Parent Coaching

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Parenting a child with unique needs can feel like you’re constantly shifting between translator, detective, and crisis negotiator. It’s exhausting - and you don’t have to do it alone.

As a licensed therapist and parent coach, I help parents of neurodivergent or traumatized children find practical tools, calm, and connection. Parent coaching isn’t about telling you what you “should” be doing! It’s about building strategies that fit your child’s nervous system, your family’s values, and your real-life challenges.

What Coaching Offers:

  • Tailored Strategies: Learn how to respond to meltdowns, transitions, and tricky behaviors with tools that actually work for your child’s brain and body.

  • Nervous System Support: Understand the “why” behind your child’s behaviors - so you can move from constant firefighting to calm, confident guidance.

  • Parent Skills that Stick: Practice language, routines, and repair strategies that help you feel more effective and less drained.

  • Healing and Connection: Whether trauma or neurodivergence shapes your child’s world, we’ll create ways to strengthen safety, trust, and joy in your relationship.

Why Work with a Coach?

Because sometimes the parenting books don’t cut it. You get someone who understands both the clinical side of child development and the messy, beautiful realities of family life. Coaching sessions give you a compassionate space to be honest, get perspective, and walk away with tools that you can use today.

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    Parent Coordination

    Separation and divorce can leave parents feeling pulled in different directions, while children are caught in the middle. Parent coordination offers a structured, therapeutic process to help resolve conflict, improve communication, and create stability for your child. I provide neutral, child-focused guidance that helps co-parents reduce tensions between households, develop clear, consistent parenting agreements and routines, stay focused on the child’s needs, and build a cooperative co-parenting relationship.

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    Individual Support

    Maybe you're fed up with constant power struggles, or you're done with the meltdowns.  You've read every book and tried every reward, and nothing changes.  Get off the behavior/strategy treadmill! Let's work together to understand what these behaviors really are and how to best manage them.  (Spoiler alert -  It has nothing to do with bad parenting or having a bad kid!)  I will teach you new ways to connect to and communicate with your child, enhancing your relationship with them, and allowing them to have improved relationships with others.

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    Sleep Support

    Tired of being tired?!  Of course you are!  When your child's sleep is disrupted, everyone struggles.  Children with vulnerable nervous systems (whether because of neurodiversity, trauma, or who even knows) can often struggle with sleep, and it can take a village to get back on a regular sleep schedule.  I can help you create a plan that works for your family and make sure that everyone is getting the sleep that they need.

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    Picky Eating Support

    Tired of feeling like a short-order cook?!  Is your child eating an all beige diet, and you really want them to try new foods?  This is so common for kids with vulnerable nervous systems.  AND their tolerance can grow!  I can help you to create a plan that will respect your child's sensory needs and make food fights a thing of the past.  Whether your child has been diagnosed with ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) or your child is resistant to change, we can absolutely create new routines and habits.  It's never too late to start building a healthy relationship with food!

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    Potty Training Support

    Stressed out about toilet training your neurodiverse or highly sensitive child?  Makes sense!  The books were written for neurotypical kids, and your child needs a more individualized approach.  I can help you create a potty training plan that works for your child, keeping in mind their unique needs.  We will work through the anxiety (yours and theirs!) to ditch the diapers once and for all.

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    Group Support

    Stop playing behavior whack-a-mole with your child’s most baffling behaviors by finally addressing the real problem!  This 10-week course will teach you what behavior really is, and how to change it.  Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors:  A Course for Parents is based on the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human.  This course will make your child’s behavior make sense - even the ones that don’t.  You’ll become equipped with interventions, tools, and techniques - that actually work! And in this no-shame, no blame approach to parenting, you’ll finally understand why knowing is only half the battle.

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