Guiding you as you guide them
Early Parent Coaching
Specializing in parenting children from birth to age 5
We will utilize education, awareness, reflection, play based strategies and outdoor based strategies to enhance your current parent/child relationship.
Attachment
Attachment is all about the emotional bond that forms within the relationship with your child that helps them feel more secure. This important aspect of relationship is established in the parent/child bond and carried into future relationships. Through my training and experience in attachment therapy we can build on and enhance your current attachment to support you in your parent child attachment relationship.
Bedtime
If you are having struggles with bedtime and it seems to be a constant struggle, we can work together to find some new solutions and strategies. Connection and play will be powerful tools that we can utilize to help with any bedtime battles that happen and leave you feeling less frustrated.
Tantrums
They can be triggering, frustrating and exhausting. We can work together to reduce the triggers for tantrums, how to best cope with them and look at what is going on in your child’s brain. Offering you strategies like a time in and ways to encourage regulation and connection will leave you less frustrated and more able to cope.
Discipline
We can look at the difference between permissive, authoritarian and authoritative discipline and how to shift what currently is not working. Gentle parenting strategies will also be shared that encourage empathy, respect, understanding and boundaries. Different parenting influences can be explored that have informed your current parenting and develop and awareness and understanding of what currently is effective or ineffective and where that comes from.
Structure, Routine and Boundaries
These three things can make a huge difference in struggles that you are having and anxiety in children. Children need structure, routine, and boundaries to thrive, but will also push against all of these things. We will work together to establish your role as the parent in charge and how to transform your home to create more peace and calm.
Outdoor Strategies
For children and adults, the ability to be outdoors and use it as a tool can offer something powerful for our brains. We will establish some simple ways to integrate the outdoors into your family life to enhance what you are already doing. Having some outdoor strategies will also encourage regulation and utilize play, which is one of your most powerful tools with children.