Root and Rise
Helping parents root deeply and rise confidently.
Parent coaching is a collaborative, forward-looking process that helps you deepen your connection with your child, feel grounded in your values, and respond to everyday challenges with more clarity and confidence.
Instead of giving one-size-fits-all advice, Laura partners with you to explore what’s already working in your family, what feels hard right now, and what kind of home life you want to build. Together you’ll look at your child’s needs, your parenting instincts, and current research on child development and family well-being to shape an approach that fits your unique family.
Parent coaching is not mental health therapy and is not designed to treat deep emotional wounds. It’s for generally healthy parents who want support navigating behaviors, transitions, and big feelings, or who simply want to be more intentional and aligned in how they show up as parents.
Coaching is a structured, supportive conversation that keeps the focus on your goals as a parent and the daily realities of your family life.
You’ll start with an exploratory session to talk about your family, what feels challenging right now, and what you’re hoping will be different. This is a chance for you to ask questions, get a sense of Laura’s style, and decide together whether coaching is a good fit.
Early sessions focus on clarifying what matters most to you as a parent and what kind of home environment you’d like to cultivate. You’ll identify a few key focus areas—such as morning routines, sibling conflict, screen time, or big emotions—that will guide your work together.
In ongoing sessions, Laura walks alongside you as you experiment with new approaches, reflect on what’s working, and gently adjust what isn’t. She offers questions, frameworks, and strategies drawn from her work as a school counselor and her training in parent coaching, while always honoring your experience and intuition as a parent.
As you see changes in your child and in yourself, sessions help you consolidate what you’ve learned and make it feel sustainable over time. The goal is not perfection, but a sense of being rooted and resourced as your child continues to grow and change.
Curious whether coaching is right for you?
Contact Laura to schedule your exploratory session todayLaura LaFave is a warm, experienced school counselor and parent coach who has spent years walking alongside children and their families in school settings. In her work with preschool and lower school students, she helps children build social and emotional skills: understanding and managing big feelings, practicing friendship and communication, and navigating conflict and change with confidence.
Laura’s path into parent coaching grew out of her background in both education and counseling. She completed her undergraduate studies in education and mathematics at Minnesota State University Moorhead, began her career teaching middle school math at The Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio, and went on to earn her master’s degree in school counseling from the University of Dayton. Since then, she has served as a school counselor in the Wausau School District and now at the University School of Milwaukee, supporting students and families through many different seasons of growth.
Laura has also completed specialized training through The Parent Coaching Institute (PCI), a graduate-level program in parent coaching, and brings that same thoughtful, research-informed approach to her work with parents. She partners with caregivers to make sense of challenging behaviors, strengthen routines at home, and develop simple, sustainable strategies that fit each family’s values. Her goal is to help parents feel deeply rooted in who they are and how they show up for their children—so the whole family can rise together.
Ready to explore parent coaching or have a question about how it works? Reach out to start the conversation.
Email: laura@coachingbylafave.com
Phone: 920-850-3651
These are example testimonials. Replace them with real stories as you collect feedback from families you’ve worked with.
“Laura helped us better understand our child’s big emotions and gave us practical tools we could use right away. Our evenings feel calmer and more connected.”
— Parent of a preschooler
“Instead of feeling stuck and guilty, I now feel confident setting loving boundaries. Laura’s coaching made such a difference in how we parent together.”
— Parents of two young children
“Laura listened without judgment and helped us create routines that actually work for our family. Our child’s transition to school has been so much smoother.”
— Kindergarten parent