Family Coaching
Kat's Family Coaching provides intensive support for families with infants to teenagers, drawing on resiliency and strengths, shifting challenging behaviors or dynamics quickly and allowing for families to build a strong foundation that better prepares each member for any unexpected obstacles in the future.
Testimonials
“I feel so much more confident and able to handle anything that comes my way.”
“Parents in need of perspective and support, kids grappling with changes in their lives, individuals learning to set boundaries and prioritize self-love and joy, & learning how to create more coherent containers.
If Kat is in your corner, growth is guaranteed. She provides immediate, actionable tools and is masterful at helping you plant seeds that create sustainable and radical transformation. I am more self-aware, others-aware, and so much kinder to myself. She’s not afraid to push you and is there to remind you how to play and prioritize pleasure, especially with what’s hard.”
“My ex-partner and I could have never co-parented without Kat’s support. She was a life saver”
“I am a step parent and Kat transformed our family. She was honest and like a gentle force. She helped me become part of the family. ”
“I didn’t know how to ask for what I needed or even what I needed after my baby was born. Kat not only helped me wade through the postpartum blues, but helped me to both care for and bond with my baby. ”
“Watching Kat with my two year old taught me to use play to avoid tantrums. Now I use games all the time. It made my life so much easier ”
“We have a baby and a 4 year old. Our baby had colic and our 4 year old was struggling in school, hitting other kids. She helped me with both at the same time. We are so grateful.”
“Kat took my pre-teen climbing as a way to build his confidence and for him to have more ways to navigate his feelings. His connection with her has supported our whole family. ”
“I learned how to take care of myself with Kat, so I could give more fully to my family. I will always be so grateful for her and the tools she gave me.”
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WHAT I OFFER:
One on One coaching with the whole family and each member. I support families in addressing the challenges they face, so there is more ease and connection. Some of my focuses include:
Transforming parent-child power struggles from toddlers to teens or shifting challenging behaviors
Improving your child’s emotional regulation with full emotional range
Supporting kiddos who feel a lot - sensory integration
Supporting divorced parents in co-parenting, including support for step parents.
Repairing and Growing connection in parent-child relationships, or between siblings.
Couple support for parents - building united force with parenting and reigniting connection.
LGBTQAI+ Parenting and supporting kids who are identifying as trans, non-binary or LGBTQAI+
Support for solo parenting and adoptive parents.
Harmonizing the challenges of each developmental stage.
About Me
Kat Whipple, MSW
I have been coaching parents and working with children for over 20 years. My work with families has taken many paths over the years: running early childhood programs, teaching parenting classes, working as a child and family therapist, providing birth and postpartum coaching, and running parenting trainings for parents and professionals. I have also worked extensively with teenager to young adults in independent skills and transitional living programs. What I have enjoyed the most is empowering parents to build the resiliency and self-care they need to care for themselves, each other and their little/big loves with nervous system agility for the whole family.
I founded the Hatch Community in 2015 in the Bay Area, graduated from Smith College with my Masters in Clinical Social Work in 2012 and Matrixworks for family and group counseling and healing in 2006.
In addition to one on one coaching for families, Kat occasionally offers group consults or classes. If interested, contact her directly for more information and inquiries.
Check out what other coaching Kat does: www.katwhipple.com and some of her work in the community: www.thehatchcommunity.org