Does every day feel like an uphill battle?
- Is your child or teen driving you crazy?
- Are you trying lots of things without much results?
- Are you exhausted from never ending behavior challenges?
- Are you tired of too many negative interactions with your kid?
- Are you worried sick about your child or teen’s mental health?
Parenting is never easy, but when you're overwhelmed with doubt about how to support your child, something has to change.
There’s got to be a better way!
You know what you want for your child:
- Grow, be happy and enjoy their childhood
- Gain confidence in their abilities
- Learn how to self-manage their emotions and behaviors
- Become closer to you and develop trust and understanding
- Embrace new experiences and challenges
- Blossom gradually into an independent young adult
But you're not sure of how to make it happen.
That's exactly what I do
I help parents like you gain confidence, understand how to navigate challenging situations, and raise a confident, resourceful, resilient, and independent child.
Helping you solve age-specific challenges
From navigating potty training to managing meltdowns, from addressing screen time and homework, and from supporting transitions to moving out of the house to living independently, raising a neurodivergent child presents unique challenges at every stage. I'm here to partner with you, addressing each situation in a way that honors your child's individual needs and fosters their growth to reach their fullest potential.
I will help you gain confidence in your parenting and improve the wellbeing of your family.
Children
Teenagers
Young Adults
Turn the tide and gain confidence in your parenting
Behavior is important data
Addressing neurodivergent behaviors with strategies used with neurotypical children does not work and can often make things worse. Let's learn together about what your child's behavior really means!
Co-created solutions
I help parents address every day challenge related to raising a neurodivergent child or teen. Together, we co-create solutions that work for your family to reduce stress and improve wellbeing for everyone.
Equipping your child
Together we'll empower your child to manage their challenges while tapping into their strengths. The ultimate goal is to intentionally nurture positive traits that will serve them for the rest of their lives.
Tangible results from happy parents
It was love after the first video!! I stumbled upon Christian's brilliant video about emotional regulation and my wife and I became clients not long after that. We have two neurodivergent children, and Christian offered us the space and the tools to analyze our thoughts and model a better life for them as they grow. It was an organic process and jived well with our parenting style. We are grateful that someone like Christian was there to help guide us. We will be lifelong clients with Christian as our children grow older and we need help. I HIGHLY recommend that you take the time to check out all the content Christian creates, after you do that, just imagine getting that same level of interest and expertise, but 1 on 1... It's a no-brainer.
Greg Richards
Father of two neurodivergent children
We met Christian when my son was mentally struggling with the toll his illness was taking on him, and just had to withdraw him from school. Christian's quiet, thoughtful manner (and amazing beard!) helped my son to overcome his anxiety at meeting people. He helped me understand my son and enabled me to create a constructive space where my we could both connect. I cannot recommend Christian highly enough, he is a child whisperer and the confidence he gave me has helped me to forgive myself for past failures and to understand that we all need to give one another more grace and forgiveness. My son is back running and climbing and regaining his confidence and talking with excitement about going back to school for the end of the year. If you are considering using Christian, don't hesitate — it is the best decision I could have made.
Yvonne Raleigh
Initially we worked with him as an occupational therapist when our son very young, and with Christian's help, he went from needing an aide in school (kindergarten) to being without an aide by 2nd grade. Furthermore, he educated us, as parents, on how to model behavior, guide our son, and support his development. During the next 10 years, our son made significant improvements, but his transition into the teenaged years introduced new challenges involving boundaries, electronics use, and anger issues. We returned to Christian, and over a period of three months, Christian created a very safe and open space for us to creatively explore our issues, gently challenge our thoughts, and create a new way for us to interact with our son and hold him accountable. This was a lot of work on our end, but led to dramatic improvements in our son's behavior, and the tensions in our family relaxed. We all learned to give each other grace but also hold each other accountable. We are forever grateful to Christian and will always have him on speed dial to help us as we continue to grow and learn as a family.
Anna-Maria Hays Putnam
Christian's specialty in supporting neuro divergent kids and parents stood out to me as someone who could uniquely help me understand and support my child as well as us nervous parents. We have been given a lot of tools and methods for communicating and supporting our child in navigating life without shaming or blaming! We've been able to navigate tantrums, boundaries and help her in her relationships. He is kind and supportive and focuses on what works for your family's needs. Not what is conventionaly proper.
Mindy Worel
When I met Christian, my son was struggling with "traditional" therapies. The techniques, strategies, and parenting skills that Christian taught me made sense and really helped me and my son. When my son and I have a "dispute", his solution would be "let's talk to Mr. Chris" because of his deep trust. But now, my son and I have excellent communication skills with each other and work out our issues through conversations and reflections. My mother often says how grateful she is for my work with Christian as she sees how much it has helped our entire family. I will never forget when I passed the California Bar Exam in 2014. I told my mother and son, and then emailed Christian — I had so much gratitude for this wonderful man that I felt he truly contributed to my success. I’ve accomplished so many things that I don't know how I ever would have without him. Christian helped connect the dots in complex problems, and he’s given me the tools to be the best version of me. Through working with Christian, my self-confidence, self-awareness, and self-acceptance has grown. Christian is kind, receptive, intelligent, and he makes me laugh when I really didn't think it was possible.
Michelanne Hrubic
Mother of son diagnosed with Autism
Christian helped me and my husband figure out what type of parents we want to be. We had some specific issues with our toddler that we needed support on, and Christian gave us gentle, respectful tools and exercises to try. These gave us a sense of purpose and focus because we were taking control of the situation, but most importantly they were fun for our son. He responded brilliantly every time and while things are of course not perfect we all feel more confident and relaxed. Christian is kind, thoughtful and intuitive, he listens deeply and made us feel like we were already good parents, we just needed a little extra support from an expert. He blends traditional coaching techniques of listening and asking thought provoking questions with his experience of knowledge of children and their development. I highly recommend working with Christian!
Jennifer Elworthy
They're often given boilerplate advice that is either unrealistic to implement or that only addresses the outward symptoms without understanding what really drives the behavior.
And so they ask themselves: “What’s wrong with me and why aren’t we making any progress?”
MyApproach
You'll never hear me offering parent advice that you can easily find online. Your child is as unique as your parenting style!
Together, we will tackle your unique challenges and co-create solutions that work for your family.
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What you can expect,
when we work together
- You’ll have a safe and non-judgmental space to discuss difficult situations.
- Together, we will tackle the most challenging situations for your family.
- I will meet with you (the parent) weekly for 3 months via Zoom.
- We’ll sit down and decode frustrating behaviors.
- We will co-create strategies & solutions that work for your family.
- You’ll receive unlimited support in between sessions via messages & emails.
- We will co-create strategies & solutions that work for your family.
Have you faced this kind of challenges?
- Daily challenges keep coming up. You’re exhausted. You’re frustrated. You’re worried. You’re embarrassed.
- You need something different but you’re not even sure of where to start.
- You have talked to your pediatrician, to family members, to other parents, you’ve read parenting books… but it hasn’t provided you with the answers you’re looking for.
- Insurance and school covered services have not been enough.
This is the kind of impact you'll see
Coaching the Parent
This episode of the Autism Resource Podcast features an interview I did with Gilda Evans about my approach and philosophy.
Find calm and relief for the whole family
Nothing gives me more joy than witnessing parents become more confident in their parenting and share how the wellbeing of the entire family has improved!
