Welcome to Mindful Parenting & Learning
We are a behavior specialist and educational consulting team who provide parent coaching and support services to families, schools, and early childhood programs.
At Mindful Parenting & Learning, our mission is to shift the educational and behavioral consulting paradigm from crisis management to proactive prevention through holistic educational interventions and trainings that provide: (1) tangible social emotional learning and self-regulation tools for students, teachers, and families, and provide (2) executive function support for children at home and at school.
Navigate the challenges of parenting through customized support.
Welcome!
We both started our careers in education as teachers and specialists in early childhood. Andrea Benson is a Behavior Analyst and behavior consultant for families with young children. Christina has a Master of Arts in Teaching and taught in early elementary and preschool classrooms. We are both passionate about early childhood education and building a strong foundation for young children. As new moms, we realized the importance of this starting in the home through supporting families and children. This led us to starting Mindful Parenting! We create customized plans to support all types of needs and challenges a family may face. We’re in this with you.
Using our professional training and educational backgrounds, we provide parenting support that is:
Research-based
Practical for daily use
Specific and based on your family’s personal values and priorities
Always collaborative and flexible
We look forward to getting to know you and your family.
Areas We Support
Meltdowns
Screen Time
Schedules
Boundaries
Building Independence
Bedtime
Transitions
Potty Training
Executive Functioning Skills
Sibling Dynamic
Independent Play
Routines
What We Offer
Free Resource Library
Printable resources with instructions to help you navigate daily routines and skill building.
Parent Coaching Packages
We meet with parents to develop customized goals and ongoing support with weekly meetings, e-mail, and text communication.
Potty Training
Potty training is one of the first big milestones for children and it can be helpful to get the extra support. We help create training plans tailored to your families needs that relieve stress and get results.
FAQs
What service does Mindful Parenting provide?
Mindful Parenting offers caregiver support through parent coaching and customized plans. We meet with parents (in person or in a virtual meeting) to listen, create goals, and strategize to help create a plan that will fit your family’s needs. After each session, we provide resources and plans that will help your family see positive change in how you view parenting and problem solve with your partner to ease stress in parenting. Every family and child is unique and will need a plan that fits your family best.
What types of family needs does Mindful Parenting support?
We work with families to best understand their child’s behavior while providing research-based resources and strategies. We support a wide range of family needs including: potty training, tantrums, daily routines, collaboration with school and home.
What age group do we support?
We specialize in ages 1-6
What type of results can you expect?
Although we cannot guarantee results, we do guarantee that we will partner with each family to develop a plan and provide ongoing support. We will help parents gain more knowledge to become more confident and work through challenging behaviors.
Is Mindful Parenting a good fit for your family?
Schedule a free 20-minute consultation to see if Mindful Parenting could be a good fit for your family. We look forward to working with families to ease stress through collaboration with us as behavioral specialists. We look forward to meeting you!
What People Are Saying
“Potty training is SUCH a daunting task for any parent. When we figured it was time to begin the journey, we read the books and tried to follow all of the suggestions (there are so many!). When our attempts failed, we contacted Mindful Parenting—I can honestly say it was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made! Andrea and Christina were incredible.”
— Parent, Seattle, WA
“During our live parenting sessions, my husband and I feel ‘heard’ and listened to, and are provided with tangible, real-life tools and strategies to implement right away that are tailored specifically to the issue we would like to solve. They have also done a phenomenal job in working hand-in-hand with both our son's school and us as parents, creating cohesive resources and support tools that have shown to be immediately effective.”
— Parent, San Diego, CA
“This type of family-specific coaching and support has helped give him and our whole family the right foundation to learn and grow. Both Andrea and Christina have been there with us to hear us out and help us to lay out a plan to provide the specific support our son is needing and our whole family benefits from. ”