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It is my strong belief that all parents love their children and are doing the best they can with the tools, information and resources they have in any given moment. We all want to have a loving and connected relationship, but so many times life gets in the way. My role is to provide more of what you need and help you explore the what gets in the way part.

As your Parenting Coach, I will support and guide you by:

Listening to understand your family and experiences, the challenges you are facing and what you’ve tried. Together we will acknowledge what is working and let it grow, and find new solutions and tools where you need them.

Using the latest research in brain science and development, I will reframe situations, which will help you see the underlying need driving your child’s behavior, while also allowing you to see your child’s perspective. This will give you deeper understanding and emotional generosity, especially when you need to set and hold empathic limits or to creatively problem solve with your child.
Provide the space for reflection and an opportunity to befriend your emotions. You will become more comfortable with feeling uncomfortable. This will allow you to better tolerate and welcome your child’s big feelings. Instead of getting hijacked and joining your child’s distress, you will become an anchor of co-regulation for your child. Children learn self regulation by co-regulating with a safe adult.
We will create a personalized, practical plan to try with your children. As well as exercises which will keep you more connected to yourself and also increase your connection with your child. With connection, cooperation grows.
This means more room for laughter and joy in your lives and more time to delight in your children!

Choosing Love is a Radical Act

Respecting a child teaches them that even the smallest, most powerless, most vulnerable person is worthy of respect, and that is a lesson our world desperately needs to learn. – LR Knost

Entering into a relationship with a parent coach is therapeutic, but it is not therapy. As your coach, I might suggest gathering additional information and opinions, but I do not diagnose. Working with a coach feels a bit like confiding in a trusted friend, one that has taken the latest classes, read the books and who stays up to date on current brain research, all the while ready to help you put it all into practice.

Parents know parenting is the hardest job we will ever have. We are not meant to do it alone. Let me join you on your journey and guide you to the rewards only parenting offers – true connection and unconditional love with another human being.

Investing in a parent coach is an investment in yourself, your child, your family and your future. Not to mention it is even a chance to help change the world.

Imagine what the world would look like if we all held an uncompromising vision of what it means to love children well. – Ruth Beaglehole

I am so thankful to have been able to work with Thanna even though we lived very far from each other. She provided support through Skype sessions and that allowed us to schedule time without having to figure out childcare. We were struggling with bedtime with our 4 year old as she would not allow herself to settle enough to fall asleep even though it was clear she was exhausted. Thanna worked with us to figure out a bedtime routine which also allowed us to make time for connection each day despite our hectic and busy schedule. She offered several suggestions for ways to connect with my daughter as she was feeling more disconnected after having become a big sister. Thanna was, also, instrumental in guiding my husband to understand gentle parenting and he was able to see why it was so important to me that we parent in this way rather than use punitive measures. Thank you so much for your gentle, kind, encouraging, and patient guidance, Thanna! You have never given up on us even when I felt like nothing was going to change our struggles. This work is hard but worth it. The "challenging" aspects we face as parents are tough but those "challenging behaviors" our children demonstrate is what will make our children emotionally intelligent, independent, and wonderful adults.

April O

Mother of two

Thanna is a gift to anyone she works with. I have had the pleasure of practicing under her coaching within a group setting and also privately. Thanna always knows where I need to dig deeper, grow, and heal; so I can really live out and experience the rewards of the Peaceful Parenting approach. My experience working with Thanna has been life changing for our whole family!

Caroline M.

Mother of Two

Thanna has been an amazing parenting coach in my life as a single mom to a sensitive daughter. With her warmhearted approach she has helped me with issues of how to support my daughter finding friendship at school, of how to guide her through family separation, how to set limits with her empathically. Thanna’s intuition and suggestions have been so helpful to become more aware of different areas, which had been out of my conscious reach.The connection to my daughter is growing strong and wonderful. And most important - she is becoming more confident and resilient. Thank you so much!

Marion V.T.

Mother of one

We were really grateful for Thanna’s guidance and support. She gave us some useful strategies to calm hyperactive behaviour and provide a gentle method for reasoning with our son.

Arabella F.

Mother of Two

I am so grateful for what Thanna brought to our family, and we are already seeing many rewarding changes. We had been coming off of an intense period of stress moving to a new home that caused a lot of disruptions for our family, and I was feeling so disconnected from the parent I want to be. Meeting with Thanna really reconnected me with what I envision for us and with my feeling that I have the ability to provide it! We have been enjoying ourselves with each other more, feeling closer and more connected, while also finding ourselves better able to just "get stuff done" with—dare I say—cooperation from a toddler and preschooler. It has been such an exciting shift! I am looking forward to continuing these changes with support from Thanna. Her peaceful and tranquil, yet confident energy and guidance was just what we needed. I also really appreciate the time she took after we met to capture and remind us of everything we talked about. It was clear that she was listening, and offered that crucial follow-up to fill in any gaps that we may have forgotten. Thank you, Thanna!

Abby C

Mother of Two

I have learned so much about peaceful parenting from Thanna. She listens attentively and is so incredibly compassionate and wise. I never felt judged and instead was supported and understood. She offered many tools and taught me many skills to use in parenting my son and daughter in a loving, kind, gentle manner. Everything I have tried that she suggested has worked and the results are tremendous. I completely and fully believe in the practice of peaceful parenting - it not only creates long-lasting, loving bonds with your children, but it also has made me a better parent and person. I cannot say enough good things about Thanna. I wish everyone would see her for parenting coaching and advice. Imagine if the whole world parented this way!

Faith S.

Mother of One

Working with Thanna has changed our family for the better! I have found myself really falling back in love with parenting. She has given us such a gift. I came to Thanna a bit ashamed that I even needed her. Wasn’t I supposed to know how to best parent my child as a mother? Thanna gave us simple and ultra helpful techniques to implement. They were simple but so life changing! I can not recommend a session her Thanna enough! You and you family deserve it! Plus she sends you amazing notes at the end so you can really start changing patterns and easily implement! Subjects we have worked on are: eating, nighttime routine, how to have less fights, how to have more cooperation, more bonding.

Cafe M.

Mother of One

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Have You Thought...

Would you like to feel more connected to your child and less controlling as a parent?

Are you wondering what would make your child Want to behave?

Would you like to be heard without yelling?

Are you tired of being stuck in the cycle of shame, guilt and punishment?

Do you feel there must be a better way?

Would you like to know how to nurture your child's strong-willed personality, instead of feeling like you're trying to break their will and spirit in order to get them to comply?

Do you want to help your child grow into a confident, empathetic, inspired, compassionate, and creative problem solving adult?

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