Parent Coaching UK | Happy Me Parenting
You love your children, but sometimes parenting brings up more than you know how to handle.
Perhaps you’ve read the books, tried to stay calm and promised yourself you’d respond differently next time. Yet when your child shouts, refuses to listen or pushes your buttons, you find yourself reacting in ways you wish you didn’t.
You’re not alone. And you don’t necessarily need another parenting strategy.
I’m Fiona Ng, a parent coach and qualified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I help parents understand the patterns beneath their parenting struggles, develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their children, and find new ways of responding.
My approach combines conscious parenting, attachment-informed understanding and nervous system awareness to support meaningful, lasting change within families.
You don’t have to be a perfect parent. You just need space to understand what’s happening and find a different way forward.
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When you know what to do, but can't seem to do it
You might recognise some of these experiences.
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You lose your patience with your children, even though you promised yourself you wouldn’t parent the way you were parented.
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Your child’s big emotions leave you feeling overwhelmed, frustrated or helpless.
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You struggle with boundaries, guilt or the fear of getting things wrong.
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You find yourself caught in the same arguments and power struggles, wondering how things keep ending up this way.
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You understand the theory of gentle or conscious parenting, but putting it into practice feels much harder.
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You worry about how your own childhood experiences might be affecting your children.
Many of the parents I work with are thoughtful, caring people who genuinely want to do things differently. They’ve often spent years trying to understand themselves and their children.
But understanding something intellectually doesn’t always mean we can access it in the heat of the moment.
This is where we begin.
Rather than focusing only on changing your child’s behaviour, we explore what’s happening beneath the surface and how you can develop more choice in the way you respond.
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A different approach to parent coaching
Traditional parenting advice often focuses on what to do: how to set boundaries, manage behaviour or respond to a tantrum.
These things can be helpful. But sometimes they don’t address the whole picture.
When we’re overwhelmed, triggered or stretched beyond our capacity, even the best advice can be difficult to put into practice.
My approach recognises that parenting is influenced by more than what we know. Our own experiences, emotional responses and nervous systems can all play a part in how we relate to our children.
Through our work together, we can explore:
Understanding your patterns
Recognise the experiences and reactions that may be influencing your parenting today, without blame or judgement.
Making sense of your child’s behaviour
Look beyond the behaviour itself and develop a deeper understanding of your child’s emotions, needs and relationship with you.
Developing greater emotional awareness
Notice what happens within you during difficult moments and explore ways to respond with more steadiness and flexibility.
Building connection without losing boundaries
Develop a parenting approach that values connection, respect and emotional understanding while recognising that children still need boundaries and guidance.
The aim isn’t to get everything right. It’s to create more understanding, more connection and more room for things to change.
Conscious parenting creates space for a child to be fully seen, heard, validated, respected and unconditionally loved.
Meet Fiona Ng
I’m Fiona, founder of Happy Me Parenting, parent coach and mum to two daughters. I live in North Tyneside and work with parents online across the UK and internationally.
I began working as a parent coach in 2018, after training with the Jai Institute of Parenting. My own journey into conscious parenting had changed the way I understood my relationship with my children and sparked a desire to help other parents explore a different way of being together.
Over time, I became increasingly interested in why we can understand how we want to parent, yet struggle to put it into practice when emotions run high.
This led me to train in Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented approach to understanding and working with stress and trauma.
Today, my work brings together these different perspectives. I’m interested in what happens beneath the surface of family life, and in helping parents approach themselves and their children with greater understanding rather than shame.
I don’t believe parents need fixing. I believe we need the space to understand ourselves, recognise our patterns and discover what becomes possible when we approach them differently.
Training and Qualifications
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) – Somatic Experiencing International (SOSI), 2022–2025
Trained in Dr Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing approach, with faculty including Kavi Gemin and Abi Blakeslee.
Therapeutic Presence, Rhythm, and Connection – 2-day professional workshop with Dr Peter Levine, London (2023) Focused on relational attunement, pacing, and nervous system co-regulation in therapeutic work.
Trauma through a Child’s eyes playshop with Maggie Kline -3 day professional workshop. (June 2023)
Compassionate Inquiry® – Level 1 (2021)
Trauma-informed therapeutic approach developed by Dr Gabor Maté.
Parent Coach – Jai Institute of Parenting (2018–2019)
Time Out for Parents Facilitator Training (2019) Licence expired as of 2026
NLP Practitioner – Communicating Excellence (2017)
I’m listed on the Somatic Experiencing Association UK (SEA UK) practitioner directory and trained through the Jai Institute of Parenting.
Frequently asked questions
What is parent coaching?
Parent coaching is personalised support that helps you understand your parenting challenges, explore your goals and develop new ways of responding to your children. My approach looks beyond behaviour-management strategies to consider relationships, emotional patterns and nervous system awareness.
Who do you work with?
I work with parents who want to understand their children and themselves more deeply, including those struggling with emotional outbursts, power struggles, boundaries, guilt or recurring patterns in family life.
Can I work with you online?
Yes. I offer online parent coaching, allowing parents across the UK and internationally to access support from home.
Is this therapy or coaching?
My parent coaching draws on my experience and training in conscious parenting, attachment-informed work and nervous system awareness. It is focused on parenting and family relationships, rather than being presented as a substitute for psychotherapy or mental health treatment.
You don’t have to figure it all out alone
If you’re ready to look beyond the usual parenting advice and understand what’s happening beneath the surface of your family life, I’d love to hear from you.
We can start with where you are now, without judgement or pressure to have all the answers.
Happy Me Parenting — supporting parents to create more connection, understanding and choice in family life.
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