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Parent Coaching


An Approach that is more than Tools or a Strategy that Transcends Ages and Stages. Support for Empowered, Connected Parenting.

Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Child Without Losing Yourself in the Process

Our work focuses specifically on you and your relationship with your child. Rather than quick-fix parenting hacks, I support you to develop long-term strategies rooted in neuroscience, attachment science, and emotional development.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or struggling with self-criticism, parent coaching supports you to build emotional resilience, self-trust, and healthier relationships.

Parent coaching can help you:

  • Respond calmly instead of reacting

  • Navigate your child’s big emotions and challenging behaviour

  • Build secure attachment

  • Break reactive parenting cycles

  • Feel more confident in your parenting decisions

  • Make decisions that are aligned with your deeply held values rather than from guilt, pressure or overwhelm

  • Move from control and correction to connection, leadership and collaborationUnderstand how your childhood experiences impact your parenting

  • Work alongside your child rather than against them to build skills, resilience and a strong relationship

  • Supporting parents to develop emotional regulation, self-awareness, and confidence.

Parent coaching is especially helpful for those who:

  • Want a deeper connection with their child

  • Want a relationship characterised that will weather storms, characterised by trust, deep love & collaboration.

  • Mothers who identify as empathic and sensitive

  • Mothers who feel overwhelmed, irritated and a lack of joy in parenting

  • Mothers who have a difficult relationship with their own mother, feel undernurtured or undermothered

  • Request a Confidential Parent Coaching Consultation

Why Coaching Works

We all have blind spots. Reflection is a key part to making any changes in our life. Research shows that the quality of our own early parenting shapes our future relationships.

It also shows that this can be changed with reflection and making sense of our stories.

These patterns are often implicit, that is they can occur beyond our conscious awareness.

They are often learned before we can walk and talk. Or they are so habitual to us and our family system that we keep doing what is familiar (even when it’s not serving us).

Frustratingly wanting is not enough.

We can desperately want something but if we don’t engage in a more active and constructive reflective process then we end up in the same cycles.

This is where coaching comes in.

A coach reflects back to you patterns that may or may not serve you. We acknowledge that you are not broken, there’s nothing to ‘fix’, you are doing the best you can with the tools you have.

We create stepping stones from where you are now to where you want to be.

It can feel awkward at first to show up bravely and vulnerably in trying something new. But eventually it will just become the new way you do things.

This is my wish for you- that over time the change that you long to see will become effortless.

  • "Teasing out my long held beliefs and behaviours, their triggers and basis, was fundamental in instigating change."

    —Client, early 40s

  • “I would highly recommend this to any parent, especially those struggling with frustration, anger and exhaustion in their daily interactions”

    - Client, Dad of three

  • "Having Shani guide me through the parenting program was an insightful journey. It helped me to understand my core values, along with identifying how I was parented has affected how I parent."

    — Client, Woman in 40s

  • "I have become better at leaving my own baggage at the door, creating more calm and connection in all the relationships in our home and family"

    - Client, Mum of two

  • "As someone who was resistant to any form of parent coaching, I have found the intensive program with Shani outstanding in helping me to understand clearly myself and my frames, and develop the tools to be a more calm and connected Dad."

    - Client, Dad in his 30s

“Together we unpick the tangled threads so you can weave your own story”

FULL 12 week PROGRAM DETAILS

Those of you wanting to do a deep dive into your patterns & build a richer, more compassionate relationship with yourself and your children. This will often have broader, positive flow on effects to your other relationships and truly is a long term investment. You can revisit this content, delving deeper into your personal growth as you are called to.

  • Build your capacity to understand your own needs, to get them met as well as how your patterns help or hinder this

  • How to parent from your values and how this forms your parenting lighthouse

  • How children make sense of their world

  • How our children’s nervous system works and how the relationship with their parent or primary caregiver is crucial in nervous system regulation

  • How the quality of connection and attention from you impacts our child and their relationship blueprint

  • How to communicate with your child and partner using a process that defuses tension and communicates your needs in collaboration rather than confrontation

  • How to parent with love and leadership – how to hold boundaries and consequences with compassion

  • Emotional intelligence - what it is and how to increase it

  • Understanding our child’s world to reduce stress and make our parenting more effective and peaceful

  • Increase attunement, joy and creativity in your parenting!

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