Vashti Summervill

About Me

My mission is to be the person I needed during some of our darkest moments as a family. I am a PCI Certified Parent Coach® and a licensed teacher. I combine my experiences as an educator and as a parent to help develop programs to support, coach, and educate parents, especially those struggling in their relationship with “tweens,” teens and young adults.

Many of my clients are parents of adolescents through young adults who are trapped in power struggles and the relationship is deteriorating. Some of the parents I work with have a teen or young adult who is stuck and perhaps engaging in unhealthy and risky behavior. Coaching is very different from therapy and not meant to take the place of mental health services. However, for many of my clients, parent coaching can be an important part of moving the family towards better functioning in conjunction with therapy.

Struggles that parents sometimes seek parent coaching with me for include:

• Self-Care While Parenting
• Power Struggles
• Stuck Communication Patterns
• Low Self-esteem
• Repairing the Parent/Child Relationship
• Experimenting with Drugs and Alcohol
• School Refusal
• Depression Anxiety
• Screen Issues
• Self-harm
• Suicidal Ideation

I help parents move from reactive parenting to intentional parenting. Together, we create strategies, tools, and resources for raising resilient children for today’s world while still taking care of yourself. We work on the following principles and how to apply them to your unique family circumstances:

• Perspective taking/becoming students of your child’s world
• Improving communication
• Building connection and repairing relationships
• Parenting for resilience
• Holding life-giving boundaries