Let Us Introduce Ourselves

Background:

Our experience includes counseling teenagers and their parents, social services, mediation and grief counseling.

In addition, we bring the wisdom and skills acquired in the process of raising our children and step-children.

Work with teenagers:

In 1997, we created an effective program for troubled teenagers in Asheville, NC.

Through our “Smart Choices” Program, we worked with several hundred teens and their parents. With group sessions, one-on-one counseling and family mediations, we empowered the teens to create successful lives and helped families to communicate more effectively.

Through that work, we came to realize that, in order to help children and teens, the most important thing we can do is to help parents learn to interact with their children in a more effective way.

It became clear to us that, with all the information available for parents, they were not being taught one essential key to successful relationships. That key is the ability to control their own emotional energy and to use it effectively in all their interactions with their children.

In order to share that skill with as many parents as possible, we wrote the e-book,

In the book, we teach parents and grandparents how to tap into the powerful resources within them to turn conflict into harmony and to create peaceful, cooperative, loving relationships with their children that meet the needs of everyone in the family.

To learn more about the book, click on this link:

We invite you to join us on this journey. For more information, please read our Vision and Mission, to see if they harmonize with your own.

From our hearts,

Pat and Larry Downing