Coaching Services for Foster and Adoptive Parents!

• Are you overwhelmed by the needs of a child in your care?

• Are you wondering if you can handle a placement long-term?

• Does something have to give or your family is going to suffer?

Coaching Services are also available for all types of families, especially those struggling with big, baffling behaviors.

Don't know where to turn? Mending Hearts Coaching can help!

It's okay to not know what to do next. Parenting kids affected by trauma or living with neurodivergence is one of the hardest (yet rewarding) jobs on the planet.

Let us help your family! Together, we will create a plan together with strategies to help move your child and your family forward toward health and healing rather than frustration and chaos.

Services include group coaching, individual coaching and retreats/workshops for foster and adoptive families, blended families, families with neurodiverse children, and any other family struggling to figure out how to help their child thrive.

Email Melissa Smallwood today at melissa@mendingheartscoaching.com for more information or to set up your free 15 minute consultation!

Complete the form below to request a coaching appointment!

 Melissa Smallwood has a passion to help parents who are in the trenches of raising kids with a trauma history. As the mom of seven kids, five who are adopted and most of whom spent time in foster care, Melissa is familiar with the challenges these families can face. Her personal passion, combined with personal experience as a former foster youth, an educational and professional counseling background and a heart for every child to have a forever family, Melissa is uniquely qualified to coach foster and adoptive families through any struggles they may be experiencing.As the head coach at Mending Hearts Coaching, Melissa helps clients identify the short and long term goals they have for their struggling child and for their entire family. She then helps them develop plans to implement those strategies in order to bring hope and healing to families who feel overwhelmed and alone.

Melissa and her husband, Mike, have seven kids ranging from the age of 31-17 and five precious grandbabies. They live in wild and wonderful WV and are currently in the process of renovating a river house. In addition to her passion for families, Melissa also feels quite passionate about coffee, HGTV, mangoes and Jesus (although not in that order).In addition to coaching foster and adoptive families, Melissa keeps busy with her day job as a counselor, teaching PRIDE classes to potential foster parents, writing and speaking.You can contact Melissa via email at kmelissasmallwood@gmail.com if you have a specific question, prayer request or need. You can also find her on Twitter , Facebook, Instagram (a lot) and Pinterest. Visit her speaking/teaching page for details about seminars and workshops she provides as well as other aspects of her online ministry for foster/adoptive moms.