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With interconnectedness of heart, Jody supports the ever evolving relational dynamics of parents, children, families and schools. Naturally led, she fosters empathetic expansion, redevelopment and refinement of human connection, to oneself, others and our Earth. Knowing in her early years that her work was to be in the field of care, Jody gravitated to a lense of education. With focus on something other than the traditional, she explored alternatives. In 2000 she dove into Montessori pedagogy, graduating from Toronto Montessori Institute in 2001. Through the continued alchemizing of her own life experiences, as well holding the vision of the school community being one based in love and connection, alignment with Jennifer’s Connected Parenting approach was inevitable. She presently holds an active role in the CP community, offering weekly mentoring to graduates of the program in The Mirroring Clinic as well as one on one and family support.
I have provided clinical care to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families for the past 20 years within research-based university and hospital settings. I have a private practice in which I work with children and their families to individualize a collaborative approach which ranges from early intervention parent coaching sessions using a naturalistic, developmental, behavioral-based model, to individual school-aged therapy and parent consulting and coaching. I am thrilled to embed the Connected Parenting Model within my practice both as a professional and parent. I am also a Clinical Adjunct Professor and Advanced Consultant within the Department of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill at the TEACCH Autism Program. My intervention philosophy emphasizes family collaboration, a whole person view, understanding one’s learning styles and differences, as well as utilizing evidence-based strategies.
I’m Andrea Goldfarb, an educator, certified teacher, and school principal with over 23 years of experience. Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a diverse range of children and families, each with their unique strengths, challenges, and aspirations. Goldfarb Group Consulting was born out of my passion for helping parents and educators move from feeling overwhelmed and uncertain, to feeling empowered, connected and confident. As a committed advocate for children’s well-being and family empowerment, I’ve dedicated myself to supporting parents, schools, and summer camps in creating nurturing and enriching environments where every child can thrive. With a background in education and extensive training as a Connected Parenting Coach, I bring a unique blend of expertise, empathy, and practical strategies to my work.
My passion and purpose is to support and guide parents to be confident in their parenting and stay connected to their children. I believe families that learn to communicate, model and teach what healthy conflict looks like are building the best defense against anything that comes their way. I am a mom of two brilliant teenage girls with very different personalities. One has ADHD and one has an exquisitely sensitive/gladiator personality. They have inspired and prepared me for this work in so many ways. Prior to moving to beautiful Sarasota Florida I was honored to work alongside vulnerable families and their children for the last 7 years with ArtHouse for children and youth. Using the connected model and calm techniques so much trust and growth was seen in the children I worked with.
Maggie Meyer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Registered Play Therapist. She earned a B.S. in Dietetics from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Before pursuing her passion for helping others, Maggie spent 10 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency. Maggie leverages her extensive background as a Dietitian and Personal Trainer to offer her clients a holistic approach to mental wellness. She has extensive experience supporting children and parents facing various life stressors, including strained relationships, grief, divorce, social pressures, anxiety, illness, low self-esteem, anger, and trauma. She is particularly passionate about working with parents who often feel overwhelmed, alone, and disconnected from their partners, children and themselves.
I’m Laura Moretti, a Certified Connected Parenting™ Coach, dedicated to guiding parents through their most challenging moments and towards the joyful family life they envision. Parenting can be the most rewarding role we fill. It can also be one of the toughest. I understand the frustration, confusion and at times despair, that can come with parenting. I have witnessed the tremendous positive changes in family dynamics and ongoing relationship-building that come when we approach our kids with both empathy and boundaries, including in my own family. Our experience was so profound that I was inspired to train with Jennifer Kolari and immerse myself in the Connected Parenting approach so that I could help even more families benefit. I am deeply passionate about helping parents reclaim their confidence.
Lauran Rankin
Chicago, IL
Educator, Learning Behavior Specialist (LBS1), Parenting Coach
Lauran holds a Master’s degree in Special Education and LBS1 certification. She has worked with children ages 3–10, supporting diverse learning needs and social-emotional development. As an adjunct professor, she teaches special education courses to future educators. She’s a mother of two and certified Connected Parenting Coach. Her greatest strengths involve empowering caregivers and mentoring educators, guiding them toward confidence, connection, and compassion. She supports families and teachers by emphasizing that connection and empathy are the foundation of strong, nurturing relationships. Leveraging her education background and Connected Parenting training, she offers expertise in navigating behavioral challenges with positive, compassionate relationships and personalized support tailored to each client.
As a Certified Connected Parenting Practitioner, licensed special education teacher, parenting and cognitive coach — and mother of five adult children — Lynette brings professional expertise and heart to family work. For over eleven years, she worked hands-on with neurodiverse children, guiding students through emotional outbursts, learning challenges, and complex behavior patterns. She discovered Jennifer Kolari’s Connected Parenting and the CALM Technique changed everything, providing tools that built connection rather than merely managing behavior. Her approach is warm, non-judgmental, and grounded in compassion. She specializes in supporting parents of strong-willed, highly sensitive, or neurodiverse children — children who may be struggling on the outside, but who are deeply feeling, capable, and craving connection underneath it all.
Danielle is Founder of Confident Connections – Real World Parenting Solutions. For over two decades, she has helped parents navigate raising children, aiming to empower families to create meaningful connections, support their children’s growth, and build resilience. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University and extensive experience leading child development organizations. As SEA’s only Certified Connected Parenting™ Practitioner, she blends real-world solutions with the latest child development research. Since 2012, she has lived in Singapore, working with diverse families globally. She also serves as Curriculum and Content Advisor and Behavior Specialist for schools and companies. As a mother of two, she understands firsthand the joys and challenges of parenting.
Alex Hammond
London, ON
MSW, RSW, BScN, RN
Alex is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Nurse with over 13 years of experience, primarily in Pediatrics. Her approach is collaborative, relational, and grounded in compassion and curiosity. She became a mother as a teenager, raising three children — an experience that shaped her before entering the profession. She was introduced to Jennifer Kolari’s Connected Parenting model through her own therapist during difficult times rebuilding connection with her children. That experience informs how she shows up — not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone who understands how difficult, and how hopeful, this process can be. She supports parents connecting with children and teens dealing with big emotions, behavioral challenges, anxiety, and disconnection.
Brock Hudson
As a parent and someone with over 20 years working with youth and families, Brock understands how challenging and rewarding this journey can be. He recognizes that no two families are the same, and each parenting journey is deeply personal. Through mentoring, coaching, and youth development leadership, he has supported families in building stronger connections, navigating transitions, and creating environments where children can thrive. His coaching approach is grounded in empathy, understanding, and a deep commitment to helping parents feel confident in their choices. He specializes in attachment-based parenting strategies, guiding parents through challenges emphasizing emotional connection, communication, and long-term relationship-building. Through personal and professional experiences, he walks alongside parents navigating parenthood’s ups and downs, believing that when parents grow, families thrive.
Lara is a Registered Social Worker and experienced Child and Family Psychotherapist with nearly 20 years supporting children, teens, and families across diverse identities, backgrounds, and abilities. She began as a Child and Youth Care Practitioner in youth shelters, group homes, and hospital units. After completing her MSW, she honed psychotherapy skills through community-based Children’s Mental Health agencies before launching her private practice. Today she specializes in parent coaching and early childhood mental health, guiding caregivers through raising young children and adolescents with warmth, clarity, and developmental insight. She offers individual therapy, family therapy, and parenting support, blending clinical expertise with lived experience as a parent. She also serves as School Social Worker, supporting students, parents, and educators in building emotionally safe and inclusive school environments.
Jennifer Fader
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Expressive Arts Therapist
Jennifer is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Expressive Arts Therapist based in Toronto, Ontario. She works with individuals, parents, and children, especially those who are neurodivergent or communicate through art, play, or nonverbal expression. As a parent herself, she offers real-time empathy rooted in science, creative tools that go beyond talk, and a deep respect for the messy, human process of raising emotionally complex kids. With backgrounds as actor, personal trainer, recreation therapist, and mixed media artist, she also supports adults navigating creative blocks, identity shifts, or existential questions around meaning, purpose, and self-expression. Her sessions integrate brain-based tools with creativity, somatic awareness, and relational attunement, helping families move from reactivity to regulation and disconnection to trust.
Vanessa is a certified parent coach and educator on Boston’s South Shore. She helps parents build deeper connection with kids and navigate challenges with more confidence, calm, and compassion. Through one-on-one coaching and workshops, she supports parents addressing difficult behaviors, understanding big emotions, and strengthening family relationships — especially with kids who are sensitive, strong-willed, anxious, or neurodiverse. Trained in the Connected Parenting™ framework — a powerful, science-backed approach that blends empathy and emotional regulation with clear, compassionate discipline — she helps parents move beyond parenting extremes, balancing love and limits, connection and boundaries. As a mother of two and former organizational executive, she brings both lived experience and professional insight.
Christine Boake
Christine is a certified parent coach and mother of two big-feeling kids. Her journey into coaching began with her neurodivergent son, who has been her greatest teacher. He demonstrated that real change comes not from rules or rewards, but from building connection first. Discovering Connected Parenting™ was a turning point for her family. She learned that children are hardwired for love and connection, bringing balance back into the home and providing tools that actually worked, demonstrating the power of empathy in action. She now helps parents who feel overwhelmed or stuck find calm, confidence, and joy in their parenting journey. Her goal is simple: meeting parents where they are, sharing strategies that made a difference in her own family, and helping them discover a more connected way forward.
Tae Webster
Tae is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Connected Parenting™ Coach who helps parents navigate challenging child behaviour and break free from cycles of frustration and exhaustion. She is known for creating a feeling of calm and for helping parents see that when they shift how they show up, their children will respond differently. As a Certified Connected Parenting™ Coach, Tae uses the CALM Technique to equip parents with practical, relationship-based tools that help resolve conflict, build trust, and strengthen connection with their children. Her work also integrates brain science and subconscious rewiring to help parents recognise and regulate their own triggers. Through her ZenVolution Balanced Parenting Framework™ — ZEN → EMPATHY → BALANCE — Tae guides parents to calm their nervous system, understand the deeper drivers behind behaviour, and apply practical tools that create lasting change at home. She is also a mother of three, and her personal parenting experience continues to inform and deepen her work with families.
Amy Douglas
We all need to be heard, seen, and understood — at any age. Amy Douglas helps people master the science of connection — practically applied — to build hardy, harmonious relationships at work, at school, and at home. A Certified Connected Parenting Practitioner™, Certified Co-Active Coach®, and Certified Conversational Intelligence Coach®, Amy brings warmth, humour, and deep care to every conversation. Her work integrates neuroscience, psychology, and communication — helping individuals, families, and teams understand how trust forms in the brain and in the room. This creates the conditions for ease, collaboration, and genuine connection in all aspects of life. Amy holds an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (major in Psychology). With a background in corporate communications and leadership development, Amy partners with organizations and families alike to strengthen the connective tissue of human relationships — where empathy meets results, and science meets heart. She thrives at the edges of transformation: cross-functional teams, “gladiator” kids, single parent households, large change projects, and the brave personal work that unites them all. Based in Toronto; available internationally via Zoom.
Jill Donald
Jill has spent more than twenty years working with children and families from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of needs — as an educator, mentor, parent, and parenting coach. Over that time, she has seen how often parenting struggles lead to shame, guilt, and negative cycles. As a Connected Parenting™ Accredited Coach and an elementary teacher for over two decades, Jill brings a unique blend of professional expertise, empathy, and practical strategies to her work. Her coaching is grounded in her rich experience and extensive training, and is helpful for parents of children of any age. Jill helps parents make sense of their child’s behaviour, understand their own emotional reactions, and develop thoughtful responses that reduce conflict rather than escalate it. Her approach is practical, compassionate, and focused on strengthening connection within families. With support, parents often feel steadier, clearer, and more confident in how they respond to their children. Jill’s goal is to help families move out of patterns of struggle and back toward understanding, trust, and closeness.