Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching is designed for parents who are navigating challenging or confusing behaviors from their children, and desire to see positive change in their child and themselves through new parenting techniques. Any family can benefit from parent coaching services.
Parent Coaching Overview
Focusing on attachment, behavior, and daily functioning, Parent Coaching sessions are 45-60 minutes long and provide parents with proven tools and techniques they can use in their relationship with their child. Our parent coaches tailor coaching sessions to the unique needs of each family, drawing from a wide variety of trauma-informed and attachment focused resources like Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), the Connected Families Framework, and more. The sessions typically take place via telehealth.
“Lifeline has been an absolute blessing for our family. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. We didn’t understand that our daughter needed a different parenting approach. The coaching has been transformative. It’s not easy, and it’s a process. But it’s working.”
Meet Our Coaches
Sara Wilson Worley
Commonly Asked Questions
How is Parent Coaching different from counseling?
Parent Coaching takes a more educational approach to helping a parent develop tools and techniques they can use in their relationship with their child. Parent Coaching can be done in conjunction with counseling, if a parent chooses.
What families are good candidates for Parent Coaching?
Any family is a good candidate! Parent Coaching is available for any parent who needs additional insight into their child’s behavior. It is specifically designed for children who may have experienced attachment problems and trauma in the past. However, any child can benefit from these services.
How does Parent Coaching benefit families?
For families who have recently adopted, Parent Coaching can help with applying principles of attachment and provide support in the initial months of adjustment.
For adoptive families who have been home for longer, or families doing foster care, a child’s growing feeling of safety and security in their home can allow new and challenging behaviors to emerge as a child begins to shed the survival skills that may have made them compliant in the beginning. Adoption is a lifeline journey; issues can emerge or re-emerge as a child goes through a new development stage. A reoccurrence can be confusing or frustrating to parents who feel like they have dealt with and resolved an issue. They may be surprised they need to repeat or return to strategies they used when they were newly home.
Parents of biological children also reach out for coaching services—coaching is for any family! You might be parenting biological children with special needs, or you might have entered a new developmental stage with a child whose behavior felt more manageable in the past, and now you need new skills. Our coaches are able to work with families of any background to find the right supports for you.
How long are the sessions?
Parent Coaching sessions are 45-60 minutes long and provide parents with new and different tools and techniques that are different from traditional parenting. These tools and techniques are used to build additional strengths and parenting skills and to enhance relationships with the child.
Where do sessions take place?
Parent Coaching sessions can be done in the office, by phone, or through web-based meeting during Lifeline’s office hours.
What is the cost?
Each Parent Coaching session is private pay and costs $100. DHR may cover Parent Coaching sessions for foster families.
