What is
Parent Coaching?

Parent Coaching Goes Far Beyond Tips and Tricks

Parent Coaching helps bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

The result is greater confidence, stronger relationships and a clearer path forward for both you and your teenager.

As teenagers grow and change, so do their needs. What worked when they were younger often becomes less effective during adolescence. Parent Coaching helps you adapt and evolve your parenting to meet those changing needs while maintaining a strong, healthy relationship with your teenager.

Unlike one-size-fits-all advice, parent coaching is tailored to your unique family, your teenager, and the challenges you are facing. Together, we work to improve communication, reduce conflict, strengthen your influence, and help you become the calm, confident, and connected leader your teenager needs.

My approach combines education and coaching, in a “teach first, coach second” model. Understanding teenagers, parenting, and adolescent development is important. However, knowledge alone rarely creates lasting change. The real challenge is applying that knowledge consistently when emotions are high and the situation feels personal.

Parent Coaching is collaborative, respects that you are the expert with your teen and is tailored to your unique personality and particular situation.

It is powerful, and it works.

Parent Coaching helps bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

The result is greater confidence, stronger relationships and a clearer path forward for both you and your teenager.

Parent Coaching is collaborative, respects that you are the expert with your teen and is tailored to your unique personality and particular situation.

It is powerful, and it works.

Why work with a Parent Coach?

Because parenting teenagers is one of the most challenging leadership roles you will ever have.

Many parents feel stuck during the teenage years. What used to work no longer works, conversations often end in conflict, and your relationship with your teen can feel increasingly strained. A Parent Coach provides the mindsets, skillsets, perspectives, and support you need to rebuild connection, strengthen trust, and move forward with confidence.

Parent Coaching is right for you if…

You recognize that change starts with you.
You are motivated and ready to do the work to become a more effective parent.
You want a healthy relationship based on trust and respect.
You want to enjoy parenting your teenager.

Parent Coaching with Ken will help you…

Stay calm when confronted with your teenager’s challenging behaviour.
Become confident in your parenting skills.
Stay connected to your teenager and strengthen your relationship.

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Four Coaching Areas

Positioning and Strategy

The focus here is on shifting your parental role to that of a coach. This shift allows you to become an ally, not an enemy, in your teenager’s life. Through the process of being coached, you will learn how to coach your teenager.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Believe it or not, your biggest challenge is not your teenager’s behaviour. The biggest challenge is your emotional reaction to their behaviour. I call this emotional reaction “the crazy,” and every parent brings their own unique brand of crazy into their relationship with their teenager. Learning to tame your “crazy” is absolutely critical.

Self-Awareness

You will expand your level of awareness as to why you do what you do. In other words, you will learn what makes you tick. Coaching will help you identify your parenting fears, beliefs, patterns, and triggers. Most importantly, you will identify how you contribute to the problems with your teenager.

Expanding Your Parenting Toolbox

You already have a parenting toolbox. That toolbox, unfortunately, is most likely loaded with tools of control. The problem is that tools of control create disconnection. They often make things worse. The key is to learn and develop parenting skills that create connection, trust, and respect, which ultimately raise your level of influence with your teenager.

FAQs about Coaching

Is coaching covered under my Health Benefits Plan?

The cost of coaching is not covered under your health benefits. Consider it as investment in yourself and your relationship with your teenager.

What is the difference between coaching and therapy?

Therapy:

typically focuses on issues of pathology, unresolved psychological issues of the past, and healing.
frequently uses diagnoses and can last anywhere from weeks to years.

Parent coaching:

looks forward, deals in the present, seeks to educate, and does not diagnose. While the past may be discussed, it is addressed in the context of discovering what is blocking the client from moving forward.
uses tools and the most current research to help you develop the skills you need to move forward in a positive way.

Will you meet with my teenager or us as a family?

We offer both Parent Coaching and Teen Coaching. Family Coaching sessions are also available, if all involved feel it is the next logical step.

“I read every parenting book on the planet. I knew academically what I needed to be doing to parent my teenager, but in practice, I wasn’t following through. Ken was able to help me put the concepts and ideas behind successful parenting into action through his coaching. After Ken’s help with our family, I noticed immense changes in how I was reacting to tough situations with my teen, and our relationship improved exponentially. Coaching with Ken came at a crucial time in our family’s history, and without Ken’s help, I’m certain things would not have worked out as well as they did.”

– Camille