Services

It is likely you are considering working with Solutions because you are in some way distressed. You may have discovered that some attitudes, behaviors, or relationships within the family are not in keeping with your ideals and values. You love your children and are coming to realize that the strategies you have used in the past don't seem to be resulting in the home life you want. You want to make the committment to improving your family life either with indivualized sessions, group workshops, or through a formal speaking engagement to your organization. Does this sound like you?

• I do not want to raise my children the way I was raised.
• I want more direction than "Not what my parents did!".
• Our child is so different from us and from his siblings, I just don't know how to get through to him.
• I try to do what "good" parents do and it just doesn't seem to work!
• Is there something wrong with my child? Am I failing as a parent?
• I'm tired of being "the bad cop" while my partner is the "fun one"! How can we get on the same page?
• We seem to waffle between rigid control or total chaos, there must be a middle ground!
• There is so much conflicting advice out there. How can I possibly know what my child needs?
• This is not what I thought having kids would be like!

Read on to determine which service is right for you!

Individualized Family Coaching

The purpose of family coaching is to clarify and articulate your goals, determine if they are reasonable and achievable, and develop strategies for achieving the desired results. The specifics of this approach will vary depending on your needs and experiences. Coaching works because it helps you to focus on the things that are important to you. Your goals become clear and you acquire new skills, new perspectives and more awareness of choice to create the life you want. You create momentum by holding yourself accountable within a supportive environment.
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Temperament Talk: Creating Families that Fit

Solutions presents Temperament Talk, a dynamic, blame-free workshop for parents and others who care for kids. The workshop is based on the research of Dr. William Carey, a renowned pediatrician and behavioral scientist. Using materials relevant to children of all ages, you will learn to better understand your children, yourselves, and your parenting partners. Throughout the program, you will learn specific parenting strategies to improve behavior and enhance family relationships. Temperament Talk consists of eight, 90-minute meetings which have been field-tested for the last ten years in parent education and mental health settings.
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Siblings Without Rivalary: Promoting Harmony in Family Relationships

The goal of the Siblings Without Rivalry group workshop is to help you to help your children learn how to navigate the conflict inherent in living in close proximity to other people. Each session sensitizes you to what it is that increases conflict between children and the attitudes and languages you can learn to promote harmony. During each session, you will learn and practice specific skills that help to reduce friction and make loving, lasting sibling relationships possible. Siblings Without Rivalry provides six weeks of 1 1/2 hour sessions for couples and individuals.
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Developing Peer Support Structures

As parents, we know that we are responsible for creating a foundation for our children's sense of self worth. But too often we lack a network of wise and experienced parents from which to draw encouragement and provide perspective. Even as we are helping our own children learn the skills of adulthood, we are still struggling with our own issues of control, abandonment, stress, and uncertainty. You are not alone! With Developing Peer Support Structures, Solutions will show you how friends and even casual acquaintances can evolve into a long standing network of support. Invite as many people as you feel comfortable into your home for an informal yet focused and professional workshop on a variety of parenting topics. Read More...

Speaking Engagements

Is your organization looking for an educational and motivating experience? Would you like your members to come away from your event rejuvenated, excited, and ready to renew their commitment to children? My research-backed presentations provide practical and flexible strategies on a variety of topics for parents and professionals who work with parents and/or children. I will recommend a topic or guide participants through your selection, help them create a lasting network of supportive peers, and connect them with resources about child development, communication, educational research, and parenting information.
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