How Can I Help?

Working with parents is one of my most favorite things ever. I’ve been there. I am there. I get it.


A consulting session is designed to address one specific issue. We’ll dig in, identify where you would like to make the most change, and we’ll work on getting some clarity and tools to get the ball moving in the right direction.


Some common issues covered in a consulting session include – but are not limited too:


Masterclasses are designed to be a one session event, where workshops are two or more sessions. Length and duration vary depending on needs and topic.


Prior to booking, you will fill out a questionnaire to determine your needs and for me to create an offer that best suits the situation.

Just some of the examples of the parent coaching topics we can explore:

  • Finding balance between pushing your teen or tween to level up and allowing room for autonomy and fun.
  • Managing expectations when auditioning.
  • Managing disappointment and failure
  • Setting boundaries in and around your teens creative art pursuits.
  • Helping your teen make decisions about their short and long term relationship with their creative art.
  • Making decisions about the pros and cons of going pro before age 18.
  • Managing decisions around social media.
  • Manage your own emotions and helping your teen or tween navigate their own emotional challenges.
  • Helping your teen or tween balance academic and artistic demands.
  • Navigate the complexities of peer pressure, social dynamics, and friendship challenges.
  • Strengthening your teen’s resilience

Masterclasses are designed to be a one session event, where workshops are two or more sessions. Length and duration vary depending on needs and topic.


Prior to booking, you will fill out a questionnaire to determine your needs and for me to create an offer that best suits the situation.

Individualized consulting young adults

Work on topic of their choice to address mindset and confidence.

  • Removing limiting beliefs.
  • Clarifying their hopes, dreams and desires.
  • Setting and pursuing goals.
  • Dealing with lack of social support.
  • Academic, career and professional choices.
  • College or no college – complicated choices.
  • Embracing vulnerability.
  • Building resilience.
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Balanacing academic, artistic and personal demands.
  • Navigating the complexities of peer pressure, social dynamics, and friendship challenges.
  • Decreasing automatic negative thoughts

Individal Coaching for parents, teens and young adults

For some teens and tween art is life.

And life can be messy.

This journey – raising deeply creatively driven kids – had been full of what felt like multiple moments of jumping off of a cliff into a raging river.


The moment one son realized that even though he loved basketball, what made his soul sing was music, and with limited time he chose his guitar and his school play over another season of travel basketball.


The times I wanted to pull my hair out when one of them was heading into a lesson they had begged for unprepared due to lack of practice.


Those times I let go of fear and leaned into doing whatever it took to help our kids live their wildest dreams.

When we had to make financial sacrifices to support them in building skills in the arts they loved.


The moments one was lonely and didn’t have friends who understood him.


The moment we agreed to let our son try to get an agent – and the moment he succeeded.


The moment his younger brother later charmed that same agent in a waiting room and walked out with his own contract as well. I thought “and now there are two,” while I was still processing how I felt about one.


The moments where they put themselves out there – and didn’t get the results they had hoped.


The times where I didn’t know how to help them out of their self-doubt.


The moments when we see them keep going and trying and learning, when they have no certain outcomes.


The times where I didn’t know how to best quell anxiety. Or fear. Or sadness – and had to learn to simply be with them in it no matter how much I wanted to fix it.


Then there were moments where it felt more like jumping out of a plane and not being 100% sure how the parachute worked…


When I had to decide if I was really ready to temporarily close the psychotherapy practice I had worked for years to build and was now finally working on autopilot – to let my kid perform on Broadway.


…and in that same moment trying figure out how I was supposed to get ready for our family to be living in different states in varying combinations while he was working.


Or when our son said, “I don’t want to go to college right now” and we knew that was the right decision – but also knew that was the harder path. And figuring out how to support him while still protecting his autonomy.


And then there were moments the parachute deployed and it felt like a wondrous moment of flying…


When one son made his television debut.


And the opening night on Broadway for another.


When one’s band won a regional battle of the bands contest. And then did it again. And he was named guitar MVP. And knowing how hard he worked to get there.


When I hear all three of them talking about music together – or supporting one another in all of the arts they love.


I’ve made mistakes, had to course-correct, stumbled in the dark and truly dropped the ball at times.


I’ve also figured out many things along the way, using my clinical knowledge, research, conversations with many parents, tweens and teens, feedback from my boys, a heck of a lot of reading, worked on my own mindset and worked to help my boys with theirs and wrote a book on this stuff.


Because one thing I know for sure, I truly enjoy helping others figure this out. I love working with artists and the people who love them.

Dr. Alaina


Although I am a licensed mental health professional, when working with you as your coach, I am not engaged with you in the role of a mental health professional.

Coaching is not psychotherapy, nor is it a substitute for the diagnosis and/or treatment of mental health conditions by a psychologist, psychiatrist, or other licensed mental health professional.

For more information on the difference between coaching and psychotherapy please click the button below