HOW I HELP PARENTS
I help mums and dads of kids with extra needs feel hopeful about their family again. They learn how to manage moments they used to find super-challenging. Their lives feel more comfortable and calm in 2-3 months. You learn that you can’t control everything around you, BUT you are in charge of your own responses. Hence feeling calmer!
This may not be a new concept: I help parents put it into practice, even when facing intense challenges.
I can help you uncover and transform fears your child will ever learn to be gentle, communicate clearly or about who will take care of them after your death.
You look at and change the beliefs driving your feelings and actions. We’ll alternate counselling and coaching sessions in a unique combination of:
changing emotional and behaviour patterns
looking after yourself, including enlisting help, SO you’ve more energy to:
practically help your child (join - model - celebrate, boundaries, siblings, friendships, school & diet, etc.) All tailored for you and your unique child
My clients arrive feeling isolated, guilty, resentful, grieving or confused, and quickly start chipping away at those feelings, and focus on what they can change now. We give space to those feelings (which helps them dissolve when you’re ready), and focus on what they can change now. Their newfound calm and confidence ripples out into their relationships, family, and work, and friendships.
Their newfound calm and confidence ripples out into their relationships, family, work, and friendships.
Sessions last 50 minutes and can be online, face to face, walk and talk or by phone.
Sessions are safe, respectful and confidential as well as often fun!
My role is to listen, accept and support you without judgement or pressure.
I’ll ask you questions and share what’s worked in my own and clients’ families. We can work on practicalities like bedtime and homework, as well as your mindset to keep you consistent and topped up.
WHAT WE CHANGED IN OURSELVES AND WHAT CHANGED FOR OUR CHILD
Our son was diagnosed aged 7 as autistic
He was highly articulate but this masked his social challenges. He struggled in most social situations. He lashed out. He couldn’t manage or comply in school.
We ran a play therapy programme called Son Rise ® for 5 years. We started small - 15 minutes a day, and eventually worked up to whole days with volunteer teams we trained.
Everything we did based on unconditional love and acceptance. The idea we can hope and dream for our child, and we don’t need to change a hair on their heads. Knowing we can have wants and be detached from the outcome, is a radical way to become happier and calmer in all areas of your life. It took energy and effort. Which was so much better spent on what we wanted than attempting what was impossible: to make him and school fit together.
Now our lad is a teenager who’s thrived in a supportive mainstream school and college & is studying for exams. He has a group of friends and is comfortable interacting with adults, teachers and new people too. He’s affectionate, helpful and has a cracking sense of humour. He’s proud to be autistic. And we’re so deeply proud of him.
I’m delighted to have trained in counselling and coaching and share what I’ve learnt works in my own family and in the families I support.
Want to find out what changed?
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“After speaking to you, I realise I do know the answers. I feel more confident”
“I used to judge myself harshly. After working with Emily, I’ve stopped judging myself and I’ve seen massive changes!”
BEGIN TO HOPE AGAIN
So if you wake up wondering who’ll kick off first, your child finds it super hard to leave the house, they’re anxious or angry and it’s hard on siblings and you, we can change that.
Parents come away from sessions with a deeper understanding of how to be useful to their child, knowing they’re more than good enough parents. They feel calmer, confident and resourceful.
Book a free initial call
Tell me what’s happening & what you want
If I can help, I’ll tell you how I could support you turn things around, starting now, for good
You decide if this is the help you want
We agree start dates and payment plans if you’re ready, (or I refer you to another service/ colleague that is a better fit)
Our son had been to two schools he hated. Staff had found him very hard to manage. He did well with 1-1 support but couldn’t comply with the demands of a mainstream classroom aged 7. I was waiting each day for a phone call home because he frequently hit teachers….