Navigating Addiction and Mental Health: Why You and Your Child Both Need a Coach

Complexity warrants expertise beyond what a parent can offer

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As a parent, your love for your child runs deeper than any ocean. So when you see them struggling with addiction or mental and emotional health challenges, every fiber of your being wants to reach out and help set them on a better path. While your support is invaluable, the complexity of these issues highlights the need for additional professional guidance.

Both you and your child can benefit tremendously from working with an experienced family coach like me. As you walk this difficult road together, I will provide expertise to enhance understanding, communication, and sustainable change.

The Complexity of Addiction and Mental and Emotional Health

Addiction and mental and emotional health challenges often have a tangled web of contributing factors — emotional, psychological, physiological and environmental. These could include unresolved trauma, biochemical imbalances, unhealthy and unsafe relationships or unhealthy learned behaviors.

As a parent, you may intuitively sense potential reasons for your child’s struggles. But a professional family coach brings an advanced…