Welcome!
Thank you for taking a look at my website and what I can offer as a parent coach!
I come to parent coaching from more than a decade working with families as an Elementary School Counselor. That experience involved supporting parents often but I was limited in the extent of support due to my focus being about school. As a parent to two young kids myself, I am now even more aware of all the work that parenting requires as well as the societal pressures that are put on us. I am the parent to two children, one being a beautifully complex child who has (and continues to) push against all I thought I knew about parenting. As we have navigated various supportive therapies and systems it has become obvious that the biggest changes have come when we were able to accept and support our child where they are at, not where we think they should be.
As a parent coach, I am supporting and guiding you as a parent, the goal is not to give quick fixes to problem behaviors. That may be why you landed here but actual change takes time. Working with a parent coach helps you understand your family’s unique needs and layer in strategies and structures that work to meet those needs. We come up with these together, prescribed parenting programs may work for some but I have found that most of us take what works and leave the rest. My hope in our work together is to save you the time (and often money) on that journey towards your own version of parenting.
I have also experienced the complexity of having a medical challenge come up while I was in the thick of early childhood parenting. I will first call out that I was very privileged in my experience, which I will share in another blog post, but it is where the name for my company came from. Life was really hard, very challenging in many ways and my kids still made me belly laugh with their antics. My goal was to layer in joy as I could. I didn’t want to “find the silver lining” or just be grateful I was doing well. I wanted to know that I could hold both the hard and joyful as a part of life. Layering in joy is not toxic positivity but a way to accept that life is going to have challenges and joyful times all layered in together.
*Many of the rock pictures I share here are from a trip to The Wave out in Utah, some are taken by a dear friend Laura Hoffner. I will give credit to her amazing camera skills as much as I can!
Brianna
