Why Parenting Coaching?
As a parent, it can feel overwhelming and exhausting to deal with frequent emotional outbursts, defiance, or challenging behaviours from your child. You may feel unsure how to respond effectively, afraid that your reactions might escalate the situation, or even feel like you’re failing as a parent. The truth is, these challenges often stem from unmet emotional needs, and with the right guidance, you can create a calmer, more positive relationship with your child while teaching them better ways to regulate their emotions.
A positive and secure parent-child relationship is the foundation for a child’s emotional, social, and cognitive development. When a child feels safe, valued, and understood, they develop strong self-esteem, emotional resilience, and the ability to form healthy relationships in the future. A secure attachment with a parent provides a sense of stability, helping children navigate life’s challenges with confidence. It also fosters open communication, allowing children to express their thoughts and emotions freely, knowing they will be met with understanding and support. This emotional security is crucial in shaping a child’s ability to regulate their feelings, cope with stress, and develop a strong sense of identity.
For parents, cultivating a secure relationship with their child creates a more harmonious and fulfilling family dynamic. When a parent understands and responds to their child’s emotional needs with patience and empathy, they build trust, deepen their bond and provides the child with a positive role model. This positive relationship allows parents to guide their children more effectively, instilling important values, emotional intelligence, and problem-solving skills. Ultimately, a strong parent-child connection lays the groundwork for lifelong emotional well-being, equipping both parent and child to navigate life’s ups and downs together with love and resilience.
My expertise:
With over 20 years of experience as a qualified social worker, I have dedicated my career to supporting foster carers and parents in navigating the complexities of challenging behaviours. My trauma-informed practice focuses on helping you:
- Understand behaviours and attachment style challenges
- Identify when trauma impacts these behaviours and attachment styles
- Recognize how these behaviours impact both your child and yourself as caregiver
- Learn to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively in high-stress moments
Through my work, I have seen families experience transformative changes. Parents have successfully applied the strategies I provide, resulting in calmer households, stronger parent-child relationships, and significant improvements in their children’s behaviour. My extensive training and hands-on experience ensure that I bring both expertise and empathy to every coaching session, guiding parents toward long-term success and harmony within their families.
Uniqueness:
My coaching approach is designed specifically for parents who are navigating challenging behaviours and emotional outbursts. My process is a blend of emotional discovery and strategic action.
We work to understanding the root causes: We go beyond surface-level behaviours to explore the underlying emotional triggers and unmet needs driving your child’s actions.
We tailor your parenting strategies: I provide proven, practical tools that are personalized to fit your child’s temperament and your family dynamics.
We work on emotional regulation: Learn techniques to help your child build emotional resilience while staying calm and confident yourself in high-stress situations.
You get parent-cantered support: We also focus on your emotional well-being, equipping you with the mindset and strategies to feel grounded and capable in your parenting.
This is a collaborative process: Coaching sessions are interactive and adaptive, allowing us to tackle new challenges as they arise.
Coaching offer
My Coaching Off
Tier 1 – Foundations of Understanding
4 weeks of weekly sessions
Who it’s for: Parents seeking a foundational understanding and immediate tools for navigating emotional and behavioural challenges and for achieving quick wins with practical strategies. This sets the stage for long-term progress.
By the end of this stage, you will have established a solid understanding of your child’s behaviour and you will be equipped with foundational strategies to manage challenging situations.
What we’ll do in these sessions:
- Define your child’s challenging behaviours
- Explore how these behaviours impact both you and your child and anyone else close to you
- Explore potential causes of the behaviours such as trauma and attachment issues
- Identify emotional triggers—for both you and your child. Identify your fears and inner blocks that can sabotage how you respond to your child.
- Discover your strengths
- Learn practical strategies for managing emotional outbursts and defiance in the moment.
What is included:
- One initial phone call/video chat of up to 30mins to define your goals and challenges.
- 4 weeks of weekly coaching sessions (up to 60 minutes per session).
- Foundational Toolkit for Parenting Challenges tailored to your family’s needs.
What is included:
- One initial phone call and a follow up video chat of up to 60mins to define your goals and challenges.
- 8 weeks of weekly coaching sessions (up to 60 minutes per session).
- Email communication between sessions
- Tailored solutions to overcome your family’s unique challenges
- Specialized Support (optional): If we identify that past trauma, chronic depression, or anxiety is impacting your parenting and affecting your progress, you will have access to an initial psychotherapy assessment completed by a qualified and experienced psychotherapist. An initial psychotherapy assessment can be made available to your child as well.
- Optional: one 30-minute phone call between sessions to address any urgent behavioral challenges or unforeseen hurdles that arise on the same day.
Tier 2 – Transforming the Connection
8 weeks of weekly sessions
Who it’s for: Parents ready to address deeper emotional and relational challenges while fostering long-term positive change.
By the end of this stage, you’ll feel ready to handle parenting challenges with confidence, start to deepen the parent-child relationship and initiate positive and lasting change leading to stronger emotional connections
What you gain:
- You build on the foundations of Tier 1 deeper exploration of trauma-informed parenting
- Explore and maximise your support network
- Strengthen your confidence as a parent, addressing your own emotional needs, and reducing the risk of burnout
- Empowerment Guide: we are building a set of strategies to overcome fears and self-doubt at every stage of your transition. We’ll identify strategies to keep you confident and motivated through any challenges
- Create a step-by-step plan for responding to emotional outbursts in a way that fosters trust and growth
- Learn to set healthy boundaries while maintaining empathy and connection
Tier 3 – The Empowered Parenting Blueprint
5 months (weekly sessions until the completion of Tier 1&2 and monthly sessions afterwards)
Who it’s for: Parents who want to continue to learn and develop and are committed to stay resilient in the face of challenges and overcome obstacles with the aim of creating a better, more harmonious family environment.
Long-term support, accountability, and flexibility are key components for your success.
Long-term coaching has unique benefits: support through unforeseen challenges, and the ability to course-correct as needed.
What you’ll achieve:
- Sessions build on the insights from Tier 1 and Tier 2 with adjusted strategies for maintaining progress and tackling new challenges as they arise.
- Accountability: helping you to remain focused and accountable at each stage of the development of your parent – child relationship
- Teaching you how to tech your child long-term emotional regulation skills and helping them build resilience by empowering you to model positive communication and problem-solving approach
- If you get stuck, sessions can be increased to 2 / month at no extra cost, to help you overcome the blocks
What is included:
- An initial phone/video call of up to 60 mins to define your goals and challenges.
- Weekly coaching sessions as per Tier 1 & 2 and monthly sessions of up to 75 minutes per session thereafter for a total of 6 months.
- If you encounter significant challenges, session frequency can be increased to twice a month at no extra cost to help you overcome obstacles.
- Specialized Mental Health Support (optional): Unresolved trauma constitutes a major block in achieving your goals and many people find it difficult to even acknowledge it, however, healing from it is essential for achieving success. This is why, in addition to the initial psychotherapy assessment, you can access at no extra cost to you up to 4 psychotherapy sessions, provided by a qualified and experienced psychotherapist. This support will provide you with additional tools to address underlying issues, such as trauma or mental health concerns, that may be hindering your ability to move forward in your career. These sessions are designed to complement the career coaching process and ensure that you feel emotionally supported as you take steps toward your goals. You also have the option to transfer these free sessions to your child if you wish to.
- Email communication between sessions for additional support.
- A weekly accountability phone call of up to 30 mins between sessions to keep you on track
- Optional: a 30-minute phone call between sessions to address any urgent matters that arise on the same day.
