What We Do
We provide a personalized, evidenced-based approach for parenting your child, guided by your inner wisdom. ​
How We Do It
Through individualized support for families in the comfort of their own homes (or via video call), with phone and email support.
Why It Matters
Parent coaching encourages you to examine how you're showing up for your child and consciously choose parenting strategies that create a more
harmonious family dynamic.
Services
Learn more about how Gail can support your family.
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Group Coaching
Gather four to eight fellow parents and we can explore the challenges of parenting more deeply. Together we'll work on understanding our family of origin, our experiences and how they relate to raising our children can empower us to become more confident parents. We can meet on a regular basis, growing and encouraging each other.
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1:1 Support
Personalized Parent Coaching
I offer 1:1 coaching in your home or via Zoom. Prior to our time together I will review your concerns, each family member’s temperament profile, and your child’s developmental stage. First I work with the whole family for an hour; the second hour will be adults only so we can personalize and implement plans for your family.
About Gail Root
With an M.A in Clinical Psychology, Pre & Perinatal Psychology and a B.S in Child Development as well as 50 years of experience in the field- as a parent coach, mom, grandma, entrepreneur, and more; I am well suited to support your journey through parenthood.
I founded Parents Place in 1988, and the Monterey County Maternal Mental Health Task Force in 2016. I also have served on the Board of the Birth Network of Monterey County. I was the program manager who set up the Parenting Connection of Monterey County. Having served in Monterey County as a Volunteer for over 35 years, I was honored to receive the Monterey County Outstanding Woman of the Year in 2002.
I now provide consultation services from the comfort of your home.
“When you choose Gail to coach you in the healthiest ways to lovingly respond to your newborn-to-college aged son or daughter, you choose to have the very best evidenced based parenting tips readily available.”
- Shirley Devol VanLieu, Ph.D. USC
“You have been such an incredible source of strength and support. Thank you for helping build my confidence when I had none. What you have done has supported me in my transition into motherhood, and also supported my husband, my mother as she transitions to a grandmother, and not just my baby, but all my future children.”
- Grateful Mother
"You are a model of success to be admired and imitated around the globe!"
- Bobbi Jo Lyman, PhD, Faculty Santa Barbara Graduate Institute