Emma Wolton

Parent Coach

Parenting from the Heart
Supporting your journey to greater self-awareness, emotional well-being and more joyful parenting.

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How I work

I teach a tool called the SafeSeat process, designed by psychotherapist and parent coach Leslie Potter. This practice helps you pause in challenging moments so you can respond consciously rather than react out of old patterns.I don’t offer advice or techniques for controlling behaviour. Instead, the SafeSeat is about turning toward yourself with love and acceptance. You know yourself and your child better than anyone and my role is simply to support you on your own path of self-discovery.In our sessions, I offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space where every part of you is welcome. Together, we explore the beliefs and triggers that shape your reactions, gently uncovering fear-based conditioning so you can meet yourself and your child with curiosity and kindness.This inner work takes practice, but over time it creates emotional safety, strengthens boundaries, and nurtures a more loving relationship with yourself and your child.

About me

From childhood, I longed to be a loving, gentle mother, but when my children didn’t behave as I’d imagined, I reacted in ways that felt out of control and deeply misaligned with the parent I wanted to be. Conscious parenting books helped, but I still didn’t trust myself and felt I was failing.Discovering the SafeSeat process changed everything. I learned that my reactions came from childhood beliefs and coping strategies, and that by feeling my emotions rather than avoiding them, I could become a safe base for myself and my children.This work transformed my parenting, my self-esteem and my life - so much so that I trained as a Parent Coach to support others on the same journey.Read more about how I use the SafeSeat practice in my own life in my Substack posts.

Prices

30 mins on zoom - free
This session gives us a chance to meet, explore what’s happening in your parenting, and discuss what you’re hoping to gain from coaching. You can ask any questions about how I work, and together we’ll see whether my coaching feels like the right fit for you.Individual session - £60
Individual sessions for you to explore your parenting issues. 1 hour on zoomParenting Paused Course - £380 - 8 weeks, 1 hour a week on zoom plus written material to support your practice. (Saving 20% compared to individual sessions)
In this set of 8 sessions we focus specifically on learning the SafeSeat process in depth, applying it to your personal, everyday situations with your child.
Each of the sessions will focus on a different aspect of the process, from recognising the 4 parts of an emotional trigger and understanding that thoughts and emotions drive behaviour, to learning how to offer yourself deep, deep kindness and say 'Yes!' to you!
I will guide you in embodying each step and will provide written material to support your learning in your own time as well as suggestions for practise in your daily life.Parenting Paused Group Course - £150 per person
8 weeks, 1 hour a week on zoom plus written material to support your practice.
The content for this group course is the same as for the 1:1 8 week course. Groups will be up to 6 people.Elevenses with Emma - free
For ongoing support or a chance to try out my coaching, join me for an online drop-in session for 1 hour on a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Contact me for the zoom link.For more information on any of my offers, please contact me.

What people say

"I will be forever grateful to Emma for taking me through the SafeSeat and unpicking my thoughts and feelings and connecting me to my inner child.
She has helped me understand myself and has joined the dots for me from my childhood to now.
I now understand why I parent the way I do and I can connect to my children with love and kindness with depth of self awareness I have never had before."
Heidi (Group 8wk course)"Emma’s coaching sessions have changed my life! With her calm, grounded energy, she creates a space that feels both safe and welcoming. Emma’s compassion and understanding make it easy to open up, and her insights have been invaluable in supporting me to approach parenting with more confidence and clarity.
By focusing on my relationship with myself, encouraging me to offer kindness and acceptance to my own experience, I have become more balanced and compassionate in my attitude to myself and my child, (and my husband!) I always feel heard, understood, and empowered by our sessions, and can’t recommend her highly enough!"
Maryrose (1:1 sessions)"I feel extremely grateful to have come across Emma. She has taught me the SafeSeat practise and over 8 sessions has held a safe space for me to explore my behavioural patterns in a non-judgemental and compassionate way, so that I now feel able to make simple yet profound changes in my life by continuing using the this practise. As a single parent I often felt stuck in my parenting, feeling insufficient and not enough, with feelings of guilt and judgement at my personal limitations. Following the 8 week program with Emma has helped me open to a more spacious place within myself, acceptance and kindness foremost to myself and with that towards my children and my parenting. I have learnt to first take notice of my own felt experience, take time to allow being with what is and then act from a place of choice in my behaviour. I have felt very safe and relaxed which allows for a playful soft transition into new behaviours. Emma offers a place to land, reflect, be seen and from here a gentle and honest way forward in relating to myself and my family. The SafeSeat method is simple yet radical and has opened a door for me to stand on more solid ground and act with compassion and kindness. I feel like I have learnt to be a parent to myself (at 50!!) and can now parent my children in an unfolding present way, that won't run me dry or keep hold of patterns that no longer serve me."
Naveen (1:1 8wk course)"Through the Parenting Paused course I now see life through a different lens. I found greater compassion for myself and my child. Emma helped me to celebrate my child for who he is and love myself."
Lucynda (1:1 8wk course)"The Safe Seat course has been revelatory for me! After just the third session, I had a breakthrough with a dynamic that has been getting me down for over a year! I can finally redefine and assert the type of caregiver I want to be today, in the here and now. Emma 'held' our group with such wisdom, gentleness and courage, sharing some of her own vulnerabilities, mirroring us but also reframing our perspectives in a way that was only ever empowering, never critical. Thanks for holding such a safe space for our Safe Seat process Emma!"
Danny (Group 8wk course)“Emma’s course was truly inspiring. The SafeSeat method has become a powerful tool we now use regularly, not just in parenting, but whenever emotions arise. The course was clear and accessible and Emma’s calm, open-hearted presence created a space where I felt safe to be vulnerable. I felt seen, heard and supported and the experience will stay with me.”
Sally (Group 8wk course)"Emma has a real gift for gently and empathetically probing. I felt like I was able to investigate my core beliefs in a way that felt really refreshing. My relationship with my children has improved because of this course. I am truly grateful to Emma for the positive influence she has had on my family."
Eliza (Group 8wk course)"Setting up my safe seat area at home has led me to reorganise lots of parts of my home to work for me and support my needs just as much as the rest of the family. I am able to put my needs on the priority list now where I had forgotten about looking after myself and being kind to myself for a long time. It's a really beautiful practice to take care of yourself and honour your needs just as much as everyone else."
Emma (Group 8wk course)

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