are currently working with a counsellor, I am happy to support that relationship.

Coaching does have one thing in common with counselling:  all conversations are strictly confidential.

Anyone who is raising a child between the ages of birth and 18 years old who are struggling with their parenting.

Parents who want to parent differently than they were raised but need support to do so.  

Parents who worry that they yell too much.

Parents who are frustrated by ongoing issues or problems with their children.

Parents who want to use something other than bribes and threats to get their child to cooperate.

Sessions are held over the phone or online, via Zoom, depending on the parent's preference.

Your time is valuable and I would encourage you to consider scheduling sessions at a time when you don't need to directly supervise your child.  This will give you privacy and the opportunity to think and process without interruption.  I know it is challenging to find time without the kids around, so let's talk about scheduling a time that works best for you and your family when we have our first call.

Once you book a time that works for you, watch your inbox for a confirmation email.  You will receive a link to our online meeting.  You will click this link when it's time for our appointment.

If we are doing a phone session, I will call you at our scheduled session time.

Once the session begins we'll spend a few minutes getting to know each other and talk about the information you shared on your intake form.  You can ask any questions or get clarification at this time.  Then, we will discuss your current challenges, and hopes and goals for the future. 

At the end of the session, we will discuss if we are a good fit to work together.  If we're both on the same page, I'll ask you to book another session within 2 weeks time to discuss what our work together will look like.

I customize coaching sessions to the specific needs of each family.

The nature and longevity of the problem will determine how many coaching sessions would be appropriate.  There will likely be improvement after one or two sessions, but most families need to work with a coach for about six weeks to experience lasting change and reformations of habits.

While parent coaching is valuable, any type of coaching: parent coaching, relationship coaching, career coaching, life coaching is for the purpose of helping you grow as a person and achieve your desired outcomes through a process of gaining self-awareness, developing skills and strategies, and taking actionable steps forward.

Coaching assumes that you are fundamentally healthy and simply want to make positive changes, it's never considered a medically necessary treatment.

Coaching is exclusively focused on personal growth, self-development, and attaining personal and professional goals. 

Some Health Savings Accounts may reimburse parent coaching sessions, especially if a physician recommends coaching as part of the intervention for improving your child's behavioural concerns.  Please check with your provider prior to scheduling sessions.

To learn how to proactively solve problems when it comes to unwanted behaviour in your children.

Gain an understanding of age-appropriate behaviour for your child.

To feel more confident in your parenting skills.

To have tools and strategies that can be used for the rest of your parenting journey.