Choose the level of support that matches where you are at in your parenting or identity shift for more ease, confidence & connection
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An Approach that is more than Tools or a Strategy that Transcends Ages and Stages.
Support for Empowered, Connected Parenting.
Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Child Without Losing Yourself in the Process
Our work focuses specifically on you and your relationship with your child. Rather than quick-fix parenting hacks, I support you to develop long-term strategies rooted in neuroscience, attachment science, and emotional development.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or struggling with self-criticism, parent coaching supports you to build emotional resilience, self-trust, and healthier relationships.
Parent coaching can help you:
Respond calmly instead of reacting
Navigate your child’s big emotions and challenging behaviour
Build secure attachment
Break reactive parenting cycles
Feel more confident in your parenting decisions
Make decisions that are aligned with your deeply held values rather than from guilt, pressure or overwhelm
Move from control and correction to connection, leadership and collaborationUnderstand how your childhood experiences impact your parenting
Work alongside your child rather than against them to build skills, resilience and a strong relationship
Supporting parents to develop emotional regulation, self-awareness, and confidence.
Parent coaching is especially helpful for those who:
Want a deeper connection with their child
Want a relationship that will weather storms, infused by trust, deep love & collaboration.
Mothers who identify as empathic and sensitive
Mothers who feel overwhelmed, irritated and a lack of joy in parenting
Mothers who have a difficult relationship with their own mother, feel undernurtured or undermothered
The Wayfinding Session
Clarity, direction and immediate recalibration when things feel tangled.
The Wayfinding Session is a focused 60 minute consultation designed to help you navigate oneparenting challenge with clarity, insight, and a personalised plan forward with Dr Shani Macaulay. See below for more.
The Lap is now offering one-off parenting consults.
The Wayfinding Session is a focused 60 minute consultation designed to help you navigate one parenting challenge with clarity, insight, and a personalised plan forward with Dr Shani Macaulay.
Just as a GP doesn't treat every health issue in one consultation, you don't need months of coaching to shift every parenting challenge.
Sometimes one carefully targeted intervention changes everything.
Issues that I can help with:
bedtime battles
sibling fighting
emotional outbursts
mum guilt
separation anxiety
connection has disappeared
shouting cycle
constant nagging
You leave knowing exactly
why it's happening
what's maintaining it
what to do this week
A personalised, supportive parenting journey to help you understand your patterns, strengthen connection, and parent with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
This 6-week program combines private 1:1 coaching that is expert-led, all held in a nurturing, non-judgemental space. Together, we’ll curate a pathway that supports you, your child, and your family system — creating change that lasts well beyond the six weeks.
✔ Six 60-minute private coaching sessions
✔ 30-minute discovery call
✔ Access to a high-quality parenting course (curated for your needs)
✔ Fully online, from the comfort of home
The 6 Week Intensive
A six-week journey for mothers who want more than strategies- they want to understand themselves, their children and to create a calmer, more connected family life.
This is for you if you are yearning to build your life around who you and your child truly are.
A nurturing program with 6 private sessions, an online program, personalised feedback & supported integration.
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Why Coaching Works
We all have blind spots. Reflection is a key part to making any changes in our life. Research shows that the quality of our own early parenting shapes our future relationships.
It also shows that this can be changed with reflection and making sense of our stories.
These patterns are often implicit, that is they can occur beyond our conscious awareness.
They are often learned before we can walk and talk. Or they are so habitual to us and our family system that we keep doing what is familiar (even when it’s not serving us).
Frustratingly wanting is not enough.
We can desperately want something but if we don’t engage in a more active and constructive reflective process then we end up in the same cycles.
This is where coaching comes in.
A coach reflects back to you patterns that may or may not serve you. We acknowledge that you are not broken, there’s nothing to ‘fix’, you are doing the best you can with the tools you have.
We create stepping stones from where you are now to where you want to be.
It can feel awkward at first to show up bravely and vulnerably in trying something new. But eventually it will just become the new way you do things.
This is my wish for you- that over time the change that you long to see will become effortless.
“Together we unpick the tangled threads so you can weave your own story”
FULL PROGRAM DETAILS
Those of you wanting to do a deep dive into your patterns & build a richer, more compassionate relationship with yourself and your children. This will often have broader, positive flow on effects to your other relationships and truly is a long term investment. You can revisit this content, delving deeper into your personal growth as you are called to.
Build your capacity to understand your own needs, to get them met as well as how your patterns help or hinder this
How to parent from your values and how this forms your parenting lighthouse
How children make sense of their world
How our children’s nervous system works and how the relationship with their parent or primary caregiver is crucial in nervous system regulation
How the quality of connection and attention from you impacts our child and their relationship blueprint
How to communicate with your child and partner using a process that defuses tension and communicates your needs in collaboration rather than confrontation
How to parent with love and leadership – how to hold boundaries and consequences with compassion
Emotional intelligence - what it is and how to increase it
Understanding our child’s world to reduce stress and make our parenting more effective and peaceful
Increase attunement, joy and creativity in your parenting!