“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:

  • collaborative: prioritizing your your needs and parenting values — no blame or shame!

  • empowering: we’ll shrink the gap between the parent you want to be and how you’re showing up, building in playfulness, pauses and powerful tools to help you feel like a leader in your family

  • grounding: I’ll help you manage your stress and respond so you can be a sturdy resource for your child in the midst of storms

  • action-oriented, with smart strategies and practical tools, so you can see progress as we go

  • rooted: we’ll fold in child development, brain science, and attachment research as anchors for perspective and next steps

  • resourceful: blogs & podcast episodes to explore at your pace

  • personalized: no cookie-cutter parenting here—we’re fine tuning your family recipe for cooperation, sustaining you and your kids

Reach out with Questions

  • You’re welcome to book a free brief phone consult to share what kind of support you’re looking for. I’m happy to answer any questions you have and share about how what I do might line up with what you’re looking for. We’ll decide together if it makes sense to schedule a longer conversation.

    Book a 15-min call here

  • If you’re ready to get started with shifting how things feel in your family, you’re welcome to find a date on my consultation calendar.

    See available dates here for a parent session (1 hour) $250, by video

  • I LOVE collaborating with preschool parents, teachers, and school staff.

    Let’s chat about engaging your community in an experiential workshop with practical tools you can use right away!

    Here are some of my most popular topics:

    🛑 Limits That Land

    💥 Unsticking Power Struggles

    📣 How to Stop Yelling!

    🥊 Defusing Aggression

    🌀 Making Sense of BIG Behaviors

    Reach Out Here to request a talk for your school or parent group.

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