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Therapeutic Parenting Coaching

Supporting parents and carers to respond with empathy, structure, and understanding — even when things feel hard.

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What Is Therapeutic Parenting Coaching?

Therapeutic Parenting Coaching provides a reflective and supportive space for parents, carers, and special guardians to explore the challenges of parenting a child who has experienced trauma, loss, or early adversity.

Many families find that traditional parenting strategies don’t work when a child’s behaviour is driven by fear, shame, or unmet need. Therapeutic Parenting Coaching helps you understand these behaviours through a trauma and attachment lens — focusing on what your child’s actions are communicating, rather than simply how to manage them.

Together, we explore ways to bring calm, connection, and confidence back into family life.

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Who It’s For

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Therapeutic Parenting Coaching is suitable for:

  • Parents, carers, and special guardians supporting children with attachment or trauma histories.

  • Families living with adoption, fostering, or special guardianship arrangements.

  • Adults who want to parent therapeutically but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or isolated.

  • Carers seeking strategies that support connection, regulation, and resilience.

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What Happens in Sessions

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Sessions are collaborative and practical, offering a balance of emotional reflection and therapeutic tools you can use at home.


Work may include:

  • Exploring your child’s behaviour through an attachment and trauma lens.

  • Building emotional regulation and co-regulation strategies.

  • Strengthening connection and communication.

  • Reflecting on your own triggers, responses, and self-care as a parent or carer.

Coaching sessions can be delivered individually or alongside therapeutic work with your child, ensuring consistency and shared understanding within the family.

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Therapeutic Goals

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  • Increase parental confidence and sense of calm.

  • Strengthen empathy and understanding of your child’s inner world.

  • Support consistency and connection within the home.

  • Promote healing relationships grounded in safety and trust.

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Practical Details

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  • Session length: Typically 50–60 minutes.

  • Format: In-person in Hampshire or virtual sessions nationwide.

  • Funding: Private pay or, where eligible, through the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund (ASGSF).

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My Therapeutic Parenting Credentials

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I hold a Diploma in Therapeutic Parenting Coaching, drawing on models such as PACE, NVR, and Integrative Attachment Family Therapy to tailor support to each family’s unique needs.

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Connected Family Support Programme

Therapeutic Parenting Support for Families Navigating Trauma, Anxiety, Emotional Overwhelm, and Challenging Behaviour

When behaviour feels overwhelming, connection can help families feel safer again.

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The Connected Family Support Programme is a compassionate, trauma-informed therapeutic parenting programme designed to help parents and carers better understand behaviour, reduce family stress, and strengthen connection within relationships.

Created for families supporting children who may have experienced trauma, attachment difficulties, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, neurodivergence, or early adversity, the programme offers practical strategies alongside a reflective and emotionally safe space for carers.

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You Are Not Alone

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Many parents and carers supporting children with additional emotional needs describe feeling:

  • exhausted

  • overwhelmed

  • isolated

  • stuck in cycles of conflict

  • unsure how to respond

  • worried they are getting things wrong

Often, beneath the behaviour is a child whose nervous system does not yet feel fully safe, regulated, or understood.

Therapeutic parenting encourages us to look beyond the behaviour itself and consider what a child may be communicating emotionally through their actions.

The Connected Family Support Programme is designed to help carers feel less alone whilst developing greater understanding, confidence, and connection within family relationships.

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What the Programme Covers

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Session 1: Understanding Your Child’s Behaviour

Exploring the emotional meaning beneath behaviour and understanding how trauma, attachment, stress, and anxiety can shape a child’s presentation.

Session 2: Regulation and Co-Regulation

Understanding the nervous system, emotional regulation, and how adults can help children feel calmer and safer through co-regulation.

Session 3: Responding to Behaviour

Looking at therapeutic, relationship-focused responses to difficult behaviour with a focus on connection before correction.

Session 4: Building Connection

Exploring attachment, emotional safety, play, and ways to strengthen parent-child relationships.

Session 5: Managing Tricky Moments

Practical support around conflict, dysregulation, transitions, anxiety, meltdowns, and emotionally heightened situations.

Session 6: Bringing It Together

Reflecting on progress, identifying what works for your child, and building sustainable therapeutic parenting approaches moving forward.

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What Is Included?

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The programme includes:

  • 6 therapeutic parenting support sessions

  • Printable workbook and reflective resources

  • Therapeutic scripts pack

  • Regulation toolkit sheets

  • Quick reference reminder cards

  • Between-session WhatsApp/email support boundaries guidance

  • Intake and reflection forms

  • Certificate of completion

Sessions are available:

  • online across the UK

  • in-person in Southampton where appropriate

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Who Is This Programme For?

The programme may be helpful for:

  • adopters

  • foster carers

  • special guardians

  • kinship carers

  • parents supporting children impacted by trauma

  • children experiencing anxiety or emotional overwhelm

  • emotionally based school avoidance

  • explosive or dysregulated behaviour

  • attachment difficulties

  • neurodivergent children who struggle emotionally or behaviourally

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What Families May Gain

Families often hope to develop:

  • greater understanding of behaviour

  • increased confidence in responding therapeutically

  • calmer family relationships

  • improved emotional safety and connection

  • practical regulation strategies

  • reduced shame and blame

  • stronger parent-child relationships

  • increased understanding of trauma and attachment

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Progress is often gradual and may look different for every family.

Small moments of connection, safety, and repair matter deeply.

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A Compassionate, Relational Approach

The Connected Family Support Programme has been designed to feel:

  • warm

  • practical

  • reflective

  • emotionally safe

  • non-judgemental

  • realistic for overwhelmed families

Support is grounded in attachment-focused and DDP-informed practice whilst remaining accessible and compassionate for everyday family life.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this therapy for my child?

No. The programme provides therapeutic parenting support and psychoeducation for parents and carers rather than direct therapy for children.

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Do children attend the sessions?

Sessions are primarily designed for parents and carers.

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Is this suitable for neurodivergent children?

Yes. Many of the approaches discussed can support neurodivergent children experiencing emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or regulation difficulties.

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Can both carers attend?

Yes, where appropriate.

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Are sessions online or in person?

Sessions can be delivered online across the UK or in person in Southampton where appropriate.

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Is this crisis support?

No. The programme is not a crisis or emergency support service.

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Programme Investment

Introductory Programme Offer: £395

Includes:

  • 6 therapeutic parenting support sessions

  • workbook and printable resources

  • therapeutic scripts pack

  • toolkit sheets

  • reflective exercises and support materials

Free initial consultation available.

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Get in Touch

If you would like to discuss whether the Connected Family Support Programme may feel helpful for your family, please get in touch.

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