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Digital Parenting Strategies

Digital parenting strategies are the practices that help kids thrive alongside screens without making your home a battlefield. Coaches help you co-create media plans, lead with curiosity instead of correction, model the tech relationship you want them to learn, and reframe the fight as game design vs willpower. Offline.now connects you with digital parenting therapists and coaches.

Erica Fortescue

Sherry Heathcote

Executive Function Coach

Lollie Weeks

Carrie Bonnett

Executive Function Coach

Rose Thorne

Executive Function Coach

Jen Hanson

Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Margreet Adriani

Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Camil Aponte

Mary Smith

Executive Function Coach

Vida Carey

Digital Parenting Strategies

Pauline Saavedra

Executive Function Coach

Michelle Gross

Board Certified Coach (BCC)

Sarah Nunziata

Canadian Certified Addiction Counsellor (CCAC)

Mandy Hasslen

Melissa Bildner

Executive Function Coach

Sally Linton

Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Debby Anderson

Susan Ciambriello

Jessel Newton

Executive Function Coach

Simal Saujani

Registered Psychotherapist (RP)

Spring Berriman

Registered Psychotherapist (RP)

Lyndsey Callihan

Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)

Emma Habibi

Registered Psychotherapist – Qualifying (RP-Q)

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