Nicole Lako, LMFT is excited to facilitate workshops for expectant and “new” parents called Bringing Baby Home (BBH), a Gottman Institute program. Nicole is a certified BBH educator and currently offers this workshop ONLINE to expecting couples and parents or guardians of babies and young children.
BBH is a research-based workshop that teaches couples skills to navigate their relationship and support around what to expect with baby! It is a dyadic workshop, meaning you engage with your partner in all activities to practice and gain new skills and tools.
This workshop is 12+ hours of content, supporting a couple’s relationship, their communication, their conflict management skills and educating about what to expect with baby’s development. The research supporting the interventions offered in this workshop are solid, from years of longitudinal research at Gottman Institute following new parents! The research supports that this workshop offers couples specific skills to maintain a higher level of relationship satisfaction after becoming parents. Parents will learn research-based skills that strengthen their relationship, as well as, support a newborn baby’s development during this wonderfully challenging time. Here are some examples:
- Strengthen your couple and parenting relationship
- Improve couple communication
- Navigate conflict
- Learn how to connect as a couple and family
- Recognize emotions in baby and what baby is communicating
- How to keep intimacy and passion going post-baby’s birth
- How to cope with baby blues and identify post partum depression
- Explore the important roles of mothers and fathers
Watch this brief video with Dr. Gottman discussing the BBH program here: https://youtu.be/e_hNCHEmB-o
Please visit my coaching website to register for a one on one package or contact Nicole at happycoupleafterbaby@gmail.com about workshop options.
