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Parenting Professionals

Parenting Professionals

The following professionals or associations have indicated that their work aligns with API's Eight Principles of Parenting in their profession. We do not endorse any of these professionals and encourage you to research them fully to ensure that they are the right fit for your family.

We welcome your application to be listed as a professional resource if you're a parenting professional or an organization that works with parents in alignment with API's Principles.

Canada

British Columbia

Jan Hunt

Area of specialty

Parent counseling, attachment parenting, child development

Vancouver Island BC
Canada

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Jan Hunt, B.A. Psychology, M.Sc. Counseling Psychology, is the Director of the Natural Child Project, an attachment parenting/unschooling counselor, and a member of the Board of Directors of the CSPCC (Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). She is also a member of the advisory boards of Holistic Moms Network, Child-Friendly Initiative, and Attachment Parenting International. Jan is the author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart and the bilingual children's picture book A Gift for Baby, and co-edited The Unschooling Unmanual with her always-unschooled son, Jason. Many of her articles are available online at The Natural Child.

 

Manitoba

Jennifer Stephen

Parenting Educator, Teacher

Area of specialty

AHPP Online Parenting Educator
Independent CAHPE
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Winnipeg MB
Canada

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Jennifer Stephen, BEd, BSc

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online

Winnipeg MB
Canada

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Nova Scotia

Pamela Kennedy

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

BA Family studies/ Psychology, Diploma-Social Service,
GGK Parent educator
Enhanced Home Visitor: prenatal- 3yrs
Bayers-Westwood Family Resource Center
Private Contractor
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Halifax NS
Canada

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Sandra White

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Wolfville NS
Canada

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Ontario

Ashley Pickett

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Oakville ON
Canada

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Bhakti Shah

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Brampton ON
Canada

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Brandie Hadfield

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Port Colborne ON
Canada

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Cayla Solomon

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Certified Sleep and Well Being Specialist
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Toronto ON
Canada

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Fahreen Jeshani

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached ath the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Mississauga ON
Canada

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Helena Soukup

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Toronto ON
Canada

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Laurie A. Couture

Author, Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist

Area of specialty

Attachment Parenting Older Children and Adolescents, Unschooling, Behavioral and Emotional Problems, Adoption, Autism Spectrum and Trauma

Newmarket ON
Canada

Contact

Phone: 603 501-8257

Melanie Drew

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Stevensville ON
Canada

Contact

Morgan Fancy, MA, RP

Counselor/ Social Worker/ Therapist, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Counseling, Parenting Educator

Fancy Therapy Services

Kitchener ON
Canada

Contact

Phone: 2268087291

Natasha Walsh

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

AHPP Online Parenting Educator
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Toronto ON
Canada

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Taryn Patton

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Orangeville ON
Canada

Contact

Phone: 519-216-4037
Chile

Maule

Carolina Fuentes Avendaño

Parenting Educator

Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Parral
Maule
Chile

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Paola Neira Duran

Parenting Educator

Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Linares
Maule
Chile

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Metropolitana de Santiago

Dorian Christian Tobar Flores

Parenting Educator

Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Santiago
Región Metropolitana
Chile

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Karen Espinosa

Parenting Educator

Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Santiago
Región Metropolitana
Chile

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Colombia

Antioquia

Ivonne Quiroga

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Therapist focused on healing wounded childhood
Family advisor on conscious parenting and alternative education (home education)
Founder of Homeschooling Antioquia - Colombia
Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Medellín, ANT
Colombia

Contact

Offering parent coaching, parenting classes, workshops and other speaking engagements.

Online classes available.

 

Whatsapp: wa.me/573176367499

Cyprus

Leonidas Erakleous, MA

Parenting Educator, Psychologist

Area of specialty

Licensed Counselling Psychologist, with many years of experience working with children, adolescences and families. He provides individual counselling with children/adolescence, and adults. Runs programs in helping and supporting teens at risk for emotional and behavioral problems. He runs parenting groups in the positive discipline approach. Provides consultation and guidance to parents or caregivers of young or old children based on the attachment parenting principles and practices.

Limassol
Cyprus

Contact

Phone: +357 99669173
France

Elise Armoiry, Pharm D, IBCLC

Babywearing Consultant, IBCLC, Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online, Lactation Consultant, Babywearing educator
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

My Baby Moon Consultante

6 rue de la martinique
Lyon
France

Contact

Mybbmoon@gmail.com
Phone: 07.49.50.67.82

Breastfeeding and parenting support

Germany

Songül Çolakoğlu

Parenting Educator, Psychologist

Area of specialty

Counseling, Parenting Educator
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Köln/Cologne
Germany

Contact

Phone: +905334777122

Zeynep E. Okur-Güney

Parenting Educator

Area of specialty

AHPP Online Parenting Educator
Independent CAHPE
Certified Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (CAHPE)

Groß-Gerau
Germany

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