Kristen Balhoff
Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor
Parent Educator
Hello and Welcome!
Hi! There you are. I'm so glad you're here. I'm Kristen Balhoff, and I can share with you what I've learned about parenting with Conscious Discipline®. Let's journey together!
Parenting Goals
Learn the adult-first approach of Conscious Discipline®
Focus on relationship
Build on your child's strengths
Teach self-regulation and other missing skills
Help solve problems
"I believe Parenting is a journey. We're all learning and then practicing what we learn."
Safety
Connection
Problem Solving
Who is Kristen?
Kristen’s enthusiastic insight as a Parent Educator originates from her own journey as the parent of three amazing neurodivergent children. Her engaging workshops include relatable, heart-warming stories of the many ways that Conscious Discipline® has transformed her family’s ability to connect together and build on their strengths to strive for their potential.
Let's Play
As a retired camp counselor, Kristen loves to incorporate humor, games, singing, and riddles into all of her workshops.
Find a Way
Kristen teaches others how to create authentic connections and how to best support those children hesitant to enter new relationships, with adult-led creativity, playfulness, persistence, and innovative strategies that yield transformational results.
We've Got This!
Kristen offers energetic optimism to inspire parents to go deeper in their own journey of Conscious Discipline®. She invites steady progress with hopeful encouragement.
Kristen encourages an affirming approach of parenting that honors each child’s individual developmental timeline. She loves to help parents make everything more concrete, predictable, and sensory-aware while incorporating each child’s special interests. She also believes that in all situations… there’s a visual aid for that!
Kristen delights in collaborating with all families, and she specializes in supporting families with social differences, executive-function challenges, neurodivergence, or anxiety. She teaches families how to increase their sense of safety and to adopt intentional practices to strengthen connection.
