COMPASS is a 6-month group programme

for parents of strong-willed teens who feel like they’re walking on eggshells, losing connection, or quietly panicking about their teen’s mental health.

Parenting a strong-willed teen can feel emotionally demanding and isolating. You may find yourself constantly monitoring your tone, your reactions, and the impact of every conversation, all while quietly carrying the emotional weight of how intense this stage feels and worrying about your teen’s well-being. If that’s where you are, you’re not alone.

You may be thoughtful and measured. You stay calm. You think carefully about your words. You explain your boundaries clearly and respectfully. And still, more often than not, it doesn’t land.

As a result, your teen pushes back, shuts down, or becomes upset, and it can suddenly feel much harder to hold boundaries or connection without things escalating or unravelling.

This is not because you are getting it wrong.

In those moments, it isn’t necessarily your communication that’s the problem. It’s what’s happening underneath.

• Fear of upsetting your teen or damaging the relationship.
• The pressure to keep everything steady and to be a ‘good’ parent.

What many parents don't realise is that even when you look calm on the outside, your nervous system may be communicating something very different, and that’s what your teen feels.

In COMPASS, we work to bring these two things back into alignment. So what you are saying and what you are feeling match.

Together, we gently explore what sits beneath your parenting style.

The stories you’ve picked up over a lifetime about who you are, your beliefs, what conflict, closeness, and responsibility mean, and what defines a good parent.

We look at the assumptions and limiting beliefs that walk alongside you into difficult moments, often without you even realising they’re there.

Through gentle, bite-sized learning, weekly live support, and a community that truly understands the emotional weight of parenting a teen, COMPASS offers a space where you can slow things down. A space to understand and regulate your own nervous system and loosen the grip of those internal pressures.

As steadiness builds,

• Boundaries begin to feel safer to hold.
• Communication becomes clearer.
• Connection starts to feel less fragile

We focus on the three areas parents tell me they feel the hardest:

No more walking on eggshells
Finding ways to stay grounded and emotionally steady, even when your teen is upset, withdrawn, or pushing back.

Easing the constant fear about their mental health
Gently understanding what is really going on beneath the surface, and how to support your teen without losing yourself or living in a state of quiet alarm.

Rebuilding a connection that lasts

Not by being better or trying harder, but by parenting from a place of calm authority and emotional safety that your teen can actually feel.

Over time, parents describe feeling more anchored and less reactive.

They stop

• Holding their breath.
• Boundaries are no longer held from fear.
• Repair feels more natural after the inevitable bumps.
• And connection grows as a by-product of steadiness, rather than something to chase or manage.

If you would like to know more about COMPASS, I would love to chat with you.