How Can Parent Coaching Help?

Does This Sound Like You?

 

Your teen or young adult is in treatment, and you are finally sleeping through the night for the first time in as long as you can remember. Still, you’ve got some concerns that have you feeling a bit anxious or discouraged.

• You see that your child is making progress, but your relationship with them doesn’t seem to be following suit. (Or maybe you’re having a hard time seeing any progress in them at all.)

• You long to deepen your connection with your child but aren’t sure how—especially given how infrequently you see them these days.

• You want to set your child up for success when they return home but worry that everyone in the family will fall back on old habits.

• You feel stuck parenting the child you once knew and aren’t certain how to adapt your role to better fit the child they are becoming.

 

These concerns are a completely normal part of the landscape when you have a child in treatment. The good news is, your child’s time away also provides you with an excellent opportunity to lay the groundwork for a more harmonious future for your family. Let Alex give you a hand!

 

How Can Parent Coaching Help?

 

Blending instruction, advice, collaborative problem solving, accountability, cheerleading, and a sprinkle of humor, Alex will guide you toward better supporting your child—through treatment and beyond—and building a more fulfilling relationship with them.

 

Your partnership with Alex will focus on reasonable changes that you can make; that means your efforts and energy will be directed toward what’s within your control. "Fixing" your child is off the table! Though this scope of service may seem self-evident, it’s often one of the first lessons Alex imparts—because, boy, can we human beings put effort into trying to change others! 

 

Alex’s guidance will help you:

• identify the patterns in your behavior and communication with your child that work, and those that don’t

• pinpoint the triggers to your unhealthy responses

• develop, practice, and implement skills and strategies to communicate and respond more appropriately

• build on your strengths and gifts, and find ways to apply them more broadly and flexibly to your parenting

• recalibrate your understanding of “progress” so you are more attuned to your child’s growth

• find clarity about your role as a parent at this stage of your child’s development

• feel empowered to make the best choices for your family

• grow into the parent you really want to be

 

Unlike therapy, parent coaching is generally a short-term proposition. Though Alex will work with you for as long as you find it helpful, a typical arrangement lasts 6-8 weeks.

 

Enlisting the support of a parent coach is not evidence that you have failed. On the contrary, it shows the strength of your commitment to the parenting enterprise. Parenting is a challenge in the best of circumstances; an outside resource like a parent coach can provide the expert buttressing you need get you through an especially difficult time.