Rise & Thrive Parent Coaching and Neurofeedback

Rise and Thrive Parent Coaching was founded by and is run by Laurel, certified holistic coach and wellness pracitioner who utilizes her past experiences, expertise and passions to help families thrive.
Laurel has had her time in the realm of therapy and behavioral modification and has come to love and fully believe we must look at the whole person in order to make true and lasting changes.  It applies to any age, but when we're talking of children, we must look at their emotional-social development stage, what their nervous system is doing, what their behavior is telling us of their needs, how the relationships are in the family and how the child interprets that relationship, gut issues and health issues that may impact them as well.  Helping parents understand their child and their behaviors can help a family move from frustration to understanding and functioning more smoothly as a family. Helping parents add tools to their tool belt, aide in understanding how to help themselves and their children and helping parents thrive is Laurel's passion.   As the parent, you are your child's first and foremost most influencial teacher and leader.  

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Laurel started her work with families and kids in 2005 as a Parents As Teachers Educator, then moved to a Family Crisis worker.  She then spent some time studying and becoming certified as an Equine-Assisted Psychotherapist, which was her first experience of thinking outside of the box in helping people thrive and she fell in love.  She then worked 5 years as a Behavioral Specialist and Family therapist.  As her first kiddo reached the age of 3, she struggled to love being a mom.  There were behaviors that were not changing with the traditional modification techniques that she had spent so many years teaching to other families.  Her family went into surviving mode instead of thriving.  Constantly putting out fires and wanting their happy and obedient baby back.  It wouldn't be until her daughter reached 5 that information about leaky gut came to her attention and the family went on a mission to heal their daughter's gut.  It was tedious and hard, but the small improvements they saw each month in their daughter breathed hope into them.  After the initial intensive gut healing (a year or two) they were then able to relax a bit and their daughter had the ability to function at a happier and more obedient level.  5 years later, her husband had a stress break called chronic adrenal fatigue.  Again with gut work, healing started to take place when no doctor could give answers or relief.  In her own life, she struggled through motherhood with the "normal" tiredness, brain fog, lack of motivation, feeling overwhelmed, hormone imbalances, etc peeked by a season of depression and intense anxiety. With a new company that focuses on gut health, she tried Amare supplements and was able to quickly get out of the mucky waters.  Now, Laurel combines all that she has learned in the previous 19 years to help families move from surviving to thriving and loving their family culture again.