Serving Marin County & Beyond
The Families Who Start Early Feel the Difference the Most
Grounded in decades of direct work with neurodiverse families — and the PAUSE People Coaching framework built alongside that experience — this work starts from a simple truth:
Kids don't learn self-regulation from instructions — they need to see it, feel it, and practice it in real time, with the adults who matter most. While it's never too late, the window before age 12 holds strong potential to build self-regulation skills that echo through a child’s life. We call it the Legacy Window. When challenges surface formally in the tween and teen years, families often find themselves navigating more stress, tighter schedules, higher stakes, and sometimes greater resistance — all at once.
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Fixing the child is the default, but it's not the recommendation. Tutors, therapies, medication — despite CDC and AAP guidelines, parent behavior training is almost never the first thing families are offered.
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Screens are doing quiet damage. Digital overload is eroding kids' capacity for self-regulation while most parents are left without the tools to respond.
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Nobody's failing. What families need isn't more information — it's expert guidance, a clear framework, and real-time support.
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That's why this work exists.​
Find the Right Starting Point
Now What?
Just received an evaluation or diagnosis and not sure what to do with it? This focused 1-hour session turns the report into a real direction — with concrete actions you can take this week.​​​
Family Blueprint
Parents, your child, and Dan — separately and together. You leave with shared meaning, a common language, strategies for the moments that keep going sideways, and a Blueprint the whole family can use. Three hours and the whole family in the same story.
Co-Parenting Blueprint​
Two households. One child. For divorced and co-parenting families who want more consistency across both homes — without requiring a perfect co-parenting relationship to start. A structured two-session engagement with a written shared framework delivered within 48 hours.
PAUSE at Home
For moms, dads, guardians, co-parents, and divorced families ready to understand what’s actually happening at home — and make the kind of shifts their family can feel. Built on the PAUSE People System, on-demand, and available when real life calls for it.
For Fathers: Grateful Dads​
A dad-centered coaching program built specifically for fathers navigating ADHD at home — with on-demand 1:1 support and a monthly pizza party community in Larkspur -next Pizza meet-up in September, 2026.
One person who sees the whole picture.
Most families are patching things together — a therapist, a tutor, a coach somewhere else. Nobody has the full view. After 30 years working across every layer of a child's world, I do. What's happening at school, what's breaking down at home, what the evaluation actually means, what your child needs to grow — I see all of it at once.
“Dan really helps me understand my son in a different way and empowers me as a parent to help him in ways where I previously felt more helpless.”
— Julie P., 2025
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“Your approach has everything I had hoped for — substance, experience, actionable handouts, and a good dose of humor and compassion.”
— Boriana, Switzerland, 2025