Tina Feigal is a former school psychologist and mother of three grown sons. She has experience as a childbirth educator, a university instructor and a children's services coordinator. Ms. Feigal coordinates the Parent Coaching Certificate Series at the Adler Graduate School .

Through her work in schools Ms. Feigal discovered that truly effective approaches to children's challenging behaviors were scarce and began looking for techniques that worked. Her search ended when she discovered Tucson family therapist Howard Glasser's Nurtured Heart Approach , which propelled her into a new career. She founded the Center for the Challenging Child, LLC, and now uses her passion to serve intense children and the adults in their lives and facilitates dramatic behavior improvement in those children.

Ms. Feigal has added and employs techniques to the Nurtured Heart Approach which she calls Present-Moment Parenting and Present-Moment Teaching . "Both are designed to help parents and teachers," she says, "so they are able to be on the same page with child behavior methods."

In addition to providing phone and e-mail coaching for parents and professionals, Ms. Feigal presents in-service programs at schools and non-profit agencies. She is also the editor of Nurturing News , a free e-newsletter that provides information, inspiration and support for parents and professionals.

Ms. Feigal is the KARE 11 TV's (NBC affiliate) resident parent coach. She offers on-screen parenting tips, conducts an online forum for parents for the KARE about Kids program and provides online video interviews.

Publications:

The Pocket Parent Coach: Your Two-Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Life with Your Intense Child

The Pocket Teacher Coach: Your Two Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Experience with Your Intense Student: Early Childhood as well as the Grades 1-6 version which guide parents and professionals through application of these techniques in a step-by-step process.

CD's:

Healing Your Challenging Child: Remembering the Love - a guided imagery CD to help parents reconnect with the positive feelings they once had for their child.

60 Minutes with Parent Coach Tina Feigal - an audio CD recorded in a casual, live coaching session with a mother of three. The CD illustrates the most important points of Ms. Feigal's philosophy and the advice she offers to parents.

Contact Information:
For more about the Center for the Challenging Child visit:
www.nurturedheart.com or call Tina Feigal at 612-721-0217.

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