Parent coaching testimonials
Our experience with Leda at Bloom Parent, LLC, was nothing short of transformative. Leda’s gentle guidance and deep understanding of parenting challenges helped us navigate difficult moments with our children without feeling judged. She taught us to approach each situation with calmness and clarity, empowering us to create a more harmonious household. Her support has been invaluable, offering not just temporary fixes but lasting strategies for positive parenting. We are deeply grateful for her impact on our family and look forward to continuing our journey with her guidance. Highly recommend to any parent seeking to enhance family dynamics."
- April & Jason Corrao, Dane WI
We contacted Leda for a consultation and quickly knew that her guidance would lead us to a better family environment for our kids, and our own relationship. After only a few sessions, we've had significant breakthroughs in bedtime routines and overall responses to our children's behavior. Amazing for our family. A+”
- Doug Kampert, Waunakee, WI
Leda!
You have offered me the gift of slowing down. Your model of presence, calm, and openness has allowed me to look inward and tease apart my knee jerk reactions (read:anxiety). You have helped me see my anxiety differently. My whole life I’ve been pushing (which we know never works) or breathing it away and now I understand that I can make space for it. It’s not something to get rid of but something to move with. I am so grateful for your guidance. "
-Andrea R., NYC
Leda's unique ability to quiet all of the noise and hold true space for me has been transformational.
Leda helped me find clarity and reconnect with my truth and values. I have gone into many sessions with her feeling lost and upset and by the end of our time together I am able to think clearly again and find my way home to myself.
If you are looking for a coach who will truly listen, inspire, and transform your life, I highly recommend working with Leda. She has been a blessing in my life, and I am confident she will be in yours too.”
-Dana Brown, Marshall NC
Leda helped to give me a supportive space where I felt comfortable to open up easily about the challenges I have been having parenting my 6 year old son. It isn’t easy to be so vulnerable when it comes to moments where I ‘loose it’ with my beautiful yet strong willed little boy. Leda has helped to give me tools for which to go to when I’m dysregulated myself, bringing me back to my centre & to be able to access compassion more easily during hard times. I’d honestly recommend parent coaching to everyone and Leda is such a wonderful coach. She is empathetic, warm and friendly and I really, really appreciate all the awareness she helped me gain. Sometimes just having a place to go for support and to empty my head & heart knowing I’m not getting judged or unsolicited advice is all I’ve needed, with Leda asking the questions that got me to a place where I could figure it out myself rather than getting more and more jumbled & upset!"
-Penny, U.K.
Leda’s parent coaching has been a game-changer for our family. Our kids struggled with big emotional breakdowns on a daily basis. Thanks to all the tools and strategies Leda taught us, upsets rarely escalate to the point of no return, and we feel a much stronger connection with our children. After only 2 months, parent coaching has changed the dynamic of our home. Our family environment is happier, calmer, and more connected. We feel more confident in our parenting choices, and our kids have gotten much better at managing those big feelings before they start to feel out of control."
- Jeremy, Middleton WI
Book Study testimonials
As therapist and parent, I couldn’t encourage this learning experience more. Conscious Discipline takes a thorough and educated look at the ways we interact with our children as parents. It challenges many of our preconceived assumptions about parenting, and it gives much greater insight into the helpful ways we respond to our kids and why these work. It is backed by a tremendous amount of research on behavior and the brain, and it is explained in concrete, easy to digest ways. I find that I am more often giving careful consideration to how I parent, rather than reacting on instinct. I am also more focused on solutions than just the present problem. Leda is genuine, warm and effective as a teacher and guide. She is knowledgeable about concepts of child development and Conscious Discipline, but coaches from a place of non-judgement. It has been easy to build rapport with her and I feel her support has allowed me to grow my skills and awareness in order to parent with more acceptance and love." Leda has brought a new, fresh approach to parenting for my personal life and as a therapist working with families as a licensed outpatient psychotherapist. Through assignments and readings, I learned a lot however it was the invaluable Zoom meetings that I really was able to explore and deepen my understanding of conscious parenting. Our Conscious Discipline class had seven participants and we really grew together and helped each other along the way. Through Leda’s class, I was always learning and felt challenged. Leda is patient, kind and non judgmental in her approach to leading the Conscious Discipline class. I would highly recommend taking Leda’s Conscious Discipline class as both a mom and therapist." |
The support I’ve received from this class has been incredibly valuable in helping me learn and implement the Conscious Discipline model in my life and role as a parent. It was thoughtfully planned out and never felt rushed so that questions couldn’t be asked and answered. Being able to read the book or watch the videos outside of class and then come in to “dig deeper” into the material with others helped me to more thoroughly understand the content and incorporate it into my life with more confidence than I might have had otherwise. Through Conscious Discipline, I have learned to have grace with myself and recognize how my state dictates the state of others around me. I have learned to think about discipline as a way to teach, rather than punish, and view children as people who deserve respect and guidance instead of doing as they are told. Leda’s warm and inviting presence helped me feel at ease with asking questions, and she was humble about her own experience with conscious discipline and provided relevant examples from her life and parenting journey, which made sharing my personal experiences feel less intimidating to the group. I would definitely recommend this class to parents, educators, daycare providers or anyone who works closely with children!” This class has improved my life experiences in a multitude of ways. Mainly, as I continue to grow in my work with kids- this class has offered me a greater perspective on their needs, development, and overall growth. This class has fostered awareness of my words, actions, and thoughts around children. It has pushed me to really get in toon with myself and my emotions so I can help children do the same. |
I feel so grateful to have had Leda’s support with parent coaching through the Conscious Discipline framework. Leda was able to provide me with numerous suggestions for how I might handle certain situations with my children, and did so in a way that felt encouraging and non-judgmental. I always left my individual sessions feeling at ease and empowered with how I was going to handle various situations in the future, and accepted that even if I made some mistakes, I could see those as opportunities for growth and not as an indication of failure in my parenting. As a mother herself, Leda understands the stress that parenting can create, and I felt a sense of camaraderie when discussing the issues I was facing. It was helpful to be able to talk about anything I felt was relevant to me at that given moment, and not have any specific agenda for our sessions. One of the most helpful concepts I have learned in working with Leda is to view upset as an opportunity to teach skills, and that the goal should not be to eliminate anger or emotional outbursts, but to work through them in a healthy way. I would highly recommend Leda as a parent coach!” "I've been learning Conscious Discipline with Leda for a few months along with some of my peers in psychotherapy. At first, I felt overwhelmed to take on navigating a new approach in guiding the parents with whom I was working. Leda's style of facilitation and instruction changed my outlook, improved self-regulation, and helped me build confidence in being able to share what I've been learning in a palatable way to clients with a variety of worldviews. She challenges us to incorporate many of the CD concepts in our personal lives and this has enhanced my understanding of the approach. To boot, even in my rudimentary knowledge of CD, I received some positive feedback from parents about the value they began to see in the connection strategies CD offers; they noticed some improved emotion regulation in their children. I look forward to learning more!" |