Hi, I’m Katy
I love working with kids and I’m good at it especially the ‘problem’ ones.
So not only do I have the professional expertise, I have hands on real life experience. I completely and totally understand the battle it is to be the kind of parent you want to be!
I spent years trying to juggle long hours and running an intense and demanding business with trying to provide a good family life for my kids, manage their sometimes very challenging behaviour and still have some life for myself (yeah right!)
With complete honesty and transparency I didn’t do a particularly good job of it. However like most parents instinctively do I did what I thought was the best at the time.
Considering my profession it was a hard pill to swallow accepting that I could work wonders with other people’s kids but faced so many difficulties with my own.
With that said I understand and have first hand experience of how hard it truly is to ask for help and support with parenting, I think we have the misconception that we are just supposed to know what to do and if we don’t we’re ‘bad parents’.
SO YOU ASK, WHY THE GOOD ENOUGH PARENT?
I want to use my knowledge, experience and hindsight to support and empower other parents to not feel judged, to feel ‘good enough’ and to have some life for themselves too.
As parents we just need to feel GOOD ENOUGH
Our values
Our values create the standard for the experience you have of working with us and the results you achieve
They are the foundation of what we value, hold in high regard and are reflected in everything we do by
Empowering YOU through our knowledge, expertise and experience
Not judging YOU and showing acceptance, support, understanding,
empathy and care
Respecting YOU by working calmly, discretely and sincerely in an exclusive and trustworthy manner
Getting YOU to be creative, thinking outside the box with fun, energy and inspiration
Harnessing YOUR potential by making possibilities into opportunities to achieve and succeed
The E.M.P.O.W.E.R Principles
Environment - Creating a secure foundation for your family framework underpinned by mutual family values. A safe base supported by certainty, familiarity and trust
Management - Building a structure of expectations to live within, each individual knowing what’s required of them and what they can expect from others. Being able to access a toolbox of creative and effective strategies and solutions for when behaviour needs some repair and restoration
Proactivity – “Catch ‘em being good” to move forward towards the behavior you want to see, learning how to positively reinforce that you want to see more of. Be proactively creative to get the behavioral changes you want.
Opportunity – Being on the lookout for every chance to create exciting and interesting experiences that contribute to learning and mastering new skills as well as just having FUN
Worth – Creating and valuing quality time for and with individuals to celebrate and enjoy their uniqueness. Learning to accept, mutually respect and acknowledge their diversity, values and beliefs. Really getting to know, understand and appreciate each other
Emotion – Developing your emotional intelligence – expression not suppression. Understanding emotions and naming them, becoming aware of how they impact on yourself and others, being able to recognize how you and others feel and how to react. Creating an openness around emotional expression
Rapport – Connection, communication and clarity. Being aware of and using all aspects of language to achieve the 3 C’s - verbal, non- verbal, body language. Engaging with others using positive interactive skills. Having clear expectations and ensuring everyone is listening and being heard.