Parent & Family Coaching
You shouldn't have to be the coach, case manager, and bad cop
Strategy, honest feedback, and practical tools for families who are tired of daily conflict and constant managing.
Sound familiar?
When the whole family is stretched thin
Parents usually arrive exhausted and out of ideas that survive real life. You might be here because:
- Every school morning, homework session, or chore request turns into a negotiation or a blow-up
- You've become the external brain: reminding, checking, rescuing, and resenting it
- Your teen has shut you out, and pushing harder makes it worse
- A young adult is home with no plan, and every conversation about it detonates
- You and your co-parent disagree about how much to push and how much to protect
- Advice built for neurotypical kids keeps failing, and people keep offering more of it
What we work on
Strategy for the people holding the system together
Practical, judgment-free working sessions on what is happening in your house this week.
Understanding the why
What executive function challenges, autistic burnout, and demand avoidance actually look like at home, so behavior stops reading as defiance or laziness.
Lowering conflict
Scripts and structures for the hardest moments, including mornings, screens, homework, chores, and curfews. The goal is to reduce battles, not win them.
Building buy-in
How to hand ownership to your teen or young adult in steps they'll accept, instead of holding it all or dropping it all at once.
The launch plan
A realistic, staged path toward independence for young adults at home, expectations, contributions, timelines, and what to do when it stalls.
Parenting as a team
Getting parents, step-parents, and other caregivers aligned enough that the plan survives the week.
Working with the system
Navigating schools, IEPs, 504s, and other providers. Parents learn what to ask for and how to be heard.
Guided by The Castellanos Compass™
Every engagement moves through Clarity, Alignment, Foundation, and Expansion. The framework gives the work direction while keeping it personal to the client.
What changes
A calmer house, a stronger relationship
The aim isn't a compliant kid. It's a family system where expectations are clear, conflict is rarer, and independence grows on purpose.
- Fewer daily battles, and faster recovery from the ones that happen
- A shared, realistic plan both you and your kid can name
- Less rescuing and reminding as their own systems take hold
- Alignment between caregivers on what matters most right now
- Warmth back in the relationship, parent again, not project manager
Who this is for
Parents and caregivers of neurodivergent teens and young adults, whether or not the young person is also in coaching.
Parent sessions help the whole family move in the same direction, with clear privacy agreements when individual coaching is involved.
Not sure this is the right fit? That is what the free consultation is for. Reach out and Gregory will help you sort it out.
Related coaching
You don't have to figure this out alone.
Schedule a free consultation and talk through what is happening at home.
Choose an available daytime or limited evening appointment. Consultations are held remotely through Google Meet.
Prefer email? gregcastellanoswork@gmail.com