This Parenting Thing is No Joke
Does your child:
Easily get triggered
Have frequent or intense meltdowns aka "temper tantrums"
Avoid listening and doing what is asked of them
Get angry when she doesn't get her way
Act out in public
Frequently get in trouble at home and/or school
Do you:
Feel exhausted by your child's behavior
Find yourself yelling and threatening in order to get your child to listen
Argue with your partner about parenting
Wish for a better relationship with your child
Worry about your child's behavior at school/daycare
Struggle to know what to do to help
Want to spend more time playing and laughing together and less time arguing
Wish for more joy in your relationship and in your life
Are you:
Open to learning about some alternatives to traditional behavioral approaches?
Easily get triggered
Have frequent or intense meltdowns aka "temper tantrums"
Avoid listening and doing what is asked of them
Get angry when she doesn't get her way
Act out in public
Frequently get in trouble at home and/or school
Do you:
Feel exhausted by your child's behavior
Find yourself yelling and threatening in order to get your child to listen
Argue with your partner about parenting
Wish for a better relationship with your child
Worry about your child's behavior at school/daycare
Struggle to know what to do to help
Want to spend more time playing and laughing together and less time arguing
Wish for more joy in your relationship and in your life
Are you:
Open to learning about some alternatives to traditional behavioral approaches?
Are you often at the end of your rope?
Parenting is hard enough on its own. When you add in complicated behaviors and sensitivities, it can lead to a feeling of utter burnout. You have most likely already tried a multitude of strategies to try to improve the situation. It can feel as though you are banging your head against the wall.
You might feel judgment or pressure from your closest friends and family. If your child starts acting out at school, there can be the pressure of teachers and school administration to get the behaviors under control right away. You might even avoid the playground and social settings all together. This isolation increases that feeling of despair.
You might feel judgment or pressure from your closest friends and family. If your child starts acting out at school, there can be the pressure of teachers and school administration to get the behaviors under control right away. You might even avoid the playground and social settings all together. This isolation increases that feeling of despair.
There is hope
Through parent coaching, I help parents find solutions to their child's biggest problem behaviors. I will partner with you to implement new strategies to decrease problem behaviors and increase your child's well-being. I will help you strengthen the skills you already have while providing new and innovative strategies to fill up your parenting toolbox. Parents often report to me that by the end of our work together, they feel more confident and competent as a parent. They note positive changes in their relationship with their child including a renewed sense of love and adoration for their child.
Lessen the Stress and Increase the Peace
I offer Parent Coaching, parent-child therapy, family therapy and/or other types of play therapy. Services are based in attachment, mindfulness, and the latest brain research.
Innovative Parenting Approaches
There is no one-sized-fits-all approach for parenting. There is such a uniqueness to each and every family. We will partner together to find out what is and what is not working. I integrate the latest brain research, information on child development, mindfulness, and attachment into the work we do together.
Parent Coaching
If your child is experiencing any of the following, Parent Coaching may help!
- Aggression
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Deployment/Military Family
- Asked to leave Daycare/Preschool/Elementary School
- Oppositional and Defiant aka O.D.D.
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- School Issues
- Meltdowns aka "Temper Tantrums"
You are your child's favorite "Play Therapist"
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With parent coaching, you get to learn the tools of play therapy. This means that the child gets the benefit of play therapy every single day of the week! It is like taking a parenting class, except instead of sitting with a classroom of people and discussing parenting strategies, you receive individualized treatment that you get to practice live and in the moment with your child. We have parent sessions where we strategize and discuss new ways to approach behaviors and interactions. The majority of the sessions involve you and your child playing together. I have equipment that allows me to talk to you through a "bug in the ear" while you interact with your child. We then strategize how to implement this at home.
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