Illinois

Vicki has a passion for empowering parents to create positive, healthy environments for themselves and their children and at the same time stay true to their own values and dreams. She is wholly committed to provide parents with the support and skills they need to realize their dreams for their family! Vicki's passion for families led her to becoming both a licensed professional counselor and most recently a PCI Certified Parent Coach®.

Vicki is a mother of three, ages eight, ten, and twelve. She comes to each coaching session, not merely as a parenting professional, but as a mom, who has experienced the pressures, worries, guilt, and, most importantly, joys that every parent experiences. Vicki lives with her husband, three children, two senior cats, and two dogs in a southwest suburb of Chicago.

Sheryl Stoller helps parents integrate proven, research-based approaches and practical parenting tools with their own insights, values, and dreams to nurture and empower their children. Parents develop life-long habits of effective parenting. They gain self-confidence, equilibrium—and the joy of parenting well.

Sheryl works with parents of children of all ages, providing reliable, nonjudgmental, and caring support. She addresses a wide spectrum of issues that families experience at different developmental stages. Parents learn new strategies, including:

• preventing and addressing behavior and motivation challenges
• developing effective approaches when children and parents have different temperaments and communication styles
• overcoming obstacles faced by families when children have learning and developmental differences
• easing difficulties with transitions, big and small

Clients value Sheryl's knowledge, warmth, thoughtful questions, and insightful observations. Her own parenting journey—including the challenges she and her husband experienced with their three children (sons 21, 19 and daughter 15) serves as a source of inspiration and hope for clients.

Training and Experience

Sheryl maintains an active private practice, coaching parents one-on-one and as couples. She also leads interactive workshops for many types of establishments, customizing content to fit their needs. Her experience includes:

• Graduate program through The Parent Coaching Institute
• Ongoing accredited seminars and readings
• Committee member of the Healthy Beginnings II Initiative of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
• Chicago Parent magazine expert opinion
• Upcoming: Speaker for a hospital's occupational therapy department, a panelist for forum on effective parenting, and guest on Chicago NBC's weekend morning news

Whether you are considering private coaching (either by phone or in person) or workshops, Sheryl is happy to talk with you and put you in touch with clients as references. Call or email her directly at sheryl@stollerparentcoaching.com (708) 358-8289, (877) 285-8289

Angie Poulos is a mother, an educator and a friend to parents. She and her husband have raised six children, ages 20–40 years old. They also enjoy spending lots of time with their six grandchildren. Having raised a son with developmental disabilities, Angie understands, from an intimate perspective, special needs children and the added stress this can bring to the family. Angie is certified by the American Montessori Society with 28 years of teaching experience. She has worked with hundreds of children and with their parents through parent education workshops. During her teaching career, Angie helped many children deal with learning challenges and behavior issues. Her knowledge and her patience with these children has earned her a respected reputation and special place in the hearts of many families.

The PCI model of parent coaching is Angie's "true calling." She is dedicated to helping each child reach his/her highest potential by supporting parents through close parent-coach relationships. Her experience and education forms the solid base needed in guiding parents to realize the developmental, emotional, spiritual, and social needs of their children. She focuses on building confidence, concentration, and social skills by teaching parents to be good observers and by investing time in creating a healthy environment for their children.

Angie is skilled at building strong, trusting, productive relationships with her clients.

Angie offers companionship to the new mom, good humor and creative ideas to the "on the go" parents of grade school age children, moral support, compassion and clarity to the high school parents and wisdom and hope to the parents of young adults.

Angie will lead you to feel energized, empowered, and excited to have the most challenging, most important and most satisfying job that exists, parenting.