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Coaching Services
Trusted support for your special needs family
Coaching your EXCEPTIONAL Family
I was determined as a new mom of a child with special needs, to keep our family life as normal as possible. But the truth is, after a few years into our parenting, I realized I have special needs and my family has special needs–because our son has special needs.
Often times the special needs of our families has the potential to cause overwhelming stress, compensation for special needs or behaviors, limited social outings, and eventual isolation.
As the Mama to three teenage boys, the oldest with Down’s Syndrome, traits of ASD and nutritional needs from Celiac Disease, I know firsthand what it means to live with the joys, questions, waves of depression and courage of a special needs parent.
I know the courage and fear of becoming an advocate for my child, and the challenge and success of building a collaborative spirit among school and community.
Whether as a consultant or coach or combination of both, I will come along side you as a sounding board and family support. I will work with you to empower you as a special needs parent while helping you discover practical tools to bring you and your family toward growth and freedom. You deserve a team member who holds your best interests and the best interests of your child at heart. This is what our coaching relationship will provide you.
Clients who seek a Special Needs Family Coach are often looking to:
Implement personal care for you, the parent with special needs
Develop and maintain spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual health
Find contentment with your child’s special needs
Build and access community resources
Support siblings and their emotional health
Build and maintain a balanced family life regardless of your child’s needs
Advocate for your child in the school and community
Navigate your child’s therapies and medical needs
Increase family stability
Address behavioral issues
Prepare for outings, events, and vacations with your special needs child Individual and family stress management
Become empowered and strengthened in your parenting
Benefit from a confidential “sounding board” for your specific concerns
Includes topics addressed in “Parenting Coach”
I look forward to helping you discover joy and a new-found freedom in your life as a Special Needs Parent. You don’t have to do it alone.
If you are ready to Thrive in your personal and family life, send me an email and we will set-up your free first 20-minute session.
Bonnie J. Christensen, M.A., CPC, CYPFC
Certified Youth, Parent, Family Coach
www.exceptionalfamiliescoaching.com
Special Needs Family Coach
Member of International Christian Coaching Association
Member of International Coach Federation
bonnie.christensen04@gmail.com
About Coaching
How can I benefit from a Personal Life Coach?
Everyone can benefit from coaching at various stages and transitions of their lives. As your coach, I will come beside you, in a warm and confidential environment where it is safe for you to think out loud. Through trusted dialogue, you will discover your own answers and abilities to thrive in your daily life.
You will find freedom to address fears and obstacles, and gain hope and positive perspective.
Regardless of the challenges you face, you can become confident in creating a positive, healthy home environment for yourself and your children.
Together we will:
FOCUS: on your concerns, feelings, issues at hand. We will focus on the whole picture, including the messages holding you back and the Truth which will move you forward.
ACT: we will brainstorm a plan of action that is workable for your life, along with an accountability structure to keep you supported in your plan.
THRIVE: you will move past obstacles and move forward in a new-found freedom. You will discover a personal, professional, or family life that thrives.
My Coaching Values
This is the place where you will find the support, the knowledge, and tools toward creating the peaceful and productive life you desire.
You come first: you deserve a relationship with a coach who has only your best interests at heart.
Christian Life Coaching addresses the whole-person: The spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual areas of your life entwine together to develop the whole-person.
What Coaching Is
* Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps you produce extraordinary results in your life, career, family or organization
* Clients deepen their learning, improve performance, and enhance quality of life
* In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation. The interaction with the coach creates clarity and moves the client into action.
* Coaching focuses on the present and the future of your life.
* A coach is NOT a therapist, a psychologist, a counselor or someone who specializes in mental illness.
* Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice.
* ICF member coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and application of the coaching process.
-(Source: International Coach Federation)
If you are ready to Thrive in your personal and family life, send me an email and we will set-up your free first 20-minute session.
Bonnie J. Christensen, M.A.
www.Exceptionalfamiliescoaching.com
Certified Youth, Parent, Special Needs Family Coach
Certified Stress Management Coach
Member International Christian Coaching Association
bonnie.christensen04@gmail.com
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