Reparative Parenting

“All Kids Innately Want to Do Good and Be Good!”

— Ross W. Greene, PhD

Reparative Parenting is a specialized parent coaching service designed to help parents improve and repair their relationship with their children. Our goal is to support you in reconnecting with your child, reestablishing a secure attachment, and fostering trust through developmentally responsive parenting. We integrate a deep understanding of trauma and attachment with practical strategies for trauma-informed and trauma-preventative parenting.

Our holistic approach considers various factors impacting the parent-child relationship, including parental health, marital dynamics, environmental safety, relational security, cultural influences, and neurodiversity. We recognize that children’s misbehavior often signals underlying imbalances within themselves or their environment. We believe that all behavior communicates something important, and it is the adults’ responsibility to interpret and address these messages to restore balance.

 In our coaching sessions, we focus on:

  • Identifying the impact of past history: Understanding how past experiences and relational patterns affect your current parenting approach.

  • Connecting parenting patterns: Exploring the links between your parenting style, personal history, and any unresolved issues.

  • Decoding child behavior: Analyzing your child’s behavior through the lens of past experiences, potential traumas, and their developmental needs.

  • Applying core concepts: Learning about self-regulation, co-regulation, and emotional capacity to develop attuned parenting skills.

  • Reparative parenting approaches: Implementing strategies to rebuild secure attachment and trust with your child.

  • Understanding neurodiversity: Recognizing how neurodiversity influences your child’s personality, neurobiology, relational system, and resilience.

Our approach is aimed at promoting sensitive, informed parenting practices to nurture a strong and healthy parent-child relationship.

Common Challenges in Parent-Child Relationships We Work With:

  • Your child has drifted away from you.

  • You are struggling to connect with your child.

  • You regret certain parenting decisions that may have damaged your relationship with your child.

  • Your child often ignores you or seems to oppose what you ask or expect.

  • Your child seems to prefer not being around you or spending time with you.

  • You feel you may have missed the signs of your child’s neurodiversity until it was a bit late, leading to misunderstandings and impacting your relationship with them.

  • You discovered that your child is neurodiverse later than expected, leading to misunderstandings and misaligned expectations.

  • You have tried various approaches (such as rewards, positive reinforcement, punishments, consequences, talking, explaining, begging, yelling, or taking away privileges) yet still struggle to see lasting change.

Parenting approaches and theories that inform our reparative parenting coaching:

  • Peaceful Parenting

  • Conscious Parenting

  • Mindful Parenting

  • Neurodiversity

  • ADHD

  • Untigering

  • Low Demand Parenting

  • Therapeutic Parenting

  • Attachment Parenting

  • Attachment Theory

  • Polyvagal Theory

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology

  • Neurobiology of Trauma

Meet Our Parent Coaches

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We are located in the heart of Montclair Township, NJ.

We service Essex County, Bergen County, Morris County, Passaic County, Greater New York, NYC, Florida and Vermont.