Parent coaching.

Parent coaching is practical support for the adults raising a child — not therapy for the child, and not a class. It's a working relationship focused on what's happening at home: a child's behaviour, a family under stress, a parenting approach that isn't landing the way it used to.

The work draws on two main frameworks. Simplicity Parenting, developed by Kim John Payne, looks at how the pace and clutter of a child's life — schedules, screens, toys, information — can overwhelm a nervous system that isn't built to filter it, and offers concrete ways to simplify. Dr. Gordon Neufeld's developmental, attachment-based approach, taught through the Neufeld Institute, focuses on the parent-child relationship itself — helping parents stay the compass point in a child's life through connection rather than control.

Neither framework is a technique to apply on top of what you're already doing. Both ask a parent to understand what's actually driving a child's behaviour before responding to it.

Sessions run 50 to 60 minutes, usually with one or both parents rather than the child. We talk through what's happening, what's already been tried, and what the underlying dynamic might be — then work out what to do differently. Some parents come for a handful of sessions around a specific issue. Others check in regularly as their child moves through different stages.