Hi! I'm Chelle.
I help moms of developmentally disabled kids parent and advocate without stress.
Effectively advocate for your child's education and inclusion calmly and confidently?
Understand difficult behaviors with compassion and respect?
Let's talk about how I can support you.
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Advocacy:
You want to give your child a high-quality inclusive education and all of the experiences that will help them succeed. But our educational and other systems aren't setup to automatically include children with difficulties, so you advocate. You advocate in IEP meetings and classrooms, in churches and medical facilities, in sports and extra curricular activities. You are your child's best advocate and it's important work.
And advocacy can be exhausting. It can feel never-ending and isolating. It can feel like you're making a lot of effort for little progress. Sometimes you might feel hopeless or outraged. I help parents learn to advocate without burning out. Learn to tap into your resources and strengths to advocate over the long haul. I'll help you learn to organize your IEP and Advocacy work. Advocacy isn't a one time activity, it's ongoing. You can advocate effectively when you're feeling confident, capable and organized.
behavior:
When a child has challenging behaviors, it can be hard. It's hard to know what to do. It's hard to know how to address it at home. It can be stressful especially when schools and other settings want to exclude or limit your child. Guilt and self-judgement often creep in for parents, leading to more stress.
I help you thoughtfully create a plan to understand and address the behavior at home and at school. You'll learn how to create compassion and care for yourself. You're better able to care for your child when you're calm and cared for yourself.
What I do...
I’m a mindfulness-based Life Coach certified by The Life Coach School.
My work is centered around creating mindful awareness of what is triggering your stress.
We then create a plan together for how to address those stressors in the moment as well as ahead of time.
I then support you to practice your stress-reducing techniques in your real life - not just in the safety of a coaching session.
You'll develop skills that will serve you as a parent and advocate, and that are transferrable to all areas of your life.
Are you ready?
Tell me more about what you find hardest about the IEP process, advocacy or behavior.