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Our Team
Taylor Ross
Trauma-Informed Family Wellness and Education Consultant
Taylor is a speaker, workshop leader and consultant who specializes in helping parents and educators build and repair healthy dynamics and support child/community/family development. She provides a safe and empathetic environment while helping clients integrate their own nuanced understandings of topics such as:
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Child and brain development
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The importance of the strength and nature of the attachment relationship
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Aggression, counter-will, rupture, and repair
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Seeing beneath childhood behavior to the feelings and needs that need support
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The relevance of parental/caregiver growth and self awareness
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Working with stress and overwhelm through meditation and mindfulness
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Setting developmentally appropriate limits with compassion and confidence
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Shifting the adult/child dynamic from control to supportive connection
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Experiences and effects of trauma, loss and resilience
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Age appropriate approaches to challenging conversations
Taylor Ross’ passion for supporting the emotional wellbeing of families has led her to seek a unique variety of trainings. She is a U-Mass Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health graduate, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has certificates in Buddhist Psychology and Meditation and Non-Violent Parenting and Education. She is a certified Montessori Teacher, has been trained in Mediation, Motivational Interviewing and Parenting Coordination.
"Our children come in with flashlights and magnifying glasses, asking us to tend to our most tender and underdeveloped parts, so that we can show up for and with them as whole, sound mirrors to their developing selves. When we think about becoming parents, this is rarely what is spoken or thought about. The brave work of tending to these places in ourselves often happens in private and is coupled with shame and a delusional sense that it should be easier or others know innately how to do this with more grace."
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Taylor
Susannah Barley
Parenting Coach
Susannah Barley has been working intimately with families since 2013 to support the emotional and transformative terrain of parenthood. She is a graduate of Hand in Hand, a research based, practical and emotionally intelligent approach to parenting that puts the quality of your relationship and emotional connection with your child in the forefront.
Susannah is also a professionally trained life coach. She is a lifelong learner and is passionate about keeping her education current with experts in the fields of parenting, child development, communication, nutrition and mental health research. She integrates supportive therapeutic modalities in her work such as Motivational Interviewing, somatics and trauma healing.
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Susannah has been training with Taylor Ross with The Practice of Parenting for two years engaging in deep conversation on the contemplation of parenting as a vehicle for family healing and human evolution.
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She is also the parent of her finest instructor to date, her 20 year old son.
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"As a life-long professional violinist, I'm trained in the art of listening to those around me, whether they be fellow musicians or parents and children. Making beautiful music in this way provides a critical skill for making a harmonious family song. I love to encourage parents to nurture this skill"