Parent Coaching & Family Support

(Available in English and French / Disponible en anglais et en français)

Because Parenting Was Never Meant to Be Done Alone

Parenting brings both deep love and complex challenges.
At Clinic Altera, we offer solution-focused parent coaching designed to help individuals, couples, and families feel more connected, capable, and grounded.

Our approach is systemic, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive, recognizing that every family system has its own rhythms, histories, and strengths. We help you make sense of these dynamics and build practical, compassionate strategies for daily life.

What Parent Coaching Involves

Parent coaching at Altera provides focused, short-term, and action-oriented support. Together, we:

• Establish realistic and concrete objectives for family harmony and child wellbeing.

• Use impactful techniques, symbolic exercises, and practical tools that strengthen communication and cooperation.

• Explore family patterns and connect you with your inner strengths and resources.

• Identify barriers to connection or calm, and develop new ways of relating that honor everyone’s needs.

This is a collaborative and empowering process — not about perfection, but about presence, attunement, and growth.

Our Systemic and Family-Centered Approach

At Clinic Altera, we view each family as an interconnected unit. When one person changes, the whole system shifts.
Our clinicians use a systemic lens to help families understand patterns of interaction, attachment, and regulation. We look at how stress, culture, transitions, and developmental stages shape behaviors, and we help families create new patterns rooted in understanding, respect, and empathy.

Specialized Support Areas

Perinatal and Postnatal Coaching

Parenthood begins long before birth — and continues to evolve with each stage.
Our clinicians support parents and caregivers through the perinatal and postnatal periods, offering guidance and emotional support as they navigate:

• Role and identity transitions related to family growth

• Division of household and caregiving tasks

• Coping strategies for lack of sleep and overwhelm

• Emotional regulation and communication between partners

• Support for postpartum depression, anxiety, and adjustment

This type of coaching is ideal for families seeking preventative, early, and compassionate support that addresses both the emotional and practical realities of new parenthood.

Intercultural Co-Parenting Coaching

In multicultural families, parenting can sometimes bring unique joys and challenges.
Our intercultural co-parenting coaching helps parents explore and integrate different cultural values, parenting practices, and communication styles, supporting a balanced, inclusive family culture.

We help families:

• Identify and address obstacles arising from differing cultural expectations

• Strengthen mutual understanding and empathy

• Develop shared values and collaborative solutions

• Foster connection and harmony within the family unit

This service is particularly well-suited for binational couples, immigrant families, or families navigating blended cultural identities.

Why Families Choose Clinic Altera

Our parent coaching is:

• Private and confidential: offered by licensed clinicians in a warm, supportive space.

• Personalized and detailed: every plan is adapted to your family’s unique circumstances.

• Practical and impactful: combines evidence-based techniques with symbolic, reflective tools.

• Systemic and trauma-informed: respects family history, nervous system patterns, and intergenerational stories.

• Multicultural and inclusive: recognizes how identity, culture, and context shape family life.

• Accessible and flexible: available in-person in Montreal and virtually across Quebec, Ontario, and Virtually from Anywhere

Getting Started

To begin, you can book a free 15-minute consultation with one of our clinicians to discuss your family’s goals and explore how parent coaching can support you.

At the Heart of It

Parent coaching at Clinic Altera is not about control or correction — it’s about connection.
We help families move from frustration to understanding, from reaction to reflection, and from survival to growth.

Because when a family feels seen and supported, healing becomes possible for everyone.

Meet Nadina Ramessar, M.S.W. — Psychosocial Support Supervisor & Parent Coaching Lead at Clinic Altera

We’re so excited to introduce Nadina Ramessar, our Social Worker Extraordinaire and Parent Coaching Lead here at Clinic Altera.

With over 15 years of experience in Quebec’s public health and social service sectors, Nadina brings a wealth of knowledge and deep compassion to her work with parents, caregivers, and families. Her background includes extensive practice in family systems, psychosocial intervention, and emotional regulation, all of which shape her calm, grounded approach to coaching and support.

At Altera, Nadina offers solution-focused parent coaching that helps families navigate the real-life complexities of parenting — from the early transitions of pregnancy and postpartum life, to co-parenting and intercultural communication, and through the various phases of childhood and adolescence, with all the joys and struggles that come with each stage.

Her work is practical, relational, and deeply human, supporting families in finding clarity, connection, and confidence in their unique rhythms.

Nadina’s approach is systemic and trauma-informed, meaning she sees the family as an interconnected whole. She helps parents strengthen communication, create new patterns of cooperation, and find resilience in moments of change. Whether she’s supporting new parents through sleepless nights or helping partners bridge cultural perspectives, or forming new connections with adolescents and their caregivers, Nadina brings both structure and warmth to every session.