Parent Coaching 

 Parenting is one of the most rewarding and most challenging journeys you will ever experience. One that comes with no instructions, no blueprint, and often no support. Amanda offers parent coaching from a therapeutic perspective as a way to help you feel supported and well equipped for the marathon that is parenthood.

 When children have problems, sometimes they don’t have the words to talk about them. Play gives children a way to communicate feelings they don’t understand or can’t express any other way. Play therapy techniques have been shown to be an effective intervention with children for a variety of behavioral and emotional difficulties. 

Parent coaching can address the following concerns:

• Childhood development and how parenting strategies can be applied to each stage

• Toddler tantrums (dis-regulation)

• Navigating different neurodivergent identities under one roof

• understanding your neurodivergent child

• Improving the parent child connection

• Improving communication between parents and teens

• Supporting parents and children through tough transitions such as divorce or grief

• Managing difficult household dynamics such as adding new family members through birth or marriage.

• Helping families to cope and thrive when a loved one has a mental illness.

• Helping families to cope and thrive when a family member has sensory processing disorder or other neurodivergent identities.

• Helping families to have fun and enjoy each other's company again.

Parent Coaching from a therapeutic perspective can:

Reduce or eliminate behavior problematic interactions between parent and child

Enhance the parent-child relationship and the marital relationship

Develop responsibility and self-control in children (and parents)

Increase parent's and children’s self-esteem and self-confidence

Increase parents’ feelings of warmth for their children

Therapeutic Parent Training can be done on its own or as a part of the play therapy process.  The atmosphere is friendly and accepting and the training interactive, making it enjoyable and interesting.

Some of the things you will learn include:

How to help your child open up to you

Therapeutic limit-setting

Recognizing emotional needs and building self-esteem

Fostering creativity, self-control, and self-responsibility for both parent and child.

How your past experiences may be influencing the way you parent and how to offer healing to both yourself and your child.  

“The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more that what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them.  They remember what you are” ------Jim Henson