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You don’t have to let drama, stress, and worry overshadow your life and relationships. You can change your life and your relationships today!

If you are ready to build healthy relationships with those you love, if you are ready to reclaim the life you’ve hoped for, I’m here to help. Let me support you and be your guide. You don’t have to live in my hometown to work with me; I help teens, young adults and moms from all over the world with individual coaching and group programs over zoom. I also see clients in my private practice in Houston, Texas. I’ve created multiple ways to serve you and your family. If you still have questions or need help you can contact me and I’ll help determine the best way to meet your needs.

Power Your Parenting® Program

Do you have a tween or teen? Are you tired of the conflict, stress and worry? Do you want to be prepared for the teenage years? Then this program is for you. My Power Your Parenting®Program is a field-tested system that has changed the lives of hundreds of moms from all over the world. This holistic approach teaches you how to dial down the drama, reconnect with your teen, and reclaim your life.

This seven-week program delivers a life-changing, inspirational, and practical message directly to your inbox for forty-nine days. It also gives you the structure and accountability you need to get out of living reactively so that you form new healthy patterns and create the life you want. The program starts with an assessment in order to get to know you and your teen. Each week you will have a Monday check-in where you will be able to identify—and celebrate—new insights, aha! moments, and breakthroughs.

But the best part of the program are the weekly meetings with a small group of moms who are also in the trenches with their teens. You’ll meet on zoom with other like-minded moms, and receive individual coaching from me. You will see real change each week and be validated, encouraged, and energized by the other like-minded moms. Empowered with proactive strategies for parenting and life, you’ll experience new interactions with your son or daughter and have a renewed gratitude for your life. You’ll be amazed at how different your life can be in just seven weeks.

Dial Up the Dream Book Club Plus

Do you have a son or daughter in their late teens to mid-twenties, then Dial Up the Dream Book Club PLUS is the program you want. Parenting these emerging young adults may be the most important mothering you will do. Your daughter is learning how to manage her life on her own and she is not going to do that seamlessly. This is because the brain is not fully developed till age twenty-five. Though your daughter is considered an adult at age eighteen there is a Maturity Gap. This is why these are confusing years for moms.

  • What does it mean to let go?
  • How can I stay close to my daughter when she seems so disinterested in me?
  • What should I expect?
  • What’s my role?
  • How can I positively influence my daughter when she is out of the home?
  • What do I do with all of these intense feelings now that my daughter is not at home? How can I dial down my worry and stress?

This is a six-week online program for an intimate group of moms. We meet every week on zoom and learn how to apply the principles from my bestselling book, Dial Up the Dream: Make Your Daughter’s Journey to Adulthood the Best—For Both of You.

But it’s more than a book club. You will also receive individualized coaching each week in your group call with like-minded moms. You will be able to try out new strategies and apply them to your life and have my support while doing it. This program is guaranteed to bring you peace, clarity and a better relationship with your emerging young adult.

Mom Coaching

As you know mothering doesn’t come with a manual. But getting Mom Coaching is the best next thing. If you are stuck in negative interactions with your teen. If drama has taken over your home. If your approach with your teen isn’t working. If you’re not sure about boundaries and guidelines with the phone, car, or curfew. If your teen treats you like their personal assistant and your tired of not being appreciated. If you want to know what was my teen thinking and understand what is really going on in that teenage brain of theirs. If you are worried that your teen is not progressing as they should socially, or academically. If you’re not sure they’re going to turn out okay. Then you can benefit from Mom Coaching.

A typical mistake that moms make is to send their teen to therapy but not get any coaching and support for themselves. It’s great your teen is getting therapy, but how about you get some more tools in your tool belt. I am definitely not saying you are the problem but parenting teens can be difficult. Moms get worn out, stuck in resentment and discouraged. I want you to know you don’t have to do this alone, let me guide you. I have spent over 50,000 hours listening to families. Sometimes you need a new set of eyes and a fresh approach with your teen.

Remember mom the most important way you help your teen or young adult is to be the model that you want them to become. It’s time to invest in yourself.

Psychotherapy/Coaching

For those in the Houston area I work with a limited number of clients in my private practice. I was trained in marriage and family therapy and I am a licensed professional counselor, and life coach. I work with teens, young adults, women in transition, moms and daughters, couples, and families. I integrate family system theory, solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, and interpersonal neuroscience. In other words, I integrate a lot of therapy styles including a coaching model to help you heal your relationships, uncover your true purpose in life, create more happiness, and move to a place of inner peace.

After twenty-seven plus years of helping clients transform their lives here’s what I know . . .

You can change your life. It’s not too late! You don’t need to suffer any longer. Your past does not need to dictate your future. Now is the best time to discover the awesome possibilities for your life. If you feel stuck and nothing seems to work, then you can really benefit from my services now.

You can change how you think. Did you know that scientists have found that a majority of our thoughts are negative and automatic? Often times we are not aware of how these negative thoughts drive our life and create our reality. The problem is that these unhelpful thoughts take us to unwanted destinations. To develop new mindsets, it’s advantageous to have a mentor who can help you identify these automatic and obsessive thoughts in order to develop fresh new ways to think about your life. It’s time to move past shame, disappointment, heartache, past trauma and open a space for new healing experiences and a whole new outlook.

You can change your relationships. Relationships are the greatest gifts in our life, and can be the source of our deepest pain. Lots of people get caught in damaging and reactive patterns of communication. Others grow cold and distant. You don’t need to settle. I can help you get the clarity needed to set appropriate boundaries and establish healthy, loving interactions with your friends, family, spouses, and children.

My private practice is located at 4010 Blue Bonnet, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77025. You can contact me at colleen@dialdownthedrama.com, or call me at 713-408-6112.