About Me

If you’re here, chances are you care deeply about your child and you are trying to figure out how to show up in a way that actually helps. You may be parenting through big challenges, everyday struggles, or a quiet sense that what you are doing no longer feels aligned with the parent you want to be.

My name is Adoria. I am a parent, a certified parent coach, and someone who has lived through both the ordinary and the life-altering realities of raising children.

Parenting Across Different Stages and Struggles

My husband Chris and I are parents to two kids, a 19-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son.

Like many families, we did not set out expecting to need intensive parenting support. As our daughter entered her high school years, she began struggling in ways that felt bigger than what we could handle on our own. What began as concern quickly turned into fear. Eventually, we found ourselves parenting through her struggles with mental health, addiction, and crisis.

Our son is navigating ADHD, screen time challenges, and a strong, persistent temperament that keeps us learning daily. His struggles are different from his sister’s, but they are no less real. Parenting him has required patience, creativity, and constant recalibration. There are days filled with connection and humor, and days marked by exhaustion, power struggles, and the feeling that no matter how hard we try, we are missing something.

Living in both of these realities at once taught me something important. Parenting challenges do not come in one shape or at one stage. They shift as our children grow, and they ask different things of us along the way.

Whether the struggle shows up as addiction, ADHD, emotional dysregulation, defiance, or constant conflict, the underlying question for parents is often the same:

How do I help my child without losing myself or the relationship we are trying so hard to protect?

What Changed Everything

Through support, education, and lived experience, we began to understand something that changed everything.

Beneath every behavior is a nervous system doing its best to cope. Beneath every reaction is an unmet need, a feeling, or a story that deserves curiosity rather than control.

We learned how to regulate ourselves when emotions ran high. We learned how to respond instead of react. We learned how to hold boundaries without breaking connection.

There is no straightforward path and no perfect formula. What there is instead is learning. Learning how to repair when things go wrong. Learning how to stay present in moments we want to escape. Learning how to parent in a way that aligns with our values rather than our fear.

Why I Became A Parent Coach

As our daughter’s high school graduation came into view, I found myself filled with deep gratitude for the tools, support, and community that carried us through some of our hardest seasons. And with that gratitude came clarity.

I knew that what we had learned could not stay contained within our family or one group. Parents everywhere are navigating hard moments, often believing they are failing when they are actually learning.

That realization is what led me to become a Certified Parent Coach through the Jai Institute of Parenting and to create The Navigated Middle Parent Coaching.

My work brings together lived experience, a bachelor's degree in psychology, parent coaching certification, and evidence-based parenting frameworks to support parents at every stage. This work is not about fixing children. It is about supporting parents in becoming calmer, clearer, and more confident so connection and growth can follow.

Who I Work With

I work with parents at all stages of the parenting journey.

Some parents come to me in the middle of significant challenges. Others come because daily parenting feels harder than they expected, even when nothing looks “wrong” from the outside. Many are somewhere in between.

I support parents who are navigating:

parenting young children, tweens, teens, or young adults
ADHD, emotional regulation challenges, or intense behavior
substance use, recovery, or mental health struggles
power struggles, defiance, or frequent conflict
disconnection after rupture or ongoing stress
feeling reactive, overwhelmed, or unsure how to respond
a desire to parent with both structure and compassion

You do not need to be in crisis to work with a parent coach. Many parents come because they want to feel calmer, more confident, and more aligned in how they show up with their children.

My work is especially supportive for parents who are: