Empowering Parents, Nurturing Families:

Through Parent Coaching

Parent Coaching is safe and non-judgmental support to help you parent at your best.

At Cohesion Psychology, our Parent Coaching provides compassionate guidance, practical strategies, and empowering support for parents navigating challenging behaviours, emotional struggles, or developmental differences in their children and adolescents

What is Parent Coaching?

How Can It Transform Your Family Life?

Parent coaching is a collaborative, goal-oriented process designed to equip parents with the skills, understanding, and confidence to effectively support their children's development and navigate common family challenges.

Unlike child therapy, which focuses directly on the child, parent coaching empowers you with personalized strategies to foster positive change within your family system.

Core Areas of Focus in Parent Coaching

Struggling with Challenging Behaviours

Dealing with defiance, tantrums, aggression, sibling rivalry, or difficulty with routines.

Parenting a Child with ADHD or Autism

Seeking specific strategies to manage unique behaviours, sensory sensitivities, or communication styles associated with neurodevelopmental differences.

Navigating Emotional Difficulties

Supporting a child experiencing anxiety, sadness, anger, or difficulty expressing their feelings.

Seeking Communication Improvement

Wanting to build stronger connections, listen more effectively, and reduce family conflict.

Facing School-Related Issues

Managing school refusal, homework struggles, or social challenges at school.

Going Through Life Transitions

Helping children cope with divorce, grief, new siblings, or moving.

Our Cohesion Approach to Parent Coaching:

Supporting Your Family’s Unique Journey

At Cohesion Psychology, our parent coaching is built on empathy, respect, and a deep understanding of child development. We offer a unique approach that provides:

    • While we coach parents, our ultimate goal is the well-being and healthy development of your child, helping you meet their underlying needs.

    • Support to children of all ages who may have diagnoses of ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, giftedness, etc.

    • Support to various family structures, including blended families, adopted children, LGBTQ+ families, etc.

    • We offer a non-judgmental space where you can share your challenges and receive practical guidance without feeling criticized.

    • A strengths-based approach to coach parents using customized, straightforward, and realistic strategies designed at improving challenging behaviors in children and youth.

FAQs

  • Coaching focuses on parental skills; therapy may involve all family members for systemic change.

  • Usually no, the focus is on parents, but can be integrated if beneficial.

  • Toddlers to Adolescents