What is Parent Coaching?
Sound Parent’s coaching model is based on a positive, strength-based, reflective approach specifically designed to increase your feelings of competence and confidence in your parenting role. Parent coaching is a compassionate, collaborative, and non-judgemental relationship between you and your coach that helps you identify priorities and make clear choices based on what is optimal for you and your children. At Sound Parent we emphasize your strengths and those of your family. We offer new ways to problem solve using those strengths that will bring renewed hope and a positive outlook for your family’s future.
To help you achieve this, Sound Parent Coaches:
- Remind you to take great care of yourself in order to have clarity, stamina, and creativity to parent well.
- Listen intently and ask key questions.
- Provide information and offer specific suggestions to help you implement new attitudes and strategies in your life for yourself and your children.
- Encourage you to discover and address stresses and challenges which may be impacting you and your children.
- Evaluate the resources you have in place which are supportive and guide you to tap into them more efficiently.
- Assist you in identifying your goals and help you design action steps to attain them.
We are your supportive companion who champions your highest aspirations for yourself, your children and your family.
Where Does Coaching take place?
Sound Parent Coaching is offered in person or by telephone. Our sessions are 45 - 60 minute weekly or bi-weekly depending on your needs.
How Will You Know When You Are Done?
The goal of parent coaching – a long term sustained change – happens through the relationship that develops over time between the client and the coach. The process of understanding the client’s current situation, identifying what is working, dreaming dreams/setting goals and designing ways to make those dreams and goals a reality take time. We believe that an initial commitment of six sessions is necessary for the process to be effective. For some parents this is sufficient time to address their identified goals; others may choose to continue for a longer period to take advantage of the ongoing support and to address additional parenting concerns. Your sense of completion will be apparent to both you and your coach. We will fully support whatever timeframe you choose.
“When we solve a problem quickly, the one thing we can usually be certain of is that we ourselves are the same people coming out of the problem as we were going into it”
— Jerome Kegan
What is the Difference between Coaching and Therapy?
Therapy focuses on the past and its healing process while coaching focuses on the present with an action plan for the future. Patrick William, Ph.D., and Master Coach succinctly explains the difference in this way: Coaching and therapy both deal with current life issues with one major distinction, “Therapy is about uncovering and recovering while coaching is about discovering.”
Confidentiality
We abide by the Code of Ethics as outlined by the International Association of Coaches (IAC) of which we are members. Our coaching conversations are confidential.