Trauma Informed Parenting Coaching
There is such a huge amount of time and effort given to supporting children’s mental health and it can feel that the same amount of support isn’t as available for parents. Parenting doesn’t come with a handbook and can sometimes feel like you are walking into a warehouse with no lights on and no torch. How do you get from one side of the warehouse to the other without being able to see?
Trauma informed parent coaching is vital to ensuring that we as parents’ guide our children through the anxiousness of the teenage years. We all have experiences that we would have classified as traumatic in our lives. Teenagers aren’t always equipped to manage their traumatic experiences and what we find is that parents can sometimes struggle to connect and assist their children.
A trauma informed parenting approach gives parents insight into what is happening for their young person from a psychological, physiological and biological way. While arming parents with tools to communicate at a level that shows their children that they understand what they are going through and answers to overcome their challenges.
Through our work together you will learn the following practical skills to assist you child:
- ✅ Self-care strategies
- ✅ Overcome anxiety
- ✅ Managing stress
- ✅ Strategies for overcoming trauma
- ✅ Overcome isolation
- ✅ Regulation strategies
- ✅ Positive identity
- ✅ Strategies for managing aggressive and avoidant behaviours
- ✅ Approaches for controlling emotions
- ✅ Build positive and safe relationships with friends and family
- ✅ Getting re-engaged with school
- ✅ Managing study pressure
- ✅ Build confidence
- ✅ Social challenges
- ✅ Shame
- ✅ Grief and loss
As parents we have more than knowledge, we have wisdom that we can pass down. We want more for our children than what we had and never want our children to live the struggles we did growing up. The challenge we see is that most parents aren’t able to pass down their wisdom due to a communication block that can occur with their children. A trauma informed approach can alleviate this block and allow your message to get through.
Our aim is to move parents from being a ‘parent’ to being a ‘mentor’. The two seem the same, however, they are very different. Children from the ages of birth to 12, need parenting because they don’t have ability to do things themselves. Children in the teenage years (12-21) need mentoring as it’s now time for them to build their capacity to become an adult. This transition for parents is a tough one and when it’s not done correctly, can do damage to the parent-child relationship.
If you feel lost, unsupported, can’t get your children to school, always seem to be fighting with your children and have done everything you can to support your children without any luck, contact me today to get the support you as a parent want and need. Parents should never feel alone, now you don’t ever have to feel that way again.
