REMOTE AND IN-PERSON IN OJAI, CALIFORNIA
Parent, Youth, and Family Coaching
Work through parenting challenges, family dynamics, communication, transitions, and life stressors. Available to family members of all ages—together or individually.
Expert support for the people and relationships that matter most.
Life with other humans can be complicated, especially when you’re raising them.
You have an idea of how you want your family life to feel, but with so many people, needs, outside opinions, and dynamics in motion, it can be hard to know how to get there. Whether you are preparing for parenthood, finding your way through early childhood, navigating adolescence, or trying to create a family culture that feels good, it can help to have someone alongside you who can listen carefully, offer perspective, and connect you with useful resources.
What this is
You know your child. You don’t have to figure everything out alone.
Parent and family coaching gives you a trusted partner who can get to know your family over time. I provide individualized coaching and consultation for parents, caregivers, youth (of all ages), couples, and families navigating the real and complicated parts of life together. Family coaching packages can include sessions with different family members, allowing me to understand multiple perspectives and help bring the pieces together. Together, we slow down, understand what may be underneath the immediate problem, and develop practical responses suited to the people, relationships, and circumstances involved.
Who coaching can help
Sometimes families come to me with a specific challenge. Other times, parents simply want an ongoing place to think through what is happening as their children grow. They want me in their back pocket to help them thoughtfully build the family culture that they dream of. A culture of listening, love, curiosity, and connection.
Together, we might work through:
Recurring conflict or communication breakdowns
Strong emotions or challenging behavior
Parent-child connection
Boundaries, expectations, and family routines
Different parenting approaches
Adolescence and changing family relationships
School stress, friendships, identity, or belonging
Separation, relocation, loss, or other family transitions
Building a more intentional family culture
Building executive functioning skills
Resilience in the face of disappointment or hard feelings
If you’re not sure if coaching is right for you, your family, or your situation, let’s chat about it!
I’ll never pressure you into one of my services. My goal is simply to help you find the best fit for your individual needs.
How it works
I understand that one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why I have different session offerings so you can choose the coaching option that works best for you.
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What’s included: A one-time focused coaching and consultation session for clients of any age
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Can be done virtually or in-person in Ojai, California
Price: $250
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Recommended for looking at a pattern or issue within an individual, working on building skills towards a concrete goal.
What’s included:
Twelve weekly 60-minute coaching and consultation sessions. Sessions be may used by different members of the same family in any combination.
Access to Ali by text or audio message Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m PST. Ali responds within 24 hours. Clients should identify time-sensitive messages; Ali will make a good-faith effort to respond sooner when available. This access is coaching support, not emergency or crisis response.
Individualized resources designed for you and your family
Location: Virtually or in-person in Ojai, California. Virtual clients must be age 10 or older.
Price: $3000, payment plans available
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Best suited to care for challenges that feel hard to pin down, are ongoing, or involve multiple people within the family.
What’s included:
Twenty-four weekly 60-minute coaching and consultation sessions. Sessions be may used by different members of the same family in any combination.
Access to Ali by text or audio message Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m PST. Ali responds within 24 hours. Clients should identify time-sensitive messages; Ali will make a good-faith effort to respond sooner when available. This access is coaching support, not emergency or crisis response.
Individualized resources designed for you and your family
Location: Virtually or in-person in Ojai, California. Virtual clients must be age 10 or older.
Price: $6000, payment plans available
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What’s included:
A personalized 4-hour focused coaching and consultation session (with breaks) for an urgent need, difficult transition, recurring conflict, or issue that benefits from sustained attention
Pre-intensive questionnaires and preparation
Individual, parent, and family work as appropriate
A written integration plan with recommended next steps
Duration: 4 hours
Location: In-person in Ojai, California
Price: $1250
My approach
Personal. Practical. Relational. Rooted in the whole system.
You can find an extraordinary amount of advice and information online. What’s harder to find is someone who knows how to situate the information within the context. Someone who remembers what happened six months ago. Who understands your child’s temperament, your partner’s perspective, or the history behind the group conflict you are trying to resolve.
Someone who can hold the complexity with you. That’s what I aim to offer.
My background spans mental health, social work, public health, education, organizational development, research, and family systems. This allows me to look at challenges through multiple lenses while keeping our work grounded in the realities of your everyday life.
You won’t need to start from the beginning every time something new happens.
Over time, I come to understand the people and systems that matter to you. That continuity allows us to move beyond one-off advice and toward deeper understanding, more thoughtful decisions, and sustainable change.
Our Process
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Begin with a conversation
Discuss what’s happening, what’s already been tried, and what your family hopes will change.
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Look beneath the immediate problem
Explore relevant relationships, patterns, needs, histories, stressors, and environments.
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Identify practical next steps
Develop realistic ways to communicate, set boundaries, respond to difficult moments, or change family routines and interactions.
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Learn, adjust, and evolve
Notice what is helping, what remains difficult, and what needs to evolve.
“Ali has an innate gift for connecting with her clients whether 3 years old, 16, or those in adulthood. Her understanding of childhood/adolescent development has made it possible for me to reflect on my parenting skills and change what was no longer serving our family. I recommend her to anyone wanting to deepen their relationship with their children and create more balance, mutual trust, and fun in the home.”
— Family Coaching Client
Let's connect
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