Happy Parents, Happy Children
How To Keep Your Relationship Strong While Raising A Young Family
“Happy Parents, Happy Children: How To Keep Your Relationship Strong While Raising A Young Family” is a course I developed using many elements from Dr. Gottman’s “Bringing Baby Home” and “Emotion Coaching” workshops in addition to Dr. Gottman’s Level 1 Couples Therapy course.
It is a course for expectant parents, new parents and parents with young children. This course caters to heterosexual, same-sex, single and adoptive parents. Having a child is a wonderful, rewarding and exhilarating experience yet it can also be stressful, chaotic and unknown.
As a couple, parents are not prepared for the impact a baby has on their relationship. Lack of sleep, the unavailability of the new mom to her partner, and a variety of new stressors such as financial, balancing work and home life and a significant shift of thinking from a “me” mentality to a “we” mentality, all lead to more conflict.
Bringing Baby Home Workshop
Based on Drs. Julie and John Gottman's over four decades of research, The Bringing Baby Home Program is engaging and informative and offers several methods of instruction such as short lecture, video instruction, music, and time for short exercises with a partner. Communication, connection, expressing fondness and admiration in addition to constructive problem solving, handling conflicts with children effectively when they do arise, emotion coaching as well as how to preserve intimacy and romance are all topics covered.
Both fathers and mothers showed greater sensitivity and responsiveness to their infant’s signals, expressed less hostility towards each other and both, but especially fathers, reported being more involved in parenting and feeling more satisfied and appreciated for their parental contributions.
Personalized Coaching Packages & Pricing
Discovering Each Other Again
- 60 minute Zoom session, 30 minutes with each partner, in order to individualize your sessions
- 5 individualized 1.5 hour sessions, 2 in-home and 3 via Zoom, 2 weeks apart
weekly follow-up support - Gottman workbook & couples card decks
- 4 individual Gottman approved booklets
- Copy of Gottman's book "The 7 Principles For Making Marriage Work"
- Sessions include slide show and video instruction
- Email support for 1 month after last session
Need more time? We have options for ongoing support when you choose this package.
Staycation
- 30 minute Zoom session to determine how I can help
- 3 individualized hour long Zoom sessions to suit both of our schedules
- Sessions include slide show and video instruction
- Email support for 1 month
Date Night
- 30 minute phone call to determine how I can help
- 1 hour phone or video session
- Session includes slide show and video instruction
- Follow up notes