Parent Coach-Kennedy Halling

Kennedy Halling-Parent and Youth Coach

Clinic: The Family Room

Parent Coach and Youth Coach

If you would like additional Parent Coaching support after four sessions, there will be an opportunity to join a group of parents who have been through Parent Coaching. The group will have confidential guidelines and be facilitated by Kennedy.

Bio

As a former middle school Family & Consumer Sciences teacher, Kennedy has coached students through difficult situations and helped parents support their teens at home. Kennedy’s passion for helping families motivated her to earn a Master’s in Family Science from Concordia St. Paul and become a Certified Family Life Educator and Trauma-Informed Youth, Parent, and Family Coach.

Kennedy believes it’s never been more challenging to be a teen or a parent of a teen, which prompted her transition from the classroom to create The Family Room: a dedicated space for teens and their families to thrive.

Kennedy specializes in helping families connect through improved communication and setting effective boundaries. She also supports parents navigating overwhelming emotions and behaviors by encouraging households to function without the need for raised voices, shame, or punishment. Kennedy says the best part about coaching is getting to know the uniqueness of and empowering families.

Kennedy offers coaching services at school, at home, and virtually. She also facilitates teen-only and parent-teen connection events and is a CCS Provider in Chippewa County.

For fun, Kennedy enjoys trying new restaurants and recipes, challenging family members to a game of Uno, and playing with her 90-pound Golden Retriever, Miller.

TESTIMONIALS

“The group was very good, and it calmed me down a lot. When you feeling stressed this class is a time to just relax and think about everything and it soothes your mind.” “I liked that every time I needed to relax or talk about something I would not get judged that place was a free spot.” “Being in the relax group really helped me become calm, and know what to do in times when I’m overwhelmed. The Relax Group also helped me focus on everyday tasks, and the group gave some incredibly good advice :)”

Student feedback about a Relax Group

As a parent having the School Based Mental Health available has been very helpful with my child. The process has gone smoothly from the initial contact to being able to choose a therapist that may work best with my child to the therapist working directly with my child. This is also helpful that they are able to come directly to my child at the school so that they are missing less school and I as a parent need to miss less work as well. Overall the whole experience has been a positive one for both myself and my child.

CFAUSD Parent

As a therapist, having the School Based Mental Health available for students is very important in many aspects. School is an area where children spend a great amount of their time and the schools are able to work with the therapists to help in any areas that they may be struggling in. The schools have all been very open with working with me as a therapist and the children are able to still get services that are needed for either home or school issues without having to miss more time at school since the therapy is able to be done right at the school settings. Being able to provide this service for families is a great asset for everyone involved.

School Based Mental Health Therapist