Family and Parent Coaching With Shel Dougherty,Parenting Coach
BENEFITS OF A PARENTING COACH
Parenting is one of the most rewarding…and challenging experiences in life. There are no instruction manuals for parenting and many parents find that they have lost the joy and fun of raising a family. A Parenting Coach can help you:
- Get Clear. A Parenting Coach will help you clarify your family and parenting goals. What is your dream family? What kind of relationship do you want to have with your children and partner? What values are important to you and what do you want to instill in your children?
- Find Peace. Creating a peaceful home starts with you, the parent. Would you like to stay calm in the chaos? Yelling, nagging and fighting are addressed and replaced with confident parenting, cooperation, win/win and peaceful-conflict resolution.
- Solve Problems. Can’t get your children out the door in the morning? Are mealtimes a struggle? A Parenting Coach can help you solve specific problems such as getting your toddler to stay in bed to handling tantrums, sibling fighting, power struggles and homework hassles.
- Set Boundaries. Setting limits and sticking to them are crucial to parenting. Your child wants boundaries and it’s their job to test them. A Parenting Coach will help you see where you’re not setting limits and being consistent with your child. Perhaps you need help creating routines and setting limits around TV and video games or perhaps you need help creating limits around the way the people in your life treat you and talk to you.
- Parent as a Team. Whether you’re happily married, going through a divorce or are a single parent, a Parenting Coach can help you thrive in chaotic times. A Parenting Coach will help you assess you and your spouse's parenting styles and show you how to leverage the strengths of each of your styles to deal more effectively with your current parenting challenges.
- Set Goals and Stay Focused. A Parenting Coach will support you in reaching your goals. A Coach will also remind you to take better care of yourself, celebrate your successes and to stick with your goals.
- Find Balance. Finding it hard to balance work and family? A Parenting Coach will assist you with living your parenting priorities when time seems to be speeding up—from helping you find ways to get down on the floor and play with your toddler to supporting your efforts to stay connected with your college-age child—and everything in between!
- Transition. A Parenting Coach will help overwhelmed new parents with all the changes a baby brings; support adoptive parents through the process and ease challenges for stepparents.
- Raise Confident, Responsible, Self-Motivated Children…While Having Fun! A Parenting Coach will help you parent with the end in mind and provide practical ideas and tips such as how best to motivate your child more effectively; how to interpret and diagnose your child’s behavior; how to get results without punishment; and how to stay detached and loving despite your child’s behavior.
WHO BENEFITS FROM A PARENTING COACH
Everyone! Whether you have children or grandchildren, are expecting, have adopted, are a teacher or caregiver – if you desire positive results, both in the moment and for the future, then partnering with a Parenting Coach is an excellent vehicle to help you achieve your goals.
You may be feeling like the way you’re parenting doesn’t feel good; you may be feeling ineffective and tired of yelling, nagging or bribing your children. Perhaps, you and your spouse don’t agree on how to handle situations with the children or you’re feeling exhausted, drained or constantly irritated … which makes you feel guilty and discouraged. You’re not enjoying your children or perhaps you've taken the Redirecting Children’s Behavior Parenting Course and haven't quite mastered some of the tools or aren't sure how to apply them.
Whatever the situation, a Parenting Coach will encourage you to discover and address stresses and challenges that may be impacting you and your children, and helps you evaluate the systems you have in place that are already supportive and then guiding you to tap into them more efficiently.
FLEXIBLE COACHING SESSIONS
Parent and Family Coaching caters to your children, your style, and your team. Whether your team is your family unit or classroom, as your Parenting Coaching, I will provide RCB-based solutions to your specific challenges.
Sessions can be one-on-one, over the phone, or with the entire family. Parents may take advantage of Parent Coaching individually or as a couple. I will come to you and work on a specific challenge or we can meet in a neutral, agreed upon location. We will arrange a day and time to suit your schedule and your goals.
As your Parenting Coach, I will work with you at your convenience. Based on your situation, together we will choose the best plan of action for your family. For example, for new clients, we may decide a 30 minute in home observation to start, followed up with a 30 minute session by telephone later that evening after the children have gone to bed. We may agree to meet one-on-one for the first session, with the entire family the next session, and over the phone for the last session. Because every client is different, every session can be flexible!
During sessions with the entire family I will model effective techniques and tools with you and your children and help you learn them yourself until they're second nature. The work you will do may not be easy at first but the results will be very rewarding and simply put - a relief!
Coaching Fees
In-Person Coaching: $75/hour
Phone Consultations: $1/minute
Session Packages
Each session lasts 1 hour. Session packages include “The Action Plan for Peace” which
is emailed within 48 hours upon completion of the previous session.
| Packages | Fees |
| 2 Sessions | $140 |
| 4 Sessions | $250 |
| 6 Sessions | $400 |
| Ad-on Sessions | $80/session |
Graduates of the Redirecting Children’s Behavior 5-week Course receive a $25 discount on
all Session Packages.
How To Get Started
First, read the Parent and Family Coaching Information Booklet and second, complete the Pre-Coaching Info Sheet and email it back to sdougherty@lehighvalleyrcb.com. You will then receive a call to schedule your first session.
Parent and Family Coaching Information Booklet