Fiona Ng Parenting Coach

I did my 6 month training with the Jai Institute of Parenting whilst also doing certifications in NLP and I qualified as a Positive Parenting Workshop Facilitator and took on my first client at the back end of 2018.

I’ve worked remotely since then with parents from all over the world with most of my clients being from America in the early days as I think they were a a bit more forward thinking when it comes to conscious parenting with the UK now slowly catching up.

I’ve worked extensively with individuals and couples over these years which has given me great insights into the struggles parents have behind close doors. Many parents reach out to me with a huge long list of concerns about their child eager to get tools, tips and strategies and are perhaps some what surprised that this isn’t what they receive.

I’m not a teacher, I’m not an expert, I’m not here to tell you what to do and I’m certainly not super nanny.

I am more of a guide with a therapeutic approach – many of my parenting clients actually find it hard to describe what I am referring to me more as a ‘parenting therapist’ then a parenting coach and this is perhaps true.

After working with parents for a number of years I realised many parents are struggling with their kids because they have unhealed trauma and are spending most of their time dysregulated and outside their window of tolerance, so it makes complete sense why parents are stressed, depleted, worn out and unable to get to the root cause of their child’s behaviour.

Seeing this time and time again when working with parents I decided to dive into the work of Dr Gabor Maté who is a world renowned expert in the field of trauma and embarked on his professional training completing level 1 in his Compassionate Inquiry approach.

Upon completing this training I then signed up to Peter Levine’s three year Somatic Experiencing training which I am currently in year 1.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is where my current passion is because I first hand have experienced the life changing results that this therapy brings. I have been having weekly SE sessions since February 2022 which is on going alongside my professional training.

Somatic Experiencing works with a clients nervous system and not necessarily the story. Many of my clients are well educated in conscious parenting, have read the books, done the online courses, listened to the podcasts, got the tools and strategies yet still cannot implement what they have learnt when they are in triggering moments with their children.

Why is this?

Because we need to work somatically – meaning we have to work with the body and this is the piece that is normally missing for parents!

“The SE approach aims to safely release traumatic shock ‘frozen’ in the body at times of overwhelm, allowing for a natural transformation of both PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early childhood trauma.

SE offers a way to explore where a person is “stuck” in the stressful fight, flight or freeze responses, and provides practical clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It teaches simple, effective skills that mobilise the body’s innate self-healing systems – the same physiological processes that mend broken bones and fight disease.”

I now blend parent coaching and somatics bringing a more embodied approach to clients. On our sessions together more silent space is created as a client learns to become aware of and track their bodily sensations. It’s through this gradual process that clients learn how to stay with their dysregulation and befriend difficult emotions. As they do this they then build their resilience and capacity to be maintain a level of ‘okayness’ in tricky situations with their children. Not only that but as parents learn to self regulate they are then able to bring a new nervous system for their child to be able to co-regulate with. It really is a beautiful process.

Hopefully this makes sense.

If you are curious to experience a session with me you can first reach out for an initial parent consult call where I get to learn a little bit more about you and your family. You can make an enquiry by filling out the following form here: or you can email me on fiona@happymeparenting.com

I have a podcast: Conscious Parenting UK and lots of people first find out about me from my instagram @happymeparenting

I look forward to hearing from you.