Parent Coaching

At Leadem Counseling and Consulting Services coaching involves a method of assisting parents/caregivers to develop cooperative and healthy relationships with their children through the use of natural and logical consequences rather than punishment. A Positive Behavioral Support plan will create a spirit of cooperation in the family.

Our staff will help parents expand their awareness, understanding, and knowledge of the function of their child's behavior while developing alternative parenting skills. Parent Coaching encourages an environment of mutual respect in an emotional democracy.

Services are available to help parents with the following challenges:

• Developing Behavioral Positive Support Intervention Plans
• Building Parent/Child Communication
• Developing Strategies to Discourage Your Child's Experimentation With Alcohol/Drugs
• Discipline Using Logical/Natural Consequences Rather Than Rewards/Punishments
• Special Education Advocacy and Behavioral Positive Support Plans
• Developing 504 Accommodation Plans
• Independent Testing for Special Education Eligibility
• Monitoring Student's Academic Progress

Positive Behavioral Support

At Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services, we believe that the emotional demands placed on our children in the socially challenging and academically competitive school environments can result in behavioral problems and generate obstacles to developing important life skills. We believe that all behavior has a function and that all too often a child's challenging behavior is trivialized by dismissing it as a demonstration of rebellion, attention seeking, or an opposition to authority. These are not explanations for the behaviors but labels that we have come to accept as way of identifying the alleged "cause" of the behavior.

School systems move much too quickly to develop behavioral interventions that are aimed at eliminating the problematic behavior when the behavior is more often only a symptom of the problem.

The behavior appears to be the "problem" because it causes others a problem.

We are committed to understanding the multi-faceted function of the behaviors on which we are attempting to intervene through a Positive Behavioral Support Plan. We believe that a child's behavior often serves many functions and the functions are rooted in the child's stressful relationship with peers, siblings, teachers, and parents. Most of us would prefer to identify a simple cause/effect relationship that would explain why our children are struggling academically or socially. To that end many will engage in useless "bashing" in an effort to blame someone for the "problem." We believe that we must all work together to build a plan that fully examines the nature of each of these relationships and develop Behavioral Positive Support.

We believe that each participant of the child’s life must examine the role they play for we are either a part of the solution or a part of the problem.

We are committed to supporting students, parents, and educators in their efforts to reduce the negative impact of the unavoidable stressors our children face in our schools and communities. Let us know how we can help.

Focal Points
Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services provides private and confidential Behavioral Positive Support to children/adolescents and their families who are struggling with personal, family, and school-based challenges that are threatening the young person'’s social, emotional, and academic success.

In the 20 years of service to families, we have learned that "blood is thicker than therapy". The skills we bring to the counseling relationship will not be effective with children unless they have the loving and Positive Behavioral Support of their families. The parent/child relationship, when available, must be strengthened because it is primary. We do not believe that the child/therapist relationship should be one of complete autonomy and therefore we practice from a systems perspective which aims to eliminate the needs for secrets.

Our client is the family and the school, whenever possible, and not the solitary student. We remain committed to open communication between therapist, child, school, and parents. We avoid becoming trapped in the confidences with children that might diminish their relationship with their parents.

Services are available to help your child with the following challenges:

• School Avoidance
• Separation Anxiety
• Coping With Chronic Illness
• Building Social Competence
• Managing Powerful Peer Personalities
• Overcoming Peer Group Anxiety
• Understanding Parental Alcoholism
• Minimizing Family Conflict
• Working Through Divorce & Separation
• Avoiding Drug & Alcohol Use through Behavioral Positive Support
• Transitioning - High School to College
• Anger Reduction
• Accepting Imperfection
• Building Friendships
• Improving Teacher Relationships
• Behavioral Positive Support Plans