About Parent Coaching
Parent coaching equips you with the tools, strategies, and support needed to successfully navigate the complexities of raising a child with ADHD.
What is Parent Coaching?
Parent coaching is a collaborative process that empowers parents to learn new strategies, set goals, and take action to improve their family dynamics. Parent coaching is future-focused and designed to help parents overcome challenges, learn new skills, and positively change their relationships with their children.
A PCI Certified Parent Coach® offers personalized guidance and support, helping parents find practical strategies for their unique situations.
This includes helping parents whose children face the following challenges:
Struggles with executive function
Emotional dysregulation
Difficulties staying organized at home and in school
Acting impulsively
Hyperactivity
Difficulty with transitions
Procrastination
How it Works
Our parent coaches are available to meet with individual parents, caregivers, spouses, partners, and co-parents via telephone or online video meetings. In these sessions, we’ll discuss your specific challenges, explore solutions, and lay out actionable steps tailored to your family’s needs.
After you submit an initial inquiry, we’ll contact you to learn more and arrange sessions according to your schedule. Sessions typically last an hour, and most clients meet on a routine basis (e.g., weekly or bi-monthly), depending on their goals and progress.
Parent Coaching Options
Parent Coaching Toolkit—10 Hours: This package includes ten hours of customized parent coaching and engaging evidence-based PowerPoint presentations.
Parent Coaching Toolkit—6 Hours: This package includes six hours of customized parent coaching and engaging evidence-based PowerPoint presentations.
Common Questions
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A PCI Certified Parent Coach® is a highly trained individual who completed the rigorous graduate-level parent coach training through the Parent Coaching Institute in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University.
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A PCI Certified Parent Coach® “helps you discover constructive ways to address a situation that may be causing you some concern, assists you in identifying your goals, and helps you with designing action steps to attain them”. (Source: Parent Coaching Institute)
A Parent Educator generally provides specific skills and strategies through an organized, programmatic delivery of information such as a parenting class or group presentation.
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Therapy assumes the client needs healing.
Coaching assumes the client is higher functioning.Therapy focuses on feelings, past events; past orientation.
Coaching focuses on action and the future; goal-orientation.Therapy focuses on the root of problems.
Coaching focuses on solving problems.Therapy works with people to achieve self-understanding and emotional healing.
Coaching works to bring clients to a higher level of functioning.Therapy works for internal resolution of pain and to let go of old patterns.
Coaching works for solutions to overcome barriers, learn new skills & implement effective choices.
Source: Hayden, C. J., and Whitworth, L. “Distinctions Between Coaching and Therapy.” International Association of Personal and Professional Coaches Newsletter, October 1995.
