40 Years of Clinical Experience with Challenging Kids!​

Paul has over 40 years of experience working successfully with neurodivergent kids and their families. He is the developer of Intensive Family-Focused Therapy, a model of mental health care for children and teens with

serious and persistent behavioral challenges. 

 

However, not all kids need this level of intensive treatment. Many families struggle with behavioral challenges that can be addressed effectively with parent coaching. This can be a much better fit for some families,

as well as a more affordable option. 

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Please note that you are not the cause of your child's challenging condition, but you can absolutely change how it shows up at home. 

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends parent behavior training as a first‑line treatment for disruptive behavior found in numerous childhood mental health conditions. 

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Learn How to Help Your Child:​

• Be consistently respectful

• Better regulate their strong negative emotions

• Reduce or even eliminate temper tantrums/emotional dysregulation

• Follow directions peacefully, including kids who are oppositional or highly demand avoidant

• Stop the constant arguing

• Stay caught up on homework without a fight

• Do chores without being told to do them (seems like a dream, we know!)

• Get up to an alarm and be on time for school without being nagged

• Be kind to siblings

• Improve communication in the family and help rebuild attachments and connection

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"Battle-Tested" to Work for You​​

Everything you'll learn from Paul has been battle tested, i.e., these strategies and interventions have been refined over many years with countless families

so we know that they really do work.​

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How Parent Coaching Differs from Psychotherapy

Parent coaching is a structured, skills‑focused service that teaches you exactly what to do and say in the moments that are hardest at home—mornings, homework, screens, arguing, and meltdowns. It is more practical and directive than psychotherapy: we break down specific situations and teach you exactly how to improve problematic behavior. You'll try these changes at home and we adjust them together. The goal is clear: fewer blow‑ups, more cooperation, and a more peaceful, loving family.

 

Psychological therapy, by contrast, is formal mental health treatment that focuses more on emotions, thoughts, past experiences, and diagnosable conditions like anxiety, depression, or trauma. In traditional therapy, the “identified patient” is usually the child or teen; in parent coaching, you are the primary client because your responses and routines are where you create change in your family. Parent Coaching does not replace psychotherapy, but it can be an important addition to it. 

Many families benefit from both: therapy to support a child’s inner world, and parent coaching to turn that insight into concrete, day‑to‑day changes that make life at home work better.

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