Cara Pollard, PCI Certified Parent Coach®, has built a coaching practice based on her SPIRAL Method©, a discipline she employs with organizations and individual parents. With a team of trained coaches to expand her teachings, Cara Pollard Coaching creates the scaffolding individuals need to meet the demands and complexities of modern day.

Based in Chicago, Cara Pollard Coaching serves clients nationwide.

Cara Pollard offers coaching services to families, couples, women, and teens. Cara transforms lives by drawing upon her depth and breadth of background within her legal and academic experience. She is a lifelong learner with regards to the theories related to early childhood development.

She listens deeply and compassionately to her clients and then provides specific suggestions to implement new attitudes and strategies for moving forward toward their preferred future. Her coaching has provided life-changing results and enhances each person’s and family’s journey by bringing joy, enthusiasm, love and laughter to their world.

What Parents Say After Coaching With Me

Cara worked with me, remotely, every Tuesday at noon PST—me in San Francisco, she in Chicago—as I recapped the week’s events. Cara created a scaffolding to help me regain a foundation where trust, compassion, and listening were paramount in reestablishing boundaries and openness with my daughter. Each week, Cara would ask me to think deeply about how I wanted to proceed and to keep notes and lists on what I felt and how I could apply what we had discussed. Her thoughtful approach made me count the minutes each week until we arrived at noon on Tuesday, PST, so that I could gain more insight on how to handle the dynamics of parenting.
Susan Jackson
WordPress Developer
San Francisco, California
Coached Individually
I cannot tell you how much being a part of a group led by Cara has changed my life! I had never experienced working with a parent coach or knew much about it, but am so grateful to now have Cara as a resource through this most important journey. Her extensive background, training, and knowledge provide a world of insight for all various aspects of parenting. Through her and the group, I have made other valuable connections and friendships, and I have been introduced to a variety of authors, speakers, ideas, educators, and other professionals. I feel like my tribe has grown tenfold, and am thus much more comfortable and confident as I embark on this crazy chapter of my life. My children are very young, so at first I wasn't sure I would gain as much from the group as those with older children, but it was just the opposite. I always felt one step ahead having been introduced to topics forthcoming such as sibling rivalry, screentime, homework, discipline, etc. I hope that every parent can find a space and confidant like I have, and if you are still looking, Cara is simply outstanding.
Bess Walker
Parent Support Group Participant
Chicago, Illinois
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