Parenting Support, Holistic Counselling | Understand your child better

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.

If you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed, you’re not alone.

Parenting can be deeply rewarding, but it can also feel overwhelming and exhausting. We all struggle at times.

Our children can bring out the best — and sometimes the most challenging parts — of us. They can also be our greatest teachers.

Maybe you would like to parent differently from the way you were parented, but aren’t sure where to begin.

You know you’re doing your best, yet still find yourself wondering if you’re getting it right. Some days it can feel like you’re going round in circles, getting nowhere.

Challenges in today’s world

Today’s world brings its own challenges. 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.

You may be worried about your child’s behaviour, emotions, friendships, learning, anxiety or development. Or perhaps you’re simply trying to make sense of what is happening and looking for answers.

You don’t need to have it all worked out before you reach out.

For more than 20 years, I have worked with children and families, developing a deeper understanding of how early development can influence learning, behaviour and emotional wellbeing.

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When we look beneath the behaviour, everything starts to fall into place

Support for You

In the midst of caring for everyone else, it can be easy to forget about yourself.

But you matter. Your wellbeing matters too.

When we feel calmer and more emotionally balanced, it becomes easier to tune in to what our children may be experiencing and what they might be needing from us.

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.

Parent support can offer a place to feel safe, heard and understood, while finding a way forward that feels right for you and your family.

Support for Your Parenting

Children don’t come with rule books.

Parents can feel unsure about how to respond to big emotions, challenging behaviour, learning difficulties or anxiety. Sometimes the strategies that have worked before simply don’t seem to work anymore.

Rather than focusing only on managing behaviour, I offer another way of looking at what is happening — through understanding, connection and curiosity.

It’s easy to see your child’s behaviour as a problem. But what if the behaviour is trying to communicate something?

Together, we can look beneath the behaviour and explore what your child may be telling you.

My developmental background gives me another lens through which to understand your child’s individual needs, development and behaviour.

Support for Your Relationship

Becoming parents can change the whole dynamic of a 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.

Perhaps you clash over parenting and would like to feel more like you’re on the same page.

Sometimes supporting the relationship between parents is an important part of supporting the whole family.

Addressing the stresses and tensions in our own lives

is the first step in creating lifelong change

You don’t have to work it out alone

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.

You don’t need to know exactly what kind of support you need before you get in touch.

Rather, we’ll work together, helping you to understand the “why” behind your child’s behaviour, and feel supoorted to create the changes you are looking for.

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”.

Download our FREE Tips for Raising Happy Healthy Children E-Book.

This free resource offers suggestions for creating the family life you have always dreamed of.

We cover topics including:

Establishing a bedtime routine
Suggestions for picky eaters,
The importance of free play
Why screen time can delay your child’s early development

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