Life coaching provides you with the tools to take your ordinary life and make it extraordinary. Michelle works mostly with parents involved with a high-conflict co-parent, teaching them how to disengage from attempts to stay in an over-enmeshed, toxic dynamic.
Unlike therapy, which dives into your past to uncover painful experiences, coaching focuses on the present moment, which changes attitudes formed from past experiences. Coaching gets you in touch with what your true essential self wants out of life. Michelle asks powerful questions to help you find the answers you already have.
Sessions are psychoeducational and skills-based. You leave each one with practical tools you can use this week, not next month, grounded in nervous system regulation, SAFE™ + BIFF® communication, and parallel parenting.
With 20+ years as a California litigator*, 20 years as a Martha Beck Certified Wayfinder Coach, New Ways for Families® Certified Instructor (HCI), trained in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing®, and her own lived experience finding her way out of a high-conflict co-parenting situation, Coach Michelle brings deep empathy, expertise, and strategy to every session. 1-to-1 Co-Parenting Coaching helps parents regain control, protect their peace, and strengthen their connection with their children, even in the most challenging situations.
Michelle was instrumental in helping me navigate a high-conflict divorce where the mother of my young children chose to have very little contact with the kids for almost nine months. I highly recommend you hire Michelle as your coach — I am very confident it will be one of the smartest decisions you will make.
I highly recommend Michelle. She is VERY good at what she does. The total package: totally reliable, deeply knowledgeable, excellent advice, wonderfully kind, empathetic and understanding. She consistently makes hard things easier. My nervous system has benefited tremendously.
Michelle has been a Godsend for myself and my family. After several sessions, I was able to establish solid boundaries and develop coping mechanisms for triggering situations. My family and I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel — we couldn't have done it without Michelle's help.
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