“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.”
― Hodding Carter
Parenting a teen comes with a particular kind of difficulty: the strategies that worked when they were younger no longer apply, and the new strategies seem elusive. Whatever you’re navigating — communication that’s broken down, decisions you disagree with, the pull between protecting them and letting them find their own way — you’re allowed to bring it here.
This is coaching, not therapy. My role isn’t to hand you a solution or tell you what your teen “should” do. It’s to help you better understand your teen & see the situation more clearly, so that the solution you land on actually fits your family.
In addition to my training as a life coach, I bring two things to this work: fifteen years spent in classrooms and hallways with middle and high schoolers, and my own experience raising a son on my own through some of the hardest years a parent can face. I know what it’s like to parent through the hard years – because I have.
Raising Adults stands on its own. Many parents work with me without their teen ever being a client. But if your teen is also working with me through Academic Coaching, the two engagements run in parallel as separate, confidential relationships.