The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.
– J. Krishnamurti
When we see our child struggling, it can feel scary and confusing—and sometimes, we feel just as lost.
Parenting consulting can help you uncover what’s really going on behind the challenging behaviours you see, give you tools to respond with confidence while also providing strategies to strengthen the child-parent relationship. It’s never too late to rebuild trust, repair connections, and create new patterns of support.
Our parent consulting services are designed to help adults understand and respond effectively to the needs of children and adolescents. In addition, we offer specialized support for teens and young adults navigating the transition toward independence.
These services are open to anyone caring for kids—parents, stepparents, foster parents, grandparents, extended family, educators, and helping professionals. Every family looks different, and we celebrate the unique strengths and diversity each one brings.
Our work starts with you—
the adults who love and care for children.
If we see that your child or teen could benefit from extra support, we’ll share ideas, resources, and, when needed, referrals to other trusted professionals.
Whenever we work directly with a teen in counseling, we also ask that their caregivers participate in a separate session. This way, both the teen and the adults who love them receive the guidance and support they need.
All counselling and coaching sessions take place in a virtual environment.
Parent Consultants/Counsellors
Tamara and Adrian do not work for me. Each of us work independently with our own private businesses and practices. As we all work within the same relational developmental paradigm, we list ourselves together so that more families can find the unique supports they need.
Adrian Juric
Adrian Juric is a counsellor in private practice, a parent consultant, and a school counsellor. With a graduate degree in school counselling and over 33 years of experience as a classroom teacher and a counsellor in Canada and overseas, Adrian has developed a deep understanding of child development and the unique challenges parents face. Adrian’s approach is deeply grounded in the attachment model developed by Dr. Gordon Neufeld. He believes that children need secure attachments to their adult caregivers and has found that healthy child development takes place naturally when strong, loving relationships are in place.
Adrian’s consulting work is also informed heavily by the work of Hannah Beach and its emphasis on emotional, social, cognitive, and physical development through play.
Adrian provides parent consultation for families with school-aged children between the ages of 5 to 18. His special areas of interests and expertise include anxiety, attention, aggression, peer orientation, school refusal, resistance and opposition.
Adrian also enjoys supporting men in their transition to parenthood. He also works individually with teens, supporting them with the feelings and experiences that can come with the often-turbulent transition to adulthood.
Adrian is a Canadian Certified Counsellor registered with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Your session fees may be covered (or partially covered) by extended health plans that recognize the C.C.C. designation. Contact your provider for details.
Contact Adrian: https://www.adrianjuric.com/parent-consulting
Tamara Strijack
Tamara Strijack is a registered clinical counsellor, parent consultant and the academic dean of the Neufeld Institute, where she develops and delivers courses and workshops supporting parents, teachers, and helping professionals around the world make sense of children through developmental science. She is the co-author (with Hannah Beach) of the best-selling book, Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever—And What We Can Do About It. Tamara provides emotional health consulting for schools and advises on the development of new programs that foster the social and emotional growth of all students. Connection, relationship, and play continue to be central themes in all her roles, both personally and professionally.
Tamara’s provides parent consultation for families with children of all ages, including adult children. Her special areas of interests and expertise include anxiety; attention problems; neurodivergence and sensitivity, navigating separation, divorce and coparenting; alternative learning and home education; behavioural and sleep challenges and navigating adolescence.
Tamara is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counselors (BCACC). Your session fees may be covered (or partially covered) by extended health plans that recognize the Registered Clinical Counsellor designation. Contact your provider for details.
Contact Tamara: https://www.tamarastrijack.ca/contact
Hannah Beach
Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, emotional health consultant, parent consultant and keynote speaker. She is the co-author (with Tamara Strijack) of the best-selling book Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut-Down than Ever—and What We Can Do About It. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. Her bestselling I Can Dance book series, supporting the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression, won a 2017 Gold International Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.
Hannah delivers talks for parents and educators across the globe, provides emotional health consulting to schools and community-based programs, and speaks at conferences about the power of relationship and play. Her approach is deeply grounded in the attachment model developed by Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
Hannah’s provides parent consultation for families with children of all ages. Her special areas of interest and expertise include parenting in a distracted dopamine chasing culture and supporting families in understanding how to bring play back into their children’s lives. She also supports parents with understanding some of the specific dynamics of adolescence and how best to support their teen as they make the (often bumpy) transition to adulthood.
Hannah is not a registered clinical counselor. Your session fees will not be covered by any extended health plans.
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Based on the relational developmental approach of Dr. Gordon Neufeld, the below two books offer invaluable insights as well as relationship based strategies to support the unfolding of human potential.
