ABOUT STACEY

The best parenting coaches don't just know the research — they know what it feels like when the research isn't working.

There's a difference between knowing the theory and sitting with a parent who's been awake since 3am, dreading the imminent school refusal, the aggression and the meltdown over the toast being too toasty. 

What most people don't know is that Stacey's relationship with child development began long before coaching existed as a profession. While at UC Irvine, she worked in child behaviour research and taught at the school's childcare center. Post graduate (after a quick stop in Hollywood to decide she wasn't meant to be an actress) she went on to work at PCC/Zonta Children's Services in Palo Alto, a specialist organisation serving children with autism, and as a program counselor for abused and neglected children. She was working with the hardest cases in child development while offering parent coaching (long before she was a parent herself).

Raised in Silicon Valley, CA it is a prerequisite that at some point you dabble in tech (kidding...kind of) so she worked in training and development. She spent 16 years as the director building a top national brand whie she married and started her family. In her spare time, she continued studying behavioural psychology, became certified in Applied Positive Psychology, and then studied directly with Dr. Shefali Tsabary to be certified in The Conscious Parenting Method. 

While navigating her first son's ADHD and learning  disability diagnoses (later also diagnosed with Autism) Stacey saw the need to bring together her unique mix of positive psychology, conscious parenting and lived experience to bring together a support group for parents. For over a decade she has been in the trenches facilitating support groups for parents navigating the hardest parts of raising neurodiverse kids: The school refusal. The food battles. The sleep struggles. The hygiene standoffs. The social rejection that break your heart. The aggression that scares you. The moments when you quietly think you don't even like your child (yes, it's been said). She knows these conversations intimately. Not just from research, but from showing up week after week and helping parents know and do better for their children. 

Those early days of a living room support group have evolved into something Stacey never quite planned: The ND Parenting Lab; an international live coaching membership for parents of neurodiverse children. Three weekly live calls, a WhatsApp community, and a growing resource library. It's warm, but it's not soft. The parents inside have tried everything. They're not looking for reassurance, they're looking for something that actually works for their specific child. The Lab is where that happens, live, every week. Real change in real time.

Today, Stacey is an international bestselling author of the book Conscious Parenting Your ADHD Child and one of the most trusted voices in conscious parenting for neurodiverse families. Her work began with one-minute videos and grew into a podcast, masterclasses, speaking engagements and five internationally published books, including , Ignite Your Parenting, and Ignite Your Happiness. 

In 2020, she left Silicon Valley and hasn't looked back. She and her husband Barry now worldschool their now teen boys, Dashiel (AuDHD/anxiety/PDA) and Declan (neurotypical) across the globe (15+ countries and counting) currently splitting time between California and Scotland. Living proof that when you stop white-knuckling parenthood and start working with your child's brain instead of against it, everything shifts.

If you're tired of strategies that work for other kids but not yours — you're in the right place.