Is Your Child Feeling Anxious or Overwhelmed?
Understand your child's nervous system, your own responses, and how to support them.A Seven Module Course for Parents and Carers
Nervous System Regulation Course for Parents & Carers
When your child is anxious or overwhelmed, it can be difficult to know what to do. Understanding what is happening beneath their behaviour can help — but so can understanding what is happening in your own nervous system. This seven-module course brings the two together.
You’ll learn how the nervous system influences your child’s emotions and behaviour, your own responses, and the connection between you. You’ll also discover practical ways to develop greater regulation and capacity, so you have more choice in how you respond when things become difficult.
The aim isn’t to keep your child calm or to become a perfectly calm parent. It’s to understand what is happening beneath the surface, so you can meet difficult moments with greater awareness, connection and choice.
Each module is 15-20 minutes, pre-recorded, and available to watch whenever suits you, in your own time.
Only £29 for the full seven-module programme.
What The 7 Modules Look Like
Each module explores a different piece of the puzzle, gradually building your understanding of yourself, your nervous system and your child.
Module 1 — Begin by understanding your own nervous system, how stress can affect the way you think and respond, and the foundations for developing greater regulation and capacity.
Module 2 — Understand what happens in your body during and after stressful experiences, and why you or your child can sometimes react to pressure without consciously choosing how to respond.
Module 3 — Look at the importance of connection in relationships and how our own state can influence the way we meet our children during difficult moments.
Module 4 — Explore how thoughts and attention can amplify anxiety and overwhelm, and learn ways of creating more space around thoughts that can otherwise take over.
Module 5 — Discover how familiar patterns develop over time and what it means to begin creating new ones, with greater awareness of the signals coming from your body.
Module 6 — Turn your attention more deeply towards your body’s messages, developing a greater understanding of stress, capacity and the things that can influence how we respond.
Module 7 — Bonus Session — Supporting Your Child Through Anxiety: Understand how reassurance and avoidance can sometimes unintentionally reinforce anxiety, and learn practical ways to acknowledge your child's fear while helping them take manageable steps towards the things they are finding difficult.
Why This Matters at Home Too
What happens at home isn't just about your child's behaviour. It's also about what is happening in the relationship between you.
When your child becomes anxious, overwhelmed or distressed, your own nervous system can be affected too. You might feel worried, frustrated, helpless or unsure what to do. That's completely understandable.
Learning to recognise what's happening in yourself and your child can give you more choice in how you respond.
You don't need to get it right every time. You don't need to stay calm all the time. And you don't need to fix your child.
Who Is This For?
This course is for parents and carers who want to better understand what is happening when their child becomes anxious, overwhelmed or emotionally distressed.
It may be particularly useful if you:
- Find yourself unsure how to respond when your child is struggling.
- Feel that reassurance doesn't always seem to help.
- Notice that your child's anxiety affects your own emotions and responses.
- Want to understand nervous system regulation in a practical, accessible way.
- Would like tools and understanding you can use at home.
Whatever your child's age, the course starts with the basics and builds gradually.
Why Is There a Small Fee?
The Calm Coach children's and staff programmes are completely free for UK schools, helping more children and education staff access practical nervous system education.
The £29 Parents & Carers course is a separate seven-module programme, created specifically for adults who want to understand their own nervous system, better understand their child and develop practical ways to support them at home.
£29 gives you access to the complete seven-module programme, including all of the sessions and resources.
Your purchase also helps support the free provision we offer to schools.
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