Parent Coaching & Parenting Courses

When your child's big feelings and challenging behaviors have pushed you to your limit — we're here. Not to judge, but to help you understand what's happening and what actually works.

Parenting a Child With Big Behaviors Is Hard

If you're exhausted, confused, or at the end of your rope — you're not a bad parent. You're a parent who needs better tools and a deeper understanding of what's driving your child's behavior.

Our coaching program teaches you to see your child through the lens of their nervous system — and your own. When you understand why meltdowns happen and what the body is trying to communicate, everything shifts.

You'll learn to respond in ways that actually help your child regulate, connect, and grow — rather than escalating the very behaviors you're trying to change.

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Parent and child connecting

Course & Coaching Focus Areas

  • How your child's nervous system works (and why it matters)
  • Understanding your own nervous system as a caregiver
  • The science behind trauma and behavior
  • Practical co-regulation strategies for daily life
  • How to respond (not react) to challenging moments
  • Building connection before correction
  • Trauma-informed discipline that actually works
  • Managing children with significant behavioral challenges

Getting started is simpler than you think

1

Tell us what’s happening

A short, no-pressure conversation about your child, your household, and what’s been hardest lately. We’ll point you toward the course or one-on-one coaching, whichever fits.

2

Understand the why

Before strategies, understanding. We look at what your child’s nervous system is doing, what’s driving the behavior you’re seeing, and what your own stress response is adding to the mix.

3

Practice it at home

You leave with co-regulation strategies to try in real life, then we adjust together as your child grows and the challenges change.

Group course or one-on-one

Two ways in. Families often start with the course and add individual sessions when something specific needs untangling — but either is a fine place to begin.

Option one

Parenting Course

Our structured group course covers the foundations of trauma-informed parenting — the nervous system, behavior, regulation, and connection — in a supportive, community-based setting.

  • Learn alongside other parents who get it
  • Structured, start-to-finish curriculum
  • Ask us about upcoming dates
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Option two

Individual Parent Coaching

Need something more tailored? One-on-one coaching gives you personalized guidance for your specific child, your specific challenges, and the way your household actually runs.

  • Built around your child and your home
  • More intensive and more flexible
  • Good for urgent, stuck situations
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For an even deeper dive, we recommend visiting traumainformedparenting.org for additional trauma-informed parenting resources.

Is This Program Right for You?

  • Parents of children with trauma histories (foster, adoptive, early adversity)
  • Caregivers who feel like nothing they try is working
  • Families dealing with daily meltdowns, defiance, or emotional dysregulation
  • Parents who want to understand behavior — not just manage it
  • Anyone who loves a child with big needs and a big heart

You Deserve Support Too

Good parenting is learned, not innate. Let us help you build the skills and understanding your family needs.