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A parent coach can provide psycho-education to better understand the origin of your child’s behavioral struggles. Coaches can help guide parents through a process of personal exploration to gain insight on how their own past experiences may be showing up in their parenting styles and assist in breaking unhelpful cycles. Through this process, coaches help create actionable goals for behavioral changes, as well as internal changes such as learning how to manage your thoughts and feelings differently to continue supporting your family and yourself. Parent coaching can help with a multitude of things, including, but not limited to, transitional issues, general behavioral issues, learning issues (such as ADHD), developmental and learning disabilities (such as ASD), LGBTQ+ support, recent hospitalizations for a mental health event, facilitating difficult conversations, or improved communication in the home.

Parent coaching can be done virtually or in-person, including one or both parents (separately or together). You can expect your coach to provide psycho-education about your child’s mental health and developmental needs, offer strategies for support, and bolster communication and coping skills. Parent coaching can be directive and establishes realistic goals for your family. Work in session may include diving into your own past experiences and childhood to understand your strengths and areas for growth, or it may include working on implementing changes in your home to better respond to your child’s behavior. There is no wrong way to better yourself through coaching.

Ample research shows parent coaching can positively influence the treatment outcomes for children, especially in cases regarding autism spectrum diagnoses (Rogers et. al., 2019), disordered eating (Knatz, Braden, & Boutelle, 2015), and conduct issues (Dretzke et. al., 2009). In general, any parent that wishes to take the time to learn how to better relate to their child can benefit from parent coaching. Parent coaching can also include self-exploratory aspects that naturally improve self-understanding and relationships.

Coaching can be considered a supplemental clinical service to therapy or its own stand-alone service. While therapy diagnoses conditions and helps with emotional healing, coaching may be more streamlined to focus on specific goals within a treatment plan or work to address identifiable problems in the home. Coaching is typically more solution-focused than exploratory psychotherapy and focuses on implementing interventions in the home to reach your goals. However, Ten of Cups coaches have professional backgrounds as trained therapists and are able to help you achieve some overlap between the two services, such as exploring past experiences, understanding thoughts and emotions, and developing coping skills.

The name for Ten of Cups Coaching comes from a tarot reading done by a friend of the business when it was still a young idea. For a business created with the intention of preserving accessible healthcare expertise to families during changing times, the card representing happy families, reunions, stability, harmony, abundance, domestic bliss, children, and fulfillment perfectly captures all the business aims to achieve.