Coaching Services
Parent coaching is designed to provide insight, help parents discover newfound energy in their parenting, develop an appreciation for what they have and who they are, and create sustainable ways to achieve their vision or dream for their family. Different than therapy, coaching’s unique methodology allows the coach to provide support as a cheerleader, guide, and mirror. Coaching is perfect for helping parents who are feeling overwhelmed, parents who are baffled by their children’s behavior, parents who are looking to bolster their parenting “tool box,” and parents who simply want to take their family’s life from good to great. I offer many different types of parent coaching packages as described below.
CHALLENGES WE MIGHT ADDRESS:
- Parenting effectively through behavior issues including defiance, tantrums, and sibling rivalry
- Developing a healthy family media culture
- Time management, routines, and schedules
- Parent stress, self-care, and mindful parenting
- The health of the marital/co-parenting relationship
- Co-parenting after a divorce or separation and parenting blended families
- Raising a spirited or gifted child
- And many, many more!
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The Inspired Family - Full Coaching Experience
This package, is for parents looking to create transformative and sustainable change in order to bring more joy and connection to their families and create an enriching environment for the optimal growth and development of both children and parents alike. Over the next 6 months, we work collaboratively to build a deeper understanding and appreciation for what is and is not working in your family system, visualize a clear picture of your ideal future for both self and family, and then work backwards from that ideal to design specific action steps that will help you achieve your dream. Over the course of our relationship, we work to find individualized solutions that work for your family using my signature process that combines coaching with education, support with accountability, and solutions with perspective shifts.
Trusting that you are the expert on your family, our work will guide and support you in fostering a deeper connection between family members, building increased confidence in parenting decisions, and cultivating more peace and calmness at home.
This coaching package includes:
- Eighteen 45-minute sessions over 6 months including one or both parents.
- Bonus – One Hour Launch Session to establish coaching relationship, assess and review client needs, goals and values, and establish an individualized plan for your transformational journey.
- Bonus – Two 30-minute Family Practice Sessions where I observe and guide parents using their new strategies in action. To be used during the first 6 months of coaching.
- Bonus - Three 15-minute support calls, available to use anytime within one year of the commencement of coaching.
- Compassionate support and safe space to address any parenting and family-life challenges.
- Coaching via Zoom, with the option to record any of our sessions for later review in your Private Client Portal.
- Unlimited access to your coach during our coaching relationship via your Private Client Portal.
- A secured Private Client portal for all communication and access to notes, post session summaries, assessments, and “homework” during your coaching relationship.
- Access to Family Exercises, Assessments and Tools to deepen your transformation.
- Priority Registration for parenting development workshops and classes.
Schedule a Complimentary Create Your Inspired Family Discovery Call today to discuss the best option for your family.
Spark the Inspiration - Jumpstart Coaching Experience
This package is designed for parents who need a jumpstart or are struggling with just one or two parenting issues that they would like help addressing with the support and guidance of a coach. Over approximately 3 months, we work together to identify the source of the struggles, evaluate and clarify the reasons for the issue/misbehaviors, and explore solutions designed to optimize the parent-child dynamic. In a more concentrated, limited manner than available through the Inspired Family Full Coaching Experience, we will explore what is and is not working, visualize a clear picture of the parent’s ideal result, and then create a plan with specific action steps that parents will be able to implement on their own.
Just as in The Inspired Family Full Coaching Experience, we begin with the understanding and belief that you are the expert on your family. Our work together will guide and support you in finding sustainable solutions to the issues at hand, all while fostering a deeper connection between family members, building increased confidence in parenting decisions, and cultivating more peace and calmness at home.
This coaching package includes:
- Nine 45-minute sessions over 3 months including one or both parents.
- Bonus – One Hour Launch Session to establish coaching relationship, assess and review client needs, goals and values, and establish an individualized plan for your transformational journey.
- Bonus - One 15-minute support call, available to use anytime within one year of the commencement of coaching.
- Compassionate support and safe space to address any parenting and family-life challenges.
- Coaching via Zoom, with the option to record any of our sessions for later review in your Private Client Portal.
- Unlimited access to your coach during our coaching relationship via your Private Client Portal.
- A secured Private Client portal for all communication and access to notes, post session summaries, assessments, and “homework” during your coaching relationship.
- Access to Family Exercises, Assessments and Tools to deepen your transformation.
- Priority Registration for parenting development workshops and classes.
Schedule a Complimentary Create Your Inspired Family Discovery Call today to discuss the best option for your family.
Be Inspired - Support Session
Are you struggling with a parenting issue and just need some immediate help and advice? Sometimes we just need an outside perspective to help us better assess a situation, come up with creative solutions and, ultimately, connect better with our kids. Work with me for 90 minutes to sort through what is going on, discover what some of the causes may be, and walk away with 2-3 concrete strategies to try to address the situation.
This coaching package includes:
- One 80-minute coaching session with one or both parents.
- Compassionate support and a safe place to address the parenting issue you are struggling with most.
- Coaching via Zoom, with the option to record the session for later review in your Private Client Portal.
- A secured Private Client portal for all communication and access to notes, post session summaries, assessments, and “homework” during your coaching relationship.
- You walk away with at least 2-3 strategies you can use immediately and, when appropriate, recommendations for science-based parenting information, external resource, and additional sources of support.
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WHO SHOULD HIRE A PARENT COACH?
The wonderful thing about coaching is how many different types of parents it can help. Coaching is for parents beset by feelings of overwhelm and struggle, parents baffled by their child’s behavior, parents looking to bolster their parenting “tool box”, parents committed to parenting intentionally and examining their own parenting choices, and/or parents simply looking to take their family’s life from good to great. It’s for parents that have read every parenting book out there and are struggling to make sense of them or find what works for them, and parents who have no time or interest in reading any parenting books and do better working one-on-one with a guide. Coaching is as individualized as the client!
HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK?
As a coach, I work collaboratively and co-constructively with my clients to help them live into their best selves and their ideal futures for themselves, their children, and their family as a whole. I help my clients identify what is currently working in their homes and help them figure out ways to “grow the positives.” I am energized by each of my clients and this helps me to show up and be present as my true self as I provide accountability and action steps to help you realize your dream future. We will spend time identifying your unique strengths and how we can harness those strengths to tackle whatever challenges you are facing. And although I have knowledge and training, we will work together to craft solutions that work for you and your family; after all, you are the expert on your family just as I am the expert on mine. I may make suggestions or provide information where needed, but I will never dictate how things should be done. You and I will be in partnership throughout the change process as we craft creative, sustainable, and sometimes outside-the-box solutions so that you can experience long-term success.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARENT COACHING AND THERAPY?
In truth, there can be many similarities between them depending on the style of any given practitioner in either field. However, as a general matter, therapy is focused on interpersonal health and identifiable issues, such as depression or anxiety. Its attention tends to be retrospective, addressing and repairing damage from earlier experiences. In contrast, coaching is typically future based, and tends to be more “goal directed, action based, and outwardly defined.” In coaching, the coach and client tend to work in a collaborative partnership where, although the coach may have expertise and make suggestions, the solutions are generated as a team within which the client takes responsibility for his or her own process and outcomes. Coaching provides more flexibility in theory and practice to help spur clients into action and move them forward in a positive direction. For more information see Hart, V. et al. (2001). “Coaching Versus Therapy: A Perspective.” Consulting Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 53 (No. 4), pp 229-37.
Schedule a Complimentary Create Your Inspired Family Discovery Call today to discuss the best option for your family.
