About

Listening and Guiding Parents to Answers

For over 30 years, I have dedicated my time to understanding parents and families and finding ways to help families navigate life’s transitions.
Through my Parenting with Dr Wendy site, I use what I have learned to help parents and families navigate life challenges and build resilience and strong, healthy relationships.

My Mission Centers on the Principles of Being…

Curious in understanding you and your family
Compassionate as a listener
Collaborative in exploring ideas fitting you and your family
Certified to assure options incorporate best practice
I understand that each transition brings unique challenges, from becoming parents to supporting aging family members. Our gentle guidance helps families create healthy environments for their children while developing the tools needed for lifelong success.

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Culturally Affirming Approach

An Approach That Starts With You

My approach is one that understands you and empowers you to build on what fits you and your family with a beginning focus on what matters most to you, your values, and your family’s lived experience.

I believe in parents taking care of their children in ways that feel good and feel right. What I offer is the opportunity to explore how to reach your goals in a way that best positions both you and your children to succeed. I help by integrating developmentally important, sound, and safe information into your goals and family trajectories—always with your children’s well-being at the center.

This work is grounded in culturally affirming support, offering therapy that respects your cultural identity, lived experiences, and unique challenges, while providing a safe space for reflection, growth, and healing.

(Adapted from APA guidance on culturally affirming mental health support.)
I approach my work by being--
Curious to understand you and your family
Compassionate as a listener
Collaborative in exploring ideas fitting you and your family
Credentialed to assure options incorporate best practice

Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a focus on learning, development, and family sciences

Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) for the last over 26 years and parent educator for over 34 years.
Member of the American Psychological Association, National Council on Family Relations, Society for Research in Child Development, Society for Research in Adolescence, and World Association of Infant Mental Health
Editor of Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (2019-2025). Guest Editor, Biosocial Models of Family Science and Co-Guest Editor, Translational Family Science

How I Think About Parenting Support

Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults face many challenges—social, emotional, developmental, cultural, and systemic.

Supporting their health and well-being requires understanding challenges and empowering families with knowledge and options.

By approaching families as a Curious, Compassionate, Collaborative, and Credentialed Parent Coach, I help families engage in creative problem-solving that empowers everyone involved by focusing on the next best step, starting from where you are.

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At the Heart of My Work

Meeting Families Where they Are, Listening and Guiding them toward healthy outcomes building a tapestry of family weaving development, culture, responsiveness, boundaries, and care illustrating their unique pattern of family life.

Start Your Family’s Journey Today

Begin by scheduling an Coaching Session or 15-Minute Introductory Session.

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Parenting With Dr. Wendy

Your Parent Coach Nurturing Your Family through all Life Transitions

Curious to understand you and your family
Compassionate as a listener
Collaborative in exploring ideas fitting you and your family
Credentialed to assure options incorporate best practice

And now you have a baby 😊

Let Dr Wendy share her background in parenting infants and toddlers to support you and your family.
Navigating from the many changes you encounter from infancy through the toddler years is helped by knowing what to expect and how to create healthy environments. At Parenting With Dr. Wendy, I can listen and help you build on best practices to create a secure, loving parenting approach for these earliest stages of growth.

Parenting School-Age Children

Parenting Adolescents

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Bridges Through Times of Change

Transition from parenting a child to parenting an adolescent. Helping them grow toward independence while providing safety and limits. Dr. Wendy can provide guidance supporting your family.

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Parenting Adolescents Moving Toward Adulthood

Can one of the pictures be of an older adolescent doing some work related activity not related to college.

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Nurturing Your Adolescents’ Talents and Goals

College, Work, a Year Off. Every young adult…