Dannielle Gabi

Early Childhood Parenting Coach, Family and Couples Therapist
Director and Founder of “Tipat Halav” Family Health Station, Los Angeles
Certified by the Adler Institute and Tel-Hai College in Group and Individual Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching and Consultation
Parent coaching is one of the most fascinating psychological processes. It involves collaboration with parents, children, or adolescents and often with family dynamics and school professionals. As a parenting coach, I commit to teaching effective communication between parents and children through emotional intelligence and to being knowledgeable in child therapy, couple relationships, systemic work, and the professional dynamics within the education system. The true artistry lies in having a keen eye and integrative thinking to pinpoint and address the right issue with the parents.
Parent coaching is a psycho-educational intervention to change parenting patterns to help parents cope with their children’s challenges. It offers emotional support and guidance on effective parenting. The focus is on what parents can do and change at home to support their children. This practical guidance often involves analyzing specific situations at home and providing parents with tools to better meet their child’s emotional needs and improve their functioning.
My Vision: Love Brings Love
Everyone inherently knows what they need, just as every parent knows why they seek guidance. As a family coach and therapist, I help parents refine and communicate their complaints and challenges into actionable requests. My primary goal in coaching is to fulfill the parent’s request with practical tips and tools infused with love and empathy. Achieving these “small” goals brings parents great joy and satisfaction. Concurrently, an important objective is achieved: parents’ sense of competence, moving from a state of helplessness to empowerment. We have succeeded when parents feel capable of managing and leading their family according to their values and beliefs.
Why Is This Important?
Various factors can impact our children, disrupting their emotional balance and causing distress. When you struggle to understand and resolve the issue, I provide professional advice to help you comprehend the challenge and offer targeted, practical guidance on assisting your beloved children.
Parenting is a crucial and central role we take on almost without prior preparation, yet we expect ourselves to know how to raise our children correctly and effortlessly. Our primary goal as parents is to raise our children in a healthy, emotionally, and physically sound manner, to be positive role models, to provide the best education, and to teach them to be independent and responsible contributors to themselves and society.
Primarily, we cannot always understand our child’s inner world, making it difficult to explain changes in mood and behavior. Identifying the root cause of emotional distress is even more challenging. Various factors can affect our children and trigger emotional distress: environmental factors, such as parental conflicts over child-rearing that create power struggles and tension at home; different parenting styles ranging from strict and punitive to permissive or overprotective; life crises, such as exposure to traumatic events, death of a parent, divorce, accidents, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, chronic illness, and transitions like moving homes or schools, immigration, and financial decline.
Why Do Parents Struggle with Raising Their Children?
Many parents struggle due to significant social and cultural changes in modern society. These changes have made the role of parenting more complex and challenging: Our society has shifted from a traditional authoritative model to an open one, leading to a loss of social norms and rules that previously guided parents. There has been a significant shift from focusing on adult needs to prioritizing the needs and rights of children. This increased parental dedication often yields to children’s desires, affecting their ability to handle frustration and effort. For instance, a child with adequate academic abilities may avoid homework or household chores, claiming a lack of energy. To prevent conflicts, some parents provide for all their children’s needs, including expensive gifts, lavish birthday parties, and more. Parents “excessive” dedication creates dependency in children, making it difficult for them to develop independence and autonomy.
Moreover, in today’s world, both parents often work long hours and are frequently absent from home due to work pressures, compensating for guilt with gifts. In addition, the internet now plays a significant role in children’s lives, reducing physical and social activities. Prolonged exposure to online content can lead to addiction in some children.
My Foundational Beliefs as a Family and Couples Therapist
• The responsibility for family relationships lies with the parents as the Management Team.
• In most cases, a child’s behavior and reactions are responses to the stimuli and messages they receive from their parents.
• Repetitive behavior (by the parent and/or the child) serves an underlying personal need, consciously or unconsciously.
My Approach to Parent Coaching
Parent coaching under my guidance focuses on practical actions at home, balancing between behavioral and practical aspects of “what to do” and deeper understandings.