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Parent Coaching: How to Stay Calm When Your Child Is Not

When your teen is dysregulated, it’s easy to become dysregulated too. That doesn’t make you a bad parent—it makes you human.

Parent coaching helps caregivers learn how to respond in a way that creates calm, structure, and long-term change.

What Parent Coaching Helps With

  • Defiance and power struggles
  • Emotional outbursts and tantrums
  • School refusal
  • Anxiety, depression, and overwhelm
  • Sibling conflict and family stress
  • Communication breakdowns

Practical Tools Parent Coaching Builds

  • Consistent boundaries (without yelling)
  • Calm and confident leadership
  • De-escalation strategies
  • Healthy consequences and reinforcement
  • Communication skills that prevent shutdowns
  • Family routines that create stability