Parenting Support
Helping you to have the family life you always dreamed of
Feel more confident as a parent, understand your child’s behaviour, and create closer family relationships.
Today’s world brings many challenges for parents. You’re raising a child in a world very different from the one you grew up in, facing pressures your own parents may never have imagined.
Parenting can be deeply rewarding, but it can also feel overwhelming and exhausting at times. Rest assured you are not alone in feeling this way!
Maybe you would like to parent differently from the way you were parented, but aren’t sure where to begin. Perhaps you clash over parenting strategies and would like to feel like you’re on the same page more often?
Your parenting support session is a place where you can feel supported and understood. There is no judgement, and no set program to achieve anything. This is a time for you to rebuild your connection as a couple, helping you to create the family life you really want.
Behaviour as a clue to greater understanding
Rather than focusing on suppressing or managing behaviour, I invite you to see it another way, based on understanding, connection and curiosity.
It’s easy to see your child’s behaviour as a problem. But what if the behaviour was actually a clue? What if your child’s behaviour was trying to communicate something?
For more than 20 years, I have been supporting children with learning and behavioural challenges. Today, I prefer to offer support to parents. I find that when we are able to address the stresses and tensions in our own lives, everything starts to shift.
When we become more balanced emotionally, our children naturally tune in to our sense of calm, and family life seems much less stressful.
Becoming a family
Becoming parents can also change the whole dynamic of your relationship. Suddenly, you’re no longer just a couple. There’s another person to consider, and a whole new set of challenges to negotiate together.
Taking time to nurture your relationship and support each other through this new stage can make family life feel less stressful and help you feel more connected as partners and parents.
Whether you are looking for practical parenting support, a space to explore your own experience as a parent, or support with your relationship, we can begin with where you are.
Sometimes it simply helps to sit with someone who understands — someone who can listen without judgement and give you space to explore what is happening in your life.
If this sounds like what you are looking for, you’re welcome to get in touch.
Individual and Couples Counselling and Parenting Support sessions are available in Moruya, NSW and online Australia-wide.
No referral or Health Plan required.
Circle of Security Parenting Program
This internationally renowned parenting progam is designed to help you understand your children’s behaviours, and build closer relationships. Rather than offering strategies to manipulate behaviour, change is based on recognising the reason behind the behaviour, asking “What is your child really needing”?
We are social beings, and a safe and secure attachment during infancy and early childhood is the basis of all later development, including emotional regulation, the ability to respond to stressful situations, relationships and classroom success.
Children thrive when they feel safe, seen, heard and understood.
Sessions are available both online and in person at Moruya South Head.
- Understand the meaning behind those tantrums and meltdowns
- Build a closer connection with your children
- Learn alternatives to time-outs, “consequences”, withdrawal of privilege and other punishment-based strategies
- Raise securely attached children who are ready to learn
As one happy parent commented:
“Every parent should do this course”.
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