Description

Anchored is a practical, trauma informed guide for counsellors who support parents in developing emotional regulation. This module equips counsellors with practical strategies to help parents stay grounded while supporting children through emotional storms. By combining emotional coaching, trauma-informed insights, and reflective questioning, counsellors can guide parents to recognize and regulate their own emotions, model healthy coping, and create secure environments where children feel both loved and guided. The module integrates research insights, metaphors, visual aids, and scripts to make emotional learning accessible and sustainable beyond the counseling room. Ultimately, it empowers parents to break cycles of negative patterns, nurture emotional safety, and develop emotional regulation and emotional intelligence not only in themselves, but also their children.

Additional resources:

• Emotional Awareness Exercises 
• Printable scripts - What parents can think, say and do to stay regulated while supporting children through emotional storms.
• Questionnaires and exercises
• Regulation strategies (Co-regulation and Self-regulation strategies)
• Emotions and Needs Inquiry 
• Emotional Granularity List 
• Printable Resources
   

Here is exactly what we cover in this course:

• The role of parental personality in emotional regulation
• The role of parenting style in emotional regulation
• How to break unconscious patterns and build awareness
• How children’s emotions affect parents, and why.
• The importance of Trauma-informed parenting
• Emotion Coaching for Parents
  • Building Emotional Awareness
  • Building Emotional Granularity
  • Emotional Awareness Exercises
  • Co-regulation and Self-regulation
• When the Hurricane Hits   - when parents “lose it”
  • Rupture and Repair
• Becoming the Lighthouse in the Storm
  • Modelling Emotional Awareness
  • Narrating the Regulation Process
• Becoming the Wind Behind Their Backs