FAMILY COACHING
When something happens to one of you, it happens to all of you.
Family coaching is focused, practical support for the whole family — built around the specific challenge you're facing together.
Eastbourne & Online
MBACP Registered
Self & professional referral
Some of the hardest things a family faces don't belong to just one person. A bereavement. A diagnosis. A family reconfiguring after separation. These are whole-family experiences — and they deserve whole-family support.
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Family coaching brings everyone together — with a clinican who understands child and family development — to create a space where every member of the family can say how they're really feeling, be heard without judgement, and work together on what comes next.
What Family Coaching Actually Looks Like
We begin with a 90-minute collaborative assessment and family agreement session. This is where we create a forum for everyone to share how they're experiencing the situation — children included. Not a managed conversation where adults speak for children, but a genuinely held space where every voice carries weight. Together we identify what each family member needs, agree how we'll work, and set goals that belong to the whole family.
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This is followed by up to three 60-minute sessions, shaped by what emerged in the assessment. We might focus on how the family communicates with one another, how everyone is navigating a bereavement differently, or how to build approaches that work for your particular family's rhythms and relationships.
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Alongside the sessions I bring psychoeducation — helping each family member understand what's happening psychologically, in language that fits their age and stage. Because when everyone understands what's going on beneath the surface, it changes how they respond to each other.
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What you leave with is something tangible: a family wellbeing toolkit — shared language, agreed approaches, and strategies that belong to your family long after our sessions end. The goal is never dependency on the process. It's a family that feels more equipped, more connected, and better able to navigate whatever comes next.
What You Will Build Together
A forum where everyone feels heard — children included
Shared understanding of what's happening for each family member
Agreed approaches developed collaboratively
Psychoeducation tailored to each person's age and stage
A family wellbeing toolkit you keep long after sessions end
Shared language for navigating difficult moments together
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Sessions 50 minutes, weekly or fortnightly
Fee £365
Where In person (Eastbourne) and online
In person Eastbourne · limited availability
Contract No minimum sessions · no contract
Coaching Not Therapy
Family coaching is distinct from family therapy. It's goal and problem specific, time-limited, and forward-looking. It's the right fit when the whole family is affected and working together is the most useful place to start. If it becomes clear during our work that individual therapeutic support is needed for one or more family members, I will always say so clearly and help you find the right path.
Who Family Coaching is For
Family coaching works well for families navigating a specific challenge together. Some examples of when it's a good fit:
When a parent has died. Every family member is grieving differently — and often in silence, trying to protect each other. Coaching creates a space where everyone's grief gets to exist at the same time, and the family finds ways to hold it together rather than alone.
When there's conflict between parents and teenagers.
Communication has broken down. Everyone feels unheard. Coaching rebuilds the channels — helping parents and young people understand each other's experience and agree new ways of relating.
When a diagnosis changes everything. A new diagnosis reshapes roles, expectations, and relationships across the whole family. Coaching helps everyone — the child, their siblings, their parents — find a shared language for what's changed and what stays the same.
When families are blending or separating. Step-families finding their shape, co-parents navigating separation, children moving between two homes — coaching supports families to put children's needs at the centre, even when that's complicated for the adults.