“Before working with Karen, I was facing several issues with my daughter. Her hypersensitivity, sassiness and strong-willed personality were making it difficult for me to enjoy being a mom. I felt like we were in constant power struggles all day long, which left me drained and tired. I wasn’t enjoying being a mom and hated that feeling. After working with Karen, I now feel so much more competent in dealing with my daughter because we got so specific in how to deal with her power struggles. I feel like I had read so many books and tried many different things but didn’t feel like they were working so well. Coaching helped me to vent my feelings and get specific with how to deal with my daughter’s issues. It also helped me stay consistent. I can’t even begin to explain how different I feel now versus when we started working together. I now feel refreshed and completely confident in my parenting skills because I have so many useful tools that I know work! I don’t know how I would have learned these tools any other way! I loved everything about working with Karen; there was a perfect balance between her professionalism and her ability to put me at ease and make it easy to talk to her. I highly recommend Karen’s coaching services to anyone!”
Kacey Perry, Utah

“What I most appreciated about working with Karen was the help I received in dealing with my spirited child. Before working with her, I wasn’t sure I was doing the right thing with my child. I would get angry when he would say and do things and get caught off-guard. Now I know that I am doing the right thing with my spirited child because I am prepared. I know what I will say and do ahead of time. I especially loved the summary of the call that is sent after each session. I truly enjoyed my coaching experience and only wish we lived closer so that we could go have lunch sometime. I look forward to contacting Karen again!”
Kristi Sosa, Texas

“Coaching with Karen made me clear on how to work with my child’s temperament. I appreciated her encouraging words and demeanor and how she always focused on all the good things I was already doing with my child. I also appreciated learning to look at things from different angles (like my parenting style and my child’s temperament). Karen really went above and beyond with me to make our coaching sessions together valuable. Her style is very supportive and comforting and I always looked forward to our calls. I am thankful for the help!”
Amanda Tolman, Chicago, Illinois
“Before coaching, I felt that I had to be a different kind of parent than I am to be effective. I now have more patience with myself and recognize the things I do well. I realize that I have a parenting style that works for me! The genuine support and caring Karen gave me no what issues we were dealing with gave me the courage to trust my intuition as a parent. Everyone needs someone to support them the way she does. I really felt like she took a lot of time to get to know me and helped me to feel better about the mother I am being. Karen is very talented and has a gift.”


Cassie Willis. Tumwater WA

“We looked for a parenting coach when our first child was still getting up at night when he was a toddler. He was also throwing toys incessantly. We realized that, despite having read lots of parenting books, we needed some more individualized help. Karen supported us through those issues with loving and professional guidance and support. We worked with her to develop our parenting philosophy as well as to help us transition to a larger family when our second child was born. She has helped us to work together as a couple and as parents, and this has benefited our family tremendously. She shares great resources and ideas and is skilled at helping us deal with a variety of challenging situations. What we most appreciate about Karen is her professionalism, compassion, empathy and clear communication. We can highly recommend the services that Karen offers.”
Mike and Sandi Kaplan, Seattle WA

“I’ve known Karen for five years, as both a student and a coach trainer, and I can highly recommend her as a professional parent coach. When she entered the Parent Coach Certification program, Karen enthusiastically volunteered to attend a PCI Leadership Retreat before she even cracked open her first training notebook. Her fully-engaged participation spurred the rest of the group in many ways key to our institute’s growth.
From the very beginning, she was 100% committed to this work. Over the year-long program Karen dedicated herself to absorbing the training, the principles, and the PCI model. They dove-tailed so well with her past work and with her own personal values that Karen, a woman of the highest integrity, has now become an instructor for the PCI—a popular teacher that our parent coaches in training adore.
With her background in education, Karen brings a wealth of information to coaching. She has been a reading consultant for a national company and gave highly-acclaimed presentations on best-practices in literacy training. She is a recognized expert on the reading/language arts process. She also understands and can work with all aspects of child and teen development.
Karen also knows firsthand what helps busy moms clear their heads and align their mothering with their values, since she does that each and every day with her own daughters. You are in exquisite hands, indeed, with Karen’s professional background, life experiences, combined with her authenticity, passion, dedication, commitment, leadership, enthusiasm, wealth of information, and superb coaching skills. Lucky you.”
Gloria DeGaetano, CEO of the Parent Coaching Institute
Bellevue, Washington

“Parent coaching with Karen was a wonderful experience that impacted our whole family. I chose her because of her professional background and coaching expertise. When I first started working with Karen I was transitioning from full- time to part-time work. This was a big adjustment for everyone, especially me. Parent coaching helped me establish new patterns of relating to my kids; it also helped me to find and recognize my strengths as a mom. I learned new strategies to use with my children that allowed me to be a more effective parent and still communicate love and respect. My husband and children are thrilled (and so am I!) and there is less yelling in our house, and more cooperation. Karen’s genuine concern, compassion, and support—combined with her professional expertise, is a big win for parents struggling with behavior and parenting issues. Her expert support, problem-solving, and strategic thinking, helped me to really make a difference in the way I relate to my kids.”
Beth Shepard, Kent WA

“I felt as if I had been liberated! Karen catered each of our sessions to my unique personality and parenting style. I am impressed with the resources, professionalism, and passion my coach brought to every session. She became a mentor, a teacher, a resource, a catalyst, a comrade, and a friend! Each week I looked forward to sharing my thoughts, feelings and concerns and receiving feedback that was relevant to my needs and parenting style. She helped me define my values and then prioritize and organize my life to be in harmony with those values. This helped bring the peace that I was seeking for in my home. Because I have parent coaching in my life, I am now developing into the parent that I always wanted to be.”
Shae Tayior, Phoenix AZ
“Karen was there for me as I dealt with both the challenge of the “empty nest” and supporting my two daughters in their efforts to become fully independent, productive adults. With Karen’s coaching, I was able to gain new insights as a parent (even with a 23-year-old!), appreciate the strengths and unique qualities of my children as well as of myself, and focus my efforts on making my dreams as an individual as well as my dreams for my children come true. Karen has great wisdom, intelligence, energy, intuition, and love to share with any parent lucky enough to have her as their coach!”
Lea Stublarec, Palo Alto CA