ScreamFree Parenting

ScreamFree Parenting is a radically new approach to parenting that encourages and teaches parents to take care of themselves and their marriage while creating loving and understanding relationships with their children. Licensed Professional Counselor turned Certified Professional Coach, Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC incorporated this new coaching method into her practice to improve self-confidence and healthy parent-child relationships.

“I began as a counselor working in many different capacities: equine therapy, case manager, group therapist, school counselor, and individual counselor in private practice,” says Tara. “I attended a seminar about coaching and realized my counseling style was exactly that; coaching and the greater possibilities to reach more people as a coach than a counselor. Thus I began my training as a coach. In coaching I have combined my love for helping others and my passion for yoga to assist people in creating balance for life, which lends itself to also helping them improve their self-confidence. I have always loved working with children and parents so after I discovered ScreamFree Parenting I knew I had to add that tool to my repertoire.”

ScreamFree Parenting is a system developed by Hal Edward Runkel, LCSW that is not all about the children but about the parent. “I came across this book will looking for parenting books for myself and my husband after our daughter was born,” explains Tara. “I was obviously caught up by the title itself. When I began to listen to the book I realized it spoke directly to my motto in my personal life and my professional life: we must take care of ourselves first before we take care of anyone else. If we do not no on else will take care of us and this may possibly lead to us not being able to care for anyone. So when the opportunity arose to study with Hal Runkel himself to become a Certified ScreamFree Parent Leader I jumped at the chance. It was the most wonderful, and grueling training I had ever been too. Hal’s philosophy is that we all need to know what our unresolved issues are and work on them, so it was actually a two day session of group therapy. Personally I have found this parenting theory to be an amazing way to connect to my daughter. I feel so blessed every day that I found ScreamFree early on so that we can start off creating a loving lasting relationship. One of the theories within this process is to create space so that as parents we do not become emotionally reactive. This comes in so handy now that my daughter has begun to creep into the “terrible twos” and is starting to have temper tantrums. If I were to become emotionally reactive to them they would just get worse and last longer. The challenge is the ScreamFree way is hard, there is no easy out button, but isn’t anything hard totally worth the journey?”

In the near future, the ScreamFree system will be expanding to include ScreamFree Living and ScreamFree Marriage. Tara plans to continue to expand and grow her coaching practice and looking to include Certified ScreamFree Marriage Leader to her programs. “Personally I plan to continue to utilize the ScreamFree philosophy as a parent and just enjoy watching my daughter grow and develop.”

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