Behaviour Management and Emotion Coaching for Parents

Learn better ways to manage your child's difficult behaviour (...without losing your cool!) AND how to teach them to understand and filter their own emotions - so you don't always have to do it for them!

Do you sometimes struggle with your child's difficult behaviour?

Would you like to learn to manage difficult behaviour with fewer tears and less anguish?

And how to coach your child to recognise and respond appropriately to their own emotions?

If so, you might be interested in these two new coaching programs - specifically developed for parents of children or teenagers with difficult behaviour.

Behaviour Management Strategies and Emotion Coaching (2-12 years)

This program is for parents of children who are 2-12 years of age.

Learn how to:

Engage your child’s cooperation by positively noticing and encouraging them
Set clear expectations and develop frustration tolerance
Help your child’s brain to develop filters for behaving well
Resolve family conflict quietly
Determine which behaviours should be ignored, encouraged and managed
Manage your child's difficult behaviour by using the 1-2-3 Magic approach
Emotionally coach your child - how to listen empathically, encourage resilience and teach self-regulation

Plus discover:

...Simple strategies to practise being a calm parent
...Common mistakes that parents make: too much talk and too much emotion
...Tools for changing your child's difficult behaviours
...Tips for reinforcing positive behaviour & building a positive relationship with your child

Behaviour Management Strategies - Engaging Adolescents (12-18 years)

This program is for parents of adolescents. It teaches vital parenting skills for resolving teenage behaviour problems.

Learn how to:

Build a positive relationship with your teenager
Hold tough conversations - without it turning into World War III
Develop self-regulation in your teenager
Build your relationship with your teenager and make the best of your non-crisis conversations with them
Develop skills for tough conversations for handling those problems you just can’t ignore
Manage yourself as a parent - how to work out what might be triggering your reactions
Recognise normal adolescent behaviour versus behaviour that "crosses the line"

Plus discover:

...some common ground shared by parents & reasonable expectations to hold about adolescents
...a new understanding of adolescence
...some simple strategies to help resolve problems with your teenager

What Parents are Saying

"What a relief to come across a program that preserves the dignity of the child, maintains the self-control of both the parent and the child and is actually easy to remember when memory is the first thing to go!"

"I realised quickly that this can be a magnificent preventative measure that any parent can use to avoid raising a child who, later down the line, needs excessive discipline or grows out of control."

"An end to the arguing and yelling!"

"Simple, sane, effective."

How many sessions are required?

Both programs run for 6 x 1 hour sessions which are delivered as follows:

Sessions 1 to 3 are run weekly
Sessions 4 to 6 are run fortnightly

The program is individually tailored to your needs and run at a time which suits you and your partner.

What is the cost?

The total cost is $1,200 per family, which is broken down as follows:

$200 deposit to secure your place
$400 due at the first session
$600 due at session number 4

Which psychologist will I see?

Behaviour Management Strategies and Emotion Coaching programs are provided by Kristina Armstrong. Kristina is an experienced child psychologist who has completed the relevant practitioner training for these programs.

How to Book

If you are ready to book or have any questions about either program please phone Kristina Armstrong on 1300 603 933 or request a call back using our web form.