Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching
Being in touch and in tune with yourself is the only way that the best parent in you can be present.
Parenting is such a joy and an honor - and it’s often the biggest challenge we’ll ever face.
Kids need a near-constant supply of energy and attention, keeping us on our toes and leaving us to wonder how to juggle the competing adult responsibilities: career, finances, and relationships. Often, partnerships and friendships take the back burner and parents are left feeling under-supported. When you add in a particularly challenging time for you or your child, it’s a recipe for short tempers, self-criticism and exhaustion.
It can help to have someone on your team to support you in understanding the struggles your child is facing and to collaborate with you on solutions to your parenting struggles. Having served many children and families, I am skilled at helping you make parenting easier and more fulfilling.
I am direct, candid, and collaborative in my work with parents.
This parent work creates huge shifts in your child, ease and joy in your parenting, and promotes your smooth family functioning as a whole.
This includes a thorough assessment of your child and the best ways to parent and support your child or teenager with their specific needs, challenges, and their unique, authentic ways of being. My work is holistic and customized to your child and family.
I have been a child and adolescent therapist for 14 years and have worked with 100s of children and their parents. I have worked with parents regularly to:
Get the nitty-gritty of your child’s day-to-day and hear your perspective and concerns about your child or teenager.
Support you as a parent and as an individual, to better understand your child so you can have greater ease and connection in your parenting and relating.
Think through together what might be happening for your child and how to best support them. Going thorough play-by-play scenes of parenting in action and the specifics of how you as a parent can intervene effectively to meet your teenager and support his/her development.
Support the family dynamic as a whole
This is my zone of genius and one of the greatest loves of my work as a therapist.
1-on-1 Parent Coaching
The following is a list of my services to support parents:
Parent Consultation (1-3 sessions focused on a particular parenting dynamic in which I will offer my professional recommendation)
Ongoing parent sessions when a child is in individual therapy with me
Couples therapy with parents focused on supporting your relationship and becoming better parenting allies
Parenting support groups (general support, ADHD, grief/loss, adoption)
Presentations and classes at schools for parents, educators, and administrators
I tailor every session, whether with an individual or group, to the unique needs of the parents with whom I am working.
“Through my 3 years of work with Lori, we have both seen myself grow more and more into my potential.
I came to Lori as an already empowered freshman in high school and yet our work still brought me to a much better understanding of how to utilize and empower my natural existential and empathetic gifts.
I always felt like my parents didn’t get how deep, sensitive, and emotional I am. Lori provided me with an amazing, safe space that allowed me to feel comfortable with breaking down my emotions as well as the constant supporting of who I am. She helped me to bring these strengths and gifts out more into my life and the world. Lori and I have worked together for me to overcome obstacles no matter what the size, and I look forward to benefitting from our time for years to come.”
- Darby T., 17 years old
“I have worked with Lori since I was 15. Before working with Lori, I struggled to regulate my emotions, but after working with Lori, I’ve developed skills to handle my emotions and mood swings.
As a result, I’ve created healthier relationships with my friends and family and learned to calm my own anxiety. Before working with Lori, I struggled to create healthy boundaries and lasting friendships, but with her help, I’ve been able to cultivate strong and ongoing friendships.
Lori has helped me greatly sort through my ideas and assumptions about my life and I have grown to know myself more deeply through our work together. Lori listens carefully and gives great advice that widens my perspective. I would absolutely recommend Lori to anyone because she creates a space for open sharing and holistic growth.”
- Leah T., 20 years old
Why work with Lori?
I’m here after 25 years of therapy, healing and personal work, 14 years as a clinical professional and working with hundreds of clients.
I’ve had a long career as a somatic, relational and trauma therapist. I’ve done over 5,000 hours of clinical supervision with dozens of therapeutic mentors and have completed over a dozen professional trainings.
I specialize in emotional regulation, early attachment, C-PTSD and nervous system rewiring. I use the powerful method I created - combining leading modalities with my own clinical work - to get to the root of any intimacy wound or relationship pattern and unwind it.
For the last 22 years, I’ve been blessed to study and practice with incredible Buddhist teachers, many of whom are weaving psychology, trauma and attachment theory into Buddhist practice. I help you open to the highest spiritual depths while being grounded in your body and this earthly life.
I also know what it’s like to be single for years and in and out of relationships that aren’t fully aligned. I have been through a deep personal journey of fully owning all of who I am and feel so free, alive, creative and full in myself and freed myself to find love.
I am highly gifted at all things related and have supported hundreds of clients with this topic and in all kinds of relationships for years.
We need this new paradigm of relating and I am so here for it.
It would be my greatest joy and honor to walk you through the process of healing, transforming, and calling in deep, epic love.
Let’s do this together!