Tina Feigal
M.S., Ed.
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Present Moment Parenting Expert

Tina Feigal Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Coaching parents on children's challenging behavior (all ages) and consulting with schools
- Best Sellers
- The Pocket Coach for Parents: Your Two-Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Life with Your Intense Child
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Coach, Trainerof New Parent Coaches
- Affiliation
- Center for the Challenging Child, LLC
Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed. is a former school psychologist who offers coaching in Present Moment Parenting. Tina considers herself a purveyor of hope … even for kids with extreme behaviors! She specializes in placing the healing of behavior directly into the hands of adults who care for the children. Empowerment of parents, teachers, and child care providers is Tina’s passion ... she brings out the best in adults, so they can bring out the best in children. Tina is the founder of the Center for the Challenging Child, LLC, where she shares highly successful techniques to transform challenging behavior in children of all ages. Her book, The Pocket Parent Coach: Your Two-Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Life with Your Intense Child which includes the CD, “60 Minutes with Parent Coach Tina Feigal” has earned five-star reviews on amazon.com.
Tina has been featured as NBC affiliate KARE 11 TV’s resident parent coach in Minneapolis/St. Paul. She has also been featured on WCCO TV and WCCO radio in the Twin Cities, along with FM107 radio. Tina has appeared on Sioux Falls, SD’s KELO TV and on Twin Cities metro cable TV stations. She speaks regularly for a wide variety of conferences, school, community education, church, and service organizations, including Prevent Child Abuse America, Miracle Distribution Center, MN School Counselors’ Association, and MN Association for Children’s Mental Health.
Tina also schedules independent trainings which are open to the public throughout the U.S. Tina is a faculty member at Adler Graduate School in Richfield, MN, where she trains future parent coaches. Tina’s web site is www.nurturedheart.com.
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What Is Parent Coaching?
Parent Coaching Defined and Described As a parent coach and former school psychologist, I provide personalized parent education to parents whose children have issues with behavior. Rather than doing therapy, where the parent needs a diagnosis to get help, I teach him or her (or both, ideally) ...
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Transforming The Challenging Bedtime
Among the parents I coach, I find that that one near-universal issue arises at some point in the coaching process: How do we take the pain out of bedtime? Here are some real solutions to this often-frustrating everyday issue. Set up a family meeting. Using the same approach that you would with ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Tina Feigal
The best medicine for any child is an inspired, skilled, compassionate parent. The next best medicine is the parents and teachers being on the same page with "experience management" for the child.
Contacting Tina Feigal
Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed.
Center for the Challenging Child, LLC
http://parentingmojo.com for parent coaching and speaking to groups
http://www.parentingcoachtraining.com for coach certification including CEUs
651-453-0123
How to get started
Visit my web sites, www.parentingmojo.com and parentingcoachtraining.com. Read my book, The Pocket Coach for Parents: Your Two-Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Life with Your Intense Child, which comes with a CD, "60 Minutes with Parent Coach Tina Feigal."
Give me a call at 651-453-0123 to set up a personal phone coaching appointment from anywhere in the English-speaking world. I also train others to be parent coaches, so if you are a professional with a bachelor's degree in a child-related field, I am happy to train you to start in this exciting new career!
Other highlights
I offer speaking for groups of all kinds, including educators, child care providers, health professionals, and parents. Also check out my parent coach training at http://www.parentingcoachtraining.com. If you've always dreamed of being a parent coach, you can be certified by teleconference from the comfort of your own home!