Welcome to the PCI Press Room

Gloria DeGaetano is the CEO and Founder of The Parent Coaching Institute. As the visionary behind our dynamic and growing organization and a nationally acclaimed educator, Gloria is a great resource for broadcast and print media in all areas of the parent coaching movement, media literacy and childhood development and creating and nurturing healthy children and families in our crazy and complex world.

While many of these subjects are very serious and provocative, Gloria brings a unique blend of humor and interpretation during an interview dialogue. Her unique communication style has the uncanny ability to engage viewers, listeners, and readers to better understand and comprehend new ideas, trends, and perspectives.

For Gloria's full bio, please click here.

To contact Gloria for a print or broadcast interview or guest appearance, please contact info@thepci.org

Selected Articles/Guest Appearances

An article in Newsweek's Tip Sheet published April 5, 2008, covers parent coaching, including the PCI and PCI grads Sally Kidder Davis and Cathy Adams.

January 11 2008, an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer discusses the benefits of parent coaching, and interviews PCI founder Gloria DeGaetano as well as PCI Certified Parent Coaches® Michelle Golingo, Sally Kidder Davis, and Jennifer Watanabe.

September 13, 2007, the Chicago Tribune interviews PCI Certified Parent Coach® Cathy Adams about her parent coaching practice. (Also republished in the Austin American-Statesman.)

July 3, 2007, an article in The Boston Globe outlines the growing profession of parent coaching and highlights the PCI as the only program certifying parent coaches.

March 30, 2006, Gloria DeGaetano appeared on NBC's Today show discussing the topic of DVDs for young children.

March 2006, the PCI and PCI Parent Coach, Jen Wolf, were featured on an IParenting Site article.

February 23, 2006, Karen Bierdeman, PCI Certified Parent Coach® from Olympia, WA and one of her clients were featured in a TV segment for KOMO News. You can read the text portion here.

January 15, 2006, the PCI was featured in an article in the Sunday section of the King County Journal . A Photo of Gloria speaking was featured on the cover and Debbie Weidner, PCI Parent Coach from Woodinville, Washington, and one of her clients were also featured.

November 2005, Los Angeles PCI student Deborah Stambler appeared on Channel 7 for an ABC news segment, featuring PCI parent coaching with one of Deborah's clients.

September 2005, "Introducing the Parent Coach," Colorado Pike's Peak Parent featured PCI Certified Parent Coach® and Course Instructor Michelle Strickland and the Parent Coaching Institute training model.

September 2005, Positive Thinking Magazine, featuring Gloria DeGaetano as the selected parent coach from the U. S. interviewed on the power of coaching to help stay positive.

Fall, 2005, "Positively Parenting: How a Coach Can Help You Get a First Class Family," Christian Parenting Today, interview with Jen Mangan, PCI Certified Parent Coach® http://www.christianitytoday.com/cpt/2005/003/18.36.html

August 30, 2005, "Life Coaching, Experts Sought for Guidance in Professional, Personal Lives," San Joaquin County Record, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coach® Linda Moscovic.

June 19, 2005, "Parent Potential: Parent Coach Raelee Pierce helps mothers find fulfillment and their own answers to child-rearing questions," The Chapel Hill News, featuring PCI Parent coach in training, Raelee Pierce.

May 25, 2005, Gloria DeGaetano and PCI Certified Parent Coach® Rachel Eden and one of her clients interviewed for American Public Media's Marketplace, discussing the many benefits of PCI Parent Coaching.

April 7, 2005, The Oregonian, featuring Wilsonville, Oregon PCI coach, Kathy Luiten-Goodwin: "Coaches help mom, dad, see "big picture" in parenting."

March, 2005, Telegraph.co.uk:
"Need Parenting Help? Call Your Coach"

March, 2005, The New York Times, "With Mayhem at Home, They Call a Parent Coach."

March, 2005, Gloria DeGaetano interviewed on Wisconsin NPR.

February, 2005, Ladies Home Journal, "Family Matters."

February, 2005, Redbook, "Give Yourself an Instant Confidence Boost."

January, 12, 2005, The Bainbridge Review, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coaches Sally Kidder Davis, Mary Scribner, Chris Christensen, and Rachel Eden, "Even Parents Can Use a Little Coaching."

January, 2005, Northwest Educator, "Media Literacy for Classroom Teachers," by Gloria DeGaetano.

January, 2005, Parent Map, "Media Literacy for Teens," featuring Gloria DeGaetano.

November, 2004, Seattle's Child, "How Parenting Has Changed in the Last 25 Years," by Gloria DeGaetano.

October, 2004, Glen Ellen News/Wheaton Leader, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coach® Jen Mangan, "Parents Make it with a Little Coaching."

October, 2004, Seattle's Child, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coaches™ Sally Kidder Davis, Mary Scribner, Chris Christensen, and Rachel Eden, "Parent Coaches Offer Help for the Journey through Childhood".

October, 2004, The Peninsula Gateway, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coach® Tina Thomas, "Parents Can Call for Help When the Cheerios Fly."

February, 2004, Better Homes and Garden, "Paging a Parent Coach," featuring the pioneering work of Gloria DeGaetano.

January, 2004, The Chicago Daily Herald, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coach®Jen Mangan, "Parent Coach Offers Helping Hand."

January, 2004, American Way Magazine, "Family Matters: Overworked and perplexed parents turning to a new brand of life-skills teacher—parent coaches," featuring Gloria DeGaetano and the PCI.

December, 2003, Spirit: Southwest Airlines Magazine, "The Parent Coach: An Interview with Gloria DeGaetano, Founder and CEO, The Parent Coaching Institute."

December 2003, PCI Certified Parent Coach® Sally Kidder Davis interviewed on Fox Northwest.

September, 2003, Kevin Neely interviews Gloria DeGaetano, The Ed Buggs Radio Show, WIBR News Talk Radio, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

August, 2003, The Washington Times, "TV Adds to Student Woes," featuring parent advice from Gloria DeGaetano.

Summer, 2003, TV News, NBC-affiliates, "The Parent Coaching Institute," Special interest story aired on in over twenty major cities around the country.

June 25, 2003, Nikkei Marketing Journal of Japan, featuring PCI Certified Parent Coach® Sally Kidder Davis, "Parent Coaching".

June 10, 2003, Jean-Baptiste Su, U.S. Correspondent (West Coast), interviews Gloria DeGaetano for feature article in La Tribune.

June 6, 2003, Gloria DeGaetano appears on The Morning Zone Show, KGAB, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

June 3, 2003, Tony Cox interviews Gloria DeGaetano, The Tavis Smiley Show, NPR.

June 1, 2003, The Sunday London Times, "Focus: Mother's Little Helper".

June 1, 2003, London Observer, "Just Wait Till I Tell…My Coach".

May 29, 2003, Gloria DeGaetano interviewed for Radio over Vermont, WLVB, Morrisville, Vermont.

May 23, 2003, Gloria DeGaetano interviewed for South Africa Mid-Day.

May, 22, 2003, The Wall Street Journal, "Need a Game Plan for a Cranky Kid? Call a Parent Coach," featuring Gloria DeGaetano and her pioneering efforts in the parent coaching industry.