Parent coaching is powerful in that we hear from you about your family experiences on the ground, identify both immediate goals and visions for the future, and help you define supports, strategies, and communication styles that can improve your quality of life as a family, using relationship-based approaches.

When engaged in parent coaching, we pull from our knowledge base and experiences across a range of clinical ideas and strategies. These include RDI, declarative language & co-regulation, interoception, PDA and Neurodiversity Affirming practices, trauma informed practices, sensory processing considerations, Collaborative Proactive Solutions (Ross Greene), and more.

Parent coaching sessions can be scheduled on an as needed basis. Some families request to meet regularly - for example, weekly or monthly - while others reach out to check in and gain help when wanting to trouble shoot something specific.

Sessions can take place either in person or over telehealth.

Cost is $120/hour

Parent coaching is powerful in that we hear from you about your family experiences on the ground and help you define supports strategies and communication styles to improve your quality of life as a family, and meet your family goals.

When parent coaching, we use knowledge and ideas from a range of sources including RDI concepts, PDA Affriming Approaches, Neurodiversity Affirming Approaches, and

RDI, or Relationship Development Intervention®, is a family-centered approach that fosters an individual’s growth across areas including flexibility, resilience, sharing of memories, curiosity about another person's thoughts and feelings, engagement in reciprocal conversations and interactions and attunement with nonverbal communication, by focusing first and foremost on relationship development between the individual and caregivers. This approach addresses the core developmental areas at the heart of social connection.

Parents work closely with Linda Murphy or Lizz Ramirez, our two RDI Consultants (and currently the one two in Massachusetts!) to carefully introduce challenges, add variations, give their learner greater social responsibility, and give their learner opportunities to make adjustments within an interaction moment to moment. As individuals become more competent at adjusting to change, their resilience increases, as does their desire for continued challenges and dynamic interactions. This approach, developed by Dr. Steve Gutstein and Dr. Rachelle Sheely, is based on research in social cognitive development.

Starting out, families typically meet with their RDI Consultant twice a month either in person or remotely. Between consultation sessions, families work through homework assignments that are developed with their family and learner in mind. RDI uses video clips, audio clips and written anecdotes and reflections of parent/child or caregiver/learner interactions to monitor progress, to demonstrate how to guide a learner in a certain area, and to teach through parent reflection and discussion.

Because RDI is future-focused, it offers families hope. We work toward improved quality of life for your learner and family in the long term, whatever that means for each family. With RDI, parents find they become increasingly thoughtful in their day-to-day interactions with their learner, become empowered, and begin to realize the important role they can play in their learners’ social development

We offer informational presentations on RDI to help parents and medical professionals understand how this therapy effectively addresses and strengthens social competence and relationships. We also meet with families individually. Contact our office by phone or email to set up an in person appointment, or schedule a phone intake.

We encourage you to visit www.rdiconnect.com for more detailed information on the RDI program.