Couples Coaching for Parents That Work as a Team
This programme is designed to address the unique dynamics and challenges faced by couples who are both deeply committed to their careers, while navigating the responsibilities of parenthood.
This programme is ideal for you if you and your partner are both either working in leadership roles, entrepreneurs, or highly skilled professionals committed to a demanding work schedule. You are having a hard time as a couple and as a team due to combined work commitments. You both really want to make things work for your careers as well as parental responsibilities.
You have tried working through your tension points or tough decisions yourselves but could not resolve them. And you feel ready to bring in an independent facilitator to help you land the right solutions that work for your family.
Together we will address communication barriers, misunderstandings, or conflicts that may arise in balancing career and parenting responsibilities. We will develop strategies for negotiating roles and responsibilities within your relationship and develop a lasting framework for achieving balance and mutual support in both career and parenting roles.
At the end of our time together you will rediscover trust in each other, you will have let both your frustrations and fears out and you will have clarity on your priorities as a couple and as a team.
How it works
We will work together for 2 months. Together we will agree on the frequency of your sessions - I have found weekly 90-minute sessions most effective in the first month and weekly 60-minute sessions in the second month - with a sprinkle of an additional shorter session here and there when times are tough.
I don’t believe in a pre-set number of sessions for couples coaching - I tailor each program to your unique needs, challenges, and goals. I will not charge you extra if you have more frequent sessions and I will not charge you less if you have fewer – you are paying me for my experience and the end result not the hourly time we spend in sessions.
I KNOW that by taking our time to get clear on what you need we will land on the right amount of time together. Think of me as an unlimited personal trainer you are hiring for 2 months with guaranteed results!
Programme Flow:
We will kick things off with an initial joint assessment session. It’s an opportunity for us to get to know each other, explore your family values, context of your careers and your parenting styles. Think of it as me popping over for a virtual cup of tea with you both.
After that we will have one individual session with each of you to get into your individual values, needs and frustrations that may be a little more difficult to express when you are together.
We will then regroup and have lots of fun with painting your family vision and explore how both your career aspirations fit into that.
We will dive into how your current career and parenting models contribute to or deter from your family vision.
We will have some hard but important conversations about what needs to change for you both to move forward as a team.
Halfway through the second month we will work together on your commitments to each other and agree on accountability and actions going forward.
And last but not least you will walk away with clarity, calm, and trust in each other. You will move past your challenges and better understand each other and your family unit to tackle the next challenge life may bring!