Parent Coaching For Parents of Neurodivergent Children

Helping you parent your Autistic or ADHDer Child with understanding and confidence

Everything is fine until it isn’t…

You are looking for parent coaching for parents of neurodivergent kids because there are so many hard days.

You start the day thinking that today might be a good day. There is part of you hoping today is the day that doesn’t go sideways, hoping maybe things will actually go smoothly. (Read more about common experiences of parents of neurodivergent kids here)

Things really do seem to be going well. There is a smile, some laughter, and the routine feels like it might be right on point for once.

Parent Coaching to help you get through your child’s meltdowns

And then it happens. It feels the same every time. Whether it is minutes after you get out of bed or in the middle of the day. Suddenly, your child is melting down, and you feel helpless and confused. Part of you even feels frustrated.

They’ve shut down and are refusing to do anything. Or maybe they’re lashing out, crying, and screaming.

Possibly even being aggressive to themselves or you.

You have no idea what triggered it. And even if you have a theory, you still have no idea how you could have stopped this from happening.

It feels like forever as you desperately try to help your child calm down.

Walking on Eggshells

These incidents leave you feeling like you never know when it will happen again. As though you have no idea how to keep things calm. Keep them from getting out of control again.

You know that you’re missing something, that there is some way you could be helping, that you aren’t. It’s almost like there is a whole level of these interactions that you’re missing.

After all these years, you still don’t know how to keep the meltdowns from happening.

Avoiding Everyday Activities

Meltdowns are just the tip of the iceberg. They’re the worst of it, but they aren’t all of it. In order to try to prevent the meltdowns,, you avoid making requests of your child and avoid going out to new places.

Your child might not know how to act in public (it might be dangerous) or they do but things still go badly. They yell or scream in the grocery store, run off in parking lots, and throw things in the cart.

They struggle to do “age-appropriate” things stay close in public or use inside voices.

You can’t figure out how to help them learn or if that’s even the problem. So you just avoid doing things you would all enjoy (not to mention errands no one wants to do).

You can’t figure out how to help them learn, so you just avoid doing things you would all enjoy,

You don’t go to birthday parties.

You avoid the grocery store.

You can’t go out to dinner with friends.

You might even have to avoid so called “kid-friendly” places like the parks or indoor play areas.

It’s frustrating because it can feel so limiting, and you know it’s isolating for all of you, not just your child.

Striving For Success with Your Neurodivergent Child

You wish you had days with fewer or no meltdowns. Where you felt like you were parenting your child in a way that made things easier, instead of constantly wondering if you’re making things worse.

You would love to get out with them sometimes and feel like you both enjoyed it. Even if it was only for a little while.

You would like to do new things without walking on egg-shells, waiting for a meltdown the whole time.

You would like to be able to relax and breathe when the family is out or even when you’re at home together.

You want to approach your day and parenting with confidence. Knowing that you are doing everything you can, even if it isn’t always perfect.

You know that your family will never be like everyone else’s, but if you could have little glimpses of connection and calm with your child, it would help all of it feel worth it.

Parent Coaching for Parents of Teens and Kids with Autism, ADHD, and Beyond

When you work with a parent coach for parents of kids with autism, ADHD, or beyond, you will learn how to understand them better.

Being neurodivergent doesn’t just make fitting into the typical school day difficult with academics and social skills; it affects every part of your child’s life.

There are layers of differences that often parents, whether neurodivergent or neurotypical, might not be aware of or understand.

During parent coaching, we will work together to better understand how your child’s brain works.

Once we have this understanding, together you, and I will work to figure out what happens on the really bad days.

What are the factors that work together to make your child’s hardest days happen?

And then we’ll figure out what we can do that might be able to make a difference for your child.

How can we make those days a little bit easier both for your child and for you?

My goal when I work with any family, are to help you learn to support your child when things are hard,, so that slowly over time you can teach them to help themselves.

Neurodivergent Affirming Parent Coaching

As a neurodivergent affirming parenting coach, I want to help you teach your child to be more themselves.

So instead of teaching them to behave or pretend to be neurotypical, the two of us will help your child learn to work with their brain.

All of the interventions we will discuss will be targeted to make your child’s life easier and, in the process, help you to feel confident that your child will be a happier adult. As themselves, not pretending to be someone they aren’t.

Part of this process is figuring out what your child’s unique needs are and learning ways to work within our world in a way that works for their brains.

Here are some simple examples;

Being aware of your child’s sound sensitivity and allowing them to wear headphones whenever, giving them a quite space to escape to, and limiting the amount of time they spend in loud environments.
Knowing that sitting still is hard for your child, you sit in the back when you go to the movies so they can stand if they need to. Or setting up a “theater” at home.

Through parent coaching, you will learn to work with your child’s differences and help them be more themselves by knowing how to care for themselves and their needs.

Begin Coaching for Parents of a Neurodivergent Child in California

Parent coaching can help you feel more confident with your parenting skills and understand your child more. You’ll feel better about the choices you make and have a better idea of how to help your child when they’re struggling.

You will even have ideas about how to connect better and spend more time enjoying each other as a family.

If you are ready to get started with parent coaching for parents of neurodivergent kids, schedule a free consultation here.

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Frequently Asked Questions

In parent coaching, we’ll focus on your understanding of your child and how you interact with them. We’ll focus on understanding your child’s differences and how you can help them to be happier as themselves.
Together, we’ll identify unmet needs that your child may be experiencing and help you teach them to accommodate and advocate for themselves.
It’s different from therapy in that we won’t be talking about the feelings that you’re having, about the way that you’re parenting, and how that might be impacting your relationship with your child. Or how your past experiences or traumas are impacting your parenting journey.
Yes, I enjoy helping all of the child’s caregivers to get on the same page. As long as everyone wants to be there, I would love to work with both of you (or all of you if there are more than 2 caregivers).
The parent coaching I do focuses on helping you to understand your child better and learn about their needs. Even if your child is undiagnosed or is just a little quirky, I can help you learn about them and what they might need.
When I work with parent coaching clients, I very rarely see parents more often than every other week. I find that when we’re working together in coaching, you often need time to apply the skills that we talked about in session. I recognize that all of our lives are busy, so it makes sense to give you at least two weeks to experiment with what we talked about.