Helping children and teens build calm, confidence and coping skills - wherever life takes them.
Practical online child coaching for English-speaking youth, expat families, international families, and third culture kids navigating anxiety, transitions, emotional regulation, and big life changes. Skills your child can actually use - at school, at home, and anywhere in the world.
Ages served
Online · global
Years working with youth
Meet your coach
A warm hello from me to your family
Press play for a short introduction. I'll share how I work with youth, what makes coaching different, and what you can expect from our first session together.
Why families work with me
The everyday challenges I help children and teens navigate
If something on this list sounds familiar, you're in the right place. These are the moments where skills - not just reassurance - make the difference.
What makes this different
Coaching is not therapy- and that's the point
Therapy and coaching both have a place. Here's how skills-based coaching with children compares to traditional therapy.
Traditional therapy
Often diagnosis & treatment focused
- Focus on assessment, diagnosis & symptom relief
- Talk-based, processing past experiences
- Clinical setting & framework
- Often longer-term, open-ended
- Parents typically less involved in sessions
- Insurance and clinical licensing required
Coaching for kids & teens
Practical, skill-building & forward-focused
- Practical tools & real-life skill building
- Role-play, games & active rehearsal
- Practice between sessions, at home & school
- Nervous system regulation built in
- Parents involved when appropriate
- Goal-focused, time-bound support
My approach
What sessions actually look like
A grounded blend of child mental health expertise, children's yoga, mindfulness, and somatic tools - woven together in a way that feels playful, never clinical.
Nervous system education
Age-appropriate language so children understand what's happening in their body.
Breathwork & somatic tools
Simple practices that calm the body before the mind can catch up.
Children's yoga & movement
Movement-based regulation that's playful and physical.
Mindfulness for kids & teens
Short, sensory practices your children actually want to use.
Role-play & games
Skills are rehearsed, not just talked about.
Personalized calming plans
A toolkit your child takes into school, friendships and home.
How coaching works
Five gentle steps from first hello to lasting skills
90-minute Parent + Child Consultation
We meet together to understand strengths, challenges, and the goals that matter most to your family.
Personalized Support Plan
A clear, practical roadmap of tools, practices, and themes tailored to your child.
Weekly Coaching Sessions
Engaging one-to-one sessions blending mindfulness, movement, role-play and games.
Practice at Home
Simple worksheets, mini-missions, and breath practices to use between sessions.
Build Lasting Skills
Your child leaves with a toolbox they'll carry into school, friendships, and every move ahead.
Research
The evidence behind somatic, skills-based coaching for kids
Coaching isn't therapy - but the tools we use (breathwork, movement, mindfulness, nervous system education) are backed by a growing body of peer-reviewed research on children's emotional health.
“Slow, diaphragmatic breathing practices reliably down-regulate sympathetic nervous system activity and improve emotion regulation in children and adolescents, supporting their use as a first-line self-regulation tool.”
“Yoga-based interventions for children and adolescents produced significant improvements in anxiety, depression, self-regulation and quality of life, with the strongest effects when programmes combined movement, breathing and mindfulness components.”
“Interoception - the ability to sense and interpret internal bodily signals - is a foundational mechanism for children's emotion regulation, and body-based practices that build interoceptive awareness support healthy social-emotional development.”
“A digital socio-emotional competence training for young children produced significant gains in emotion understanding, empathy and social skills, with high engagement from children and parents - supporting digital delivery as an effective format for building everyday social-emotional skills.”
Built for families wherever life takes you.
Sessions run online from anywhere in the world. We work across time zones with expat families, globally mobile families, digital nomad families, international school families, third culture kids, and English-speaking families everywhere.
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