Parent Coaching
Becoming a parent is a tremendous life transition. At Wildflower, we know how overwhelming, joyful, and challenging parenting can be. Our parent coaching sessions are short-term, solution-focused conversations to help you navigate specific concerns and feel more confident in your parenting. Coaching is different from therapy: it’s highly practical, hands-on, and centered on what’s happening right now in your parenting journey.
How to Get Started with Parent Coaching at Wildflower
Request a Free Consultation
Schedule a 15-minute call online or by phone. We’ll cover key details and make sure we’re the right fit for your needs.
Complete New Client Paperwork
Receive registration forms pre-visit. Your provider will review details, ensuring clarity on our policies and guidelines.
Attend Your Coaching Session
During your initial 60-minute consultation appointment, you and your provider will discuss your consultation needs, and develop a plan that is in alignment with your goals.
Specialized Parent Coaching: Your Journey, Our Support
All psychotherapists at Wildflower are dedicated to supporting parents and families. Many parents may choose traditional psychotherapy to explore emotions, patterns, and deeper challenges.
Parent coaching at Wildflower, however, is distinct from psychotherapy. Coaching is short-term, solution-focused, and centered on specific parenting concerns. Importantly, coaching is not billed to insurance.
Parent Coaching at Wildflower: Guidance For Every Stage of Parenting
Parent coaching can be valuable at any stage of parenting from caring for a baby to raising adolescents, or even navigating your relationship with your adult child. Common areas of focus include:
Bonding With Your Baby as a New Parent
Early parenthood can feel overwhelming. Coaching can help strengthen your bond with the baby while also attending to your own emotional wellbeing.
Parenting in the Postpartum Period
We’ll support you in navigating the mix of emotions, stress, grief, and overwhelm that can arise while adjusting to life as a new parent.
Clarifying Your Parenting Values
Every family has its own unique values. Coaching helps you define what matters most so that you can parent with consistency and confidence.
Everyday Challenges and Routines
From tantrums and sibling rivalry to bedtime and mealtime struggles, you’ll gain practice tools for creating smoother daily routines.
Supporting Children’s Emotions
We’ll equip you with strategies and skills to help your child or teen navigate anxiety, sadness, grief, and anger with resilience.
Navigating Family Transitions
Divorce, co-parenting, or blending families all come with unique challenges. Coaching offers guidance to help you and your child adjust.
Parenting Teens With Trust
Adolescence can test boundaries. Together, we’ll explore ways to stay connected while giving your teen the independence they need.
Supporting Healthy Habits
Struggles with eating or sleeping are common. We’ll work on practical approaches to establish more balanced routines.
Technology and Boundaries
Screens are part of modern family life. Coaching offers strategies for setting healthy limits around technology use.
The Benefits of Coaching Session
You’ll leave each session with practical strategies, fresh perspectives, and a deeper understanding of both your child and yourself as a parent. Coaching provides tools you can implement right away, along with guidance to help you feel more grounded and confident. Benefits include:
- A deeper understanding of your child’s developmental stage and needs
- Practical strategies and tools you can implement right away
- Support in strengthening your connection and communication with your child regardless of their age
- Guidance in aligning your parenting with your values and goals
- Greater calm, clarity, and confidence in responding to challenge
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Clients’ Growth Stories
Wildflower and my therapist provided a safe, warm, understanding, non-judgmental space, both literally and figuratively, to do meaningful work. I am so grateful for my therapist’s compassion and guidance.
Wildflower is such a warm space with incredibly caring therapists! I have grown so much during my years here and always recommend coming here to friends looking for a therapist.
My experience at Wildflower has been absolutely seamless. Starting therapy takes courage and Wildflower respects that by responding to inquiries quickly and in a straightforward manner. It became very obvious that my therapist had been matched with me thoughtfully. I have loved my time working with [my therapist], even working through difficult topics and situations. I recommend Wildflower to anyone looking to be pushed towards growth in a respectful and safe space.
Wildflower has been a breath of fresh air. I’ve gone to a few different offices over the years and this is by far the best experience I’ve had. From the space itself to the people you hire, you’ve made something that can be very intimidating to people easy and enjoyable.
The Wildflower team guided me through what I can only hope was the most difficult period of my life. During a nightmarish time of crisis, extreme grief and trauma, they matched me with an exceptional therapist who was genuine, caring, and attuned. Our weekly sessions were simultaneously the best and hardest parts of my week … and eventually the heaviness got lighter.
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