“What is all this juice and all this joy?”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Parent Coaching

I trust your good thinking.

Bring your stuck spots, and we’ll open new paths to connection with your kid.

How my approach feels:

  • compassionate support for your parenting values and your best path toward whole-hearted parenting— no blame or shame!

  • collaborative: we’ll mind the gap between the parent you want to be and how you show up everyday, building in necessary pauses and powerful tools to help you orient and steer closer to how you want to feel as the leader of your family

  • attachment-focused guidance for regulating yourself and keeping your stress managed more steadily, so you can be a sturdy resource for your child in the midst of storms

  • action-oriented, with smart strategies to use between sessions, so you can see progress as we go

  • super-resourceful, with video resources, blogs & podcast episodes to explore at your pace

  • led by brain science and regulation research, so we’re not spit-balling it—we’re dialing in your personal recipe for attunement and connection to sustain you over time, as a parent and a whole person

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Reach out with Questions

  • I'm always happy to offer a free brief phone consult for prospective clients. If you'd like to connect that way, book a 15-min call here.

  • If you’re ready to get started with shifting how things feel in your family, see available dates for a parent session (1 hour) $250

  • I LOVE putting heads and hearts together with preschool parents, early childhood educators, and school staff.

    If you’re open to understanding how noticing the nervous system, boosting connection, and empowering kids with sturdy limits can help them thrive—let’s talk about engaging your school community in an experiential workshop with practical tools you can use right away!

    Reach out HERE for a parent-teacher consult session.

FAQs

What’s included in a consult?

We’ll spend 1 hour together on Zoom:

1) You'll share about family strengths and stuck spots.

2) We'll connect some dots and make sense of the behaviors or challenges showing up.

3) I'll offer some fresh perspective from the context of child development, family dynamics, and the brain science of behavior.

4) You'll leave with 1-2 practical things to try right away.

What kind of families do you see?

My areas of specialty include child development consultation, adoption and foster care dynamics, and neurodiversity in parenting. I frequently work with families preparing for adoption, blended/step-families, or needing help with school advocacy. I really enjoy working with folks navigating neurodivergence (ADHD, autistic, and twice-exceptional traits, highly sensing, super-creative, sensory focused, and more—in yourself, your kids, or both).

If your child already has a therapist for play therapy, ADHD coaching, or other support, let’s chat about how focusing on your own support and parenting experience may be a good supplement.

What’s your approach?

The ways I work with families emerge from a combination of attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and playful parenting. I’m creative and neurodiverse, so I bring this lens to parenthood through gentle structure, buckets of flexible tools, and practical strategies for navigating big behaviors.

I see our work as a partnership built on collaboration and mutual respect. I won’t tell you what to do, but I will share how I’m seeing things and expect you’ll do the same. I regard you as the expert on your child; together we can develop your tools for decoding their behavior and meeting your own needs in the mix.

Are you a parent?

I am! And it’s a big part of my identity and worldview. I share a fabulous teenager with my partner of 24 years. Our giant puppy rounds out our family and keeps us laughing & snuggling!

Do you get what teachers need?

I do! Much of my study and training over the past 5 years has been toward connecting big behaviors in the classroom to supports from the fields of child development, neurodiversity, and the traum-informed schools movement.

I began my career as a preschool and high school teacher before a graduate degree in psychology. I’m excited to bring these fields together through advocacy for your child’s learning needs and practical support for teachers.

“But sometimes children do not connect or reconnect so easily.

They may feel so isolated that they retreat into a corner, or come out aggressively with both arms swinging.

They may be annoying, obnoxious, or downright infuriating as they try desperately to signal us that they need more connection.

These situations call for creating more playtime,
not doling out punishment or leaving the lonely child all alone.”


― Lawrence J. Cohen, Playful Parenting