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PARENT SUPPORT

Using connection as your superpower

to navigate every challenging moment &

raising joyful, resilient children

Parent Mentoring Courses

Nurturing the relationship that nature gave us, as our greatest power to parent.

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Parents Arrive here for many reasons

  • Unsure how to respond to or understand their child’s behaviour
  • Stuck in patterns of tantrums & power struggles
  • Stuck between wanting to be kind and needing boundaries
  • Reacting quickly in stressful moments, then wishing you had responded differently
  • Finding it hard to stay connected when things get difficult
  • Even the ordinary moments feel challenging

  • Unhelpful patterns from your upbringing coming into your parenting

  • Parents aligning on approach

A Relationship-Led Approach

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Beneath Behaviour

Behaviour is a child's earliest and most honest language.

Long before they have the words, children express what they feel through what they do.

Our children are always trying to tell us something through behaviour.

Understanding what may be beneath behaviour helps us make sense of what our child is experiencing.

Connected Communication

Children are always listening, not always with their ears.

They are deeply attuned to our tone, body language, and emotional presence, often responding to these before our words even land.

Learning to speak this shared language reduces conflict, builds resilience, and helps your child understand themselves.
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Rooted In Relationship

A child’s felt sense of safety and connection with those closest to them helps shape how a childs nervous system responds.

How they learn to manage difficult feelings, and how they come to understand themselves.

Relationship is the ground on which emotional resilience, regulation, and self-understanding grow.
Fiona Burke Parenting Support Galway

About Fiona

I’m a Relationship Mentor based in Galway, specialising in the parent–child relationship, working with parents of children up to 12.

My approach is relational & practical, supporting you to understand your child’s behaviour and respond in ways that positively influence behaviour while strengthening the relationship between you.

So there’s less conflict, power struggles, defensive resistance while reducing repeated patterns & developing supportive ways to handle what’s happening in the moment.

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Ways to Work Together

1:1 Mentoring

Online or In Person (East of Galway City)

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Parent Mentoring Courses

In Person & Online Options
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Self Paced

Coming Soon
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Parent Mentoring Courses

Rooted - Relational Parenting Programme


Online - starts October 12th

€80

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Parents Plus ADHD Programme

September 2026 - FULL

January 2027 - registration open

Available privately 1:1 - reach out here for further information.

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If your unsure where to start

book a free discovery call

This call is an opportunity to meet each other, get questions answered and discuss your needs.

What changes if nothing changes?

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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe