Evidence-Based Parent Education & Coaching
Supporting families from pregnancy through age five through education, coaching, and practical guidance rooted in child development, attachment, social-emotional development, and healthy relationships.
Parenting Is a Journey. Support Should Grow With You.
Children change rapidly during their earliest years—and parents are constantly learning alongside them. What worked several months ago may suddenly stop working. A new developmental stage may bring behavior that feels confusing. A growing family can shift routines, relationships, sleep, and expectations almost overnight.
Connected Family Coaching provides personalized support designed around your family’s current stage of life. Whether you’re preparing for your baby’s arrival, navigating the toddler years, trying to understand big emotions, or supporting your preschooler through new developmental milestones, coaching offers practical guidance tailored specifically to your family’s needs.
Together we’ll build confidence, strengthen relationships, and create strategies that fit your everyday life.
Behavior Is Communication
Young children often communicate through behavior before they have the language, regulation, or developmental skills to explain what is happening inside of them.
Connected Family Coaching helps parents move beyond simply asking:
“How do I stop this behavior?”
and become curious about:
“What might my child be communicating, and what are they still learning?”
Understanding the need beneath behavior does not mean removing limits. Connection and boundaries can exist together.
Parents can hold expectations while remaining emotionally available, teach new skills while acknowledging difficult feelings, and help children gradually develop the capacities they are still building.
Bringing Baby Home®
Preparing Your Relationship for Parenthood
Welcoming a baby is an extraordinary experience—and it can also change nearly every part of a couple’s daily life. Sleep, responsibilities, communication, intimacy, time together, and even the ways partners experience one another can shift as two people adjust to caring for a new baby.
Bringing Baby Home® is a research-based program developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman to help couples prepare not only for their baby, but for the transition their relationship is about to experience.
The goal is to help couples enter parenthood with greater understanding of what may change, practical tools for navigating those changes together, and a stronger sense that they are approaching this new season as a team.
What Will We Learn?
Throughout the program, couples learn practical skills they can begin using before their baby arrives and continue using as their family grows, including how to:
- Strengthen friendship and emotional connection as partners
- Communicate needs more clearly during stressful or exhausting moments
- Recognize and respond to each other’s bids for connection
- Navigate conflict in healthier and more productive ways
- Reduce criticism, defensiveness, and patterns that can create distance
- Talk about changing roles, responsibilities, and expectations
- Approach household and parenting responsibilities as a team
- Maintain connection and intimacy as the couple relationship changes
- Understand how becoming parents can affect each partner differently
- Support one another through the emotional adjustment to parenthood
- Understand your baby’s cues and emotional needs
- Build connection and attachment with your baby
- Support your baby’s social-emotional development
- Understand the importance of responsive parenting
- Recognize signs of postpartum depression and other postpartum mood concerns
- Strengthen the foundation of your relationship as your family grows
Why Take Bringing Baby Home®?
Many couples spend months preparing for the practical parts of having a baby—choosing equipment, preparing the nursery, learning about feeding and sleep, and making plans for labor and delivery.
Far fewer are given an opportunity to intentionally prepare for what becoming parents may mean for their relationship.
Bringing Baby Home® creates that space.
Instead of waiting until both partners are exhausted or disconnected to figure out how to communicate about sleep, responsibilities, intimacy, parenting differences, or feeling unsupported, couples can begin having these conversations before those challenges arise.
For couples who already have children, the program can also provide an opportunity to reconnect, strengthen communication, and approach the next stage of family life with greater intention.
This isn’t about creating a perfect relationship or eliminating conflict. Conflict and adjustment are normal parts of family life. The goal is to give couples practical tools for staying connected, understanding one another, repairing when things become difficult, and continuing to nurture their relationship while also caring for their child.
When the couple relationship feels supported, parents have a stronger foundation from which to support their growing family.
Who Is Bringing Baby Home® For?
Bringing Baby Home® can be helpful for:
- Expectant couples
- Couples considering or preparing for pregnancy
- First-time parents
- Couples welcoming another child
- New parents adjusting to life with a baby
- Couples who want to strengthen their relationship before parenthood
- Parents who want practical tools for communication, conflict, and connection
- Couples who want to approach parenting as a connected team
You do not need to be struggling in your relationship to benefit from the program. Bringing Baby Home® can be particularly valuable as preventive relationship education—giving couples tools and conversations they can draw upon before they need them.
Group Bringing Baby Home® Workshop
Approximately six sessions.
A small-group experience offering education, practical exercises, guided conversations, and opportunities to learn alongside other couples preparing for or navigating early parenthood.
Investment: $600 per couple
Private Bringing Baby Home® Coaching
For couples who prefer individualized support, the Bringing Baby Home® curriculum can also be completed privately with Maddie. This allows the education and conversations to unfold within a more personalized setting while maintaining the core Bringing Baby Home® curriculum.
Typical format includes six 90-minute coaching sessions.
Investment: $1,200 per family
Parent Coaching
Personalized coaching designed around your family’s current developmental stage and parenting goals. Common topics include:
- Infant development
- Toddler behavior
- Positive discipline
- Conscious Discipline® strategies
- Emotional regulation
- Behavior as communication
- Sleep expectations
- Family routines
- Parent-child connection
- Parent confidence
- Co-parenting
- Preschool readiness
- Developmental milestones
- Transitions
- Sibling adjustment
Our work is collaborative and individualized. Rather than giving parents a formula to follow, coaching helps you understand your particular child while finding strategies that fit your family’s values and everyday life.
Investment
60-Minute Parent Coaching Session — $200
90-Minute Parent Coaching Session — $275
Developmental Consultation
Sometimes You Simply Need Clarity
Not every parenting question requires ongoing coaching. Sometimes parents need focused guidance around one specific concern.
A Developmental Consultation provides dedicated time to talk through what you are noticing, better understand what may be developmentally happening, consider practical strategies, and leave with clearer next steps.
Common consultation topics include:
- Challenging behaviors
- Potty training
- Sleep concerns
- Preschool or kindergarten readiness
- Emotional regulation
- Developmental questions
- Parenting strategies
- Family transitions
- Age-appropriate expectations
- Routines
90-Minute Developmental Consultation
Investment: $275
Coaching Packages
For families who would like more than a single session or consultation, coaching packages provide continued support through a particular challenge, developmental stage, or season of family life.
Starter Package
Ideal for families seeking focused support around one parenting challenge. Includes:
- Three coaching sessions
- Personalized action plan
- Email support between sessions
Investment: $550
Growth Package
Designed for families wanting ongoing support through an important developmental stage. Includes:
- Six coaching sessions
- Personalized parenting plan
- Developmental guidance
- Email support between sessions
- Curated resource recommendations
Investment: $1,100
Signature Journey Package
Comprehensive coaching designed to support families through a significant transition or extended period of the early parenting journey.
Includes:
- Ten coaching sessions
- Bringing Baby Home® integration when applicable
- Developmental milestone guidance
- Conscious Discipline® coaching
- Personalized family plan
- Email support
- Curated resource library
Investment: $2,000
Is Connected Family Coaching Right for You?
Connected Family Coaching is designed for expectant parents, individuals and couples preparing for parenthood, first-time parents, parents of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and growing families.
It may be particularly helpful for parents who want to better understand their child’s development, navigate challenging behaviors or big emotions, build greater confidence in their parenting, and create family relationships grounded in emotional connection and healthy development.
Our Philosophy
At Intentional Healing Counseling & Coaching, we believe healthy families are built through connection, understanding, curiosity, and intentional relationships.
Parenting isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about remaining curious, learning alongside your child, and responding with increasing confidence and compassion as your family grows.
Children do not need perfect parents. Parents do not need perfect children.
Families need relationships with room for boundaries, connection, learning, repair, and growth. Whether you’re preparing for your first baby or navigating the ever-changing early years, Maddie is honored to walk alongside you as you build a connected family—one stage at a time.