Parenting from the Inside Out
Connection is at the Heart of Parenting
Children begin to understand themselves through their relationships with us, through the ordinary moments of feeling seen, heard, understood and welcomed.
Parenting is not about getting everything right. What matters is that our children feel safe with us, understood by us and able to turn to us, with whatever they are feeling.
Looking Beyond the Behaviour
Children do not always have the words to explain what they are feeling or needing. Sometimes they communicate it through anger, withdrawal, anxiety, defiance or behaviour that can be difficult to understand.
This programme helps parents look beyond how to stop the behaviour and become curious about what may be happening for the child.
We also pay attention to what parenting stirs within us. When we understand our own triggers and reactions, we are more able to pause, respond with care and remain connected through difficult moments.
What We Explore:
What behaviour may be communicating
Children’s emotional and developmental needs
Attachment, connection and a sense of safety
Understanding your own parenting triggers
Co-regulation and helping children manage strong emotions
Boundaries that protect both the child and the relationship
Repairing connection when things go wrong
Responding to children’s changing needs as they grow
Two Ways to Take Part
Six-Week Course
Six weekly one-hour sessions offering time to explore the ideas in greater depth, reflect on your own parenting and apply what you are learning to everyday family life.
Two-Hour Introductory Workshop
A shorter introduction to the central themes of connection, behaviour, emotional regulation, boundaries and repair.
The workshop offers an accessible starting point. It is not intended to provide the same depth as the full six-week course.
What Informs My Parenting Work
I hold Level 8 and Level 9 qualifications from University College Cork (UCC) and TUS, which qualify me to facilitate parenting and relationship programmes. This work is grounded in the understanding that effective parenting begins with ourselves.
I have continued to build on this relational foundation through ongoing study and professional development in attachment, child development, developmental trauma, emotional regulation and body-based approaches to wellbeing.
My work is informed by leading thinkers and clinicians including Dr Gabor Maté, Dr Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher and Dr Allan Schore, whose work in developmental neuroscience has helped deepen our understanding of attachment. We now understand attachment not simply as the bond between a parent and child, but as one of the earliest ways children learn to manage emotion, stress and overwhelm — through being regulated in relationship with another person.
This has important implications for parenting.
Before children can consistently regulate themselves, they need repeated experiences of being helped to regulate.
It is one of the reasons I place such importance on connection, co-regulation and understanding what may be happening beneath a child’s behaviour.
Pricing: Available on application.