Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching – How Impactful is Parenting?
Parenting is challenging. Your children can simultaneously be your biggest joy and biggest stressor. It sometimes feels like they were created to test your patience, push boundaries and highlight all of your own insecurities and weaknesses.
Your parenting approach is impacted by your own parents’ approach. Your own upbringing influences your level of distress tolerance, your ability to regulate emotions, your reactions to conflict and how you communicate. I hear often from parents that they want to “do better” than they had, even if they had great parents. Experiences you had as a child that have not been transformed, will be transferred to your own children.
Discover the parent transformative power with Carly Harris, LMFT parent coaching!
What do parent coaching sessions include?
Parent coaching sessions will target the specific areas of parenting that you need support with. We will spend time talking through your unique challenges and begin by understanding what comes up for you when you face those challenges. We need to first work through what contributes to your struggle in parenting your child. Are you uncomfortable with anger or conflict because your own mom yelled frequently when you were younger? Do you feel flooded or overwhelmed when your child cries? Once we understand you as a person, we can then learn and practice the skills you need to feel more equipped as a parent.
Parent Coaching Qualifications
Carly has been supporting parents of children with challenging behavioral issues for the past eight years and coaching parents of young adults for the past five years. She uses her Attachment Based Family Therapy training and an Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) approach to teach emotion coaching and communication skills that will support adaptive parenting. Carly is also a parent herself, which lends an empathetic and authentic perspective to the support she gives other parents.
