Michigan

My name is Talia Ziv. I am a clinical psychologist, a certified Life Coach and a PCI Certified Parent Coach®.

My experience of parenting four successful adult children; my extensive professional experiences as an educator, a teacher, and a psychologist; my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Education; in conjunction with wide-ranging coach training; thoroughly prepared me for my love's labor, Relationship and Parent Coaching, which I passionately practice in my personal and professional life today. I work with individuals, adults and adolescents, couples, parents, families, and groups, assisting them in designing, implementing, and living a satisfying Relational Life: A Relational Life of optimal contentment and happiness!

Professional certifications awarded to me include: Master Addiction Counselor, Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, and a Certified Advanced Imago Relationship Therapist. Additionally, I am a Certified Life Coach, awarded by the College of Executive Coaching, and a PCI Certified Parent Coach®, awarded by the Parent Coaching Institute (PCI), in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University. I hold the distinguished status of Psychologist Diplomat and Psychologist Fellow, as well as Certified Relationship Specialist awarded by The American Psychotherapy Association.

I have extensive experience in Relational Recovery-Life and Parent Coaching. I assist people, parents, couples, and families in enhancing their recovery process and helping them develop the skills necessary for establishing satisfying relationships, while at the same time maintaining long term abstinence and developing a resilient recovery relational life. I am dedicated to coaching people to live intentionally, and in so doing, enhance their life-satisfaction and boost the overall quality of their relational life.

My Parent and Life Coaching orientation is shaped by humanistic and existential philosophies, inspired and greatly influenced by the theories and practices of Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry. I strongly believe that through the process of tapping into personal values, needs, and aspirations; focusing on strengths; and personal and relational resources; clients can and will develop individual and relational competence and as a result will flourish in ways never before experienced.

Parent Recovery-Coaching

Parent Recovery Life-Coaching is specifically designed and directed toward parents who are dealing with their adolescent or adult child's substance abuse or addiction, and/or other various addictions.

As a clinical psychologist, Certified Life Coach, and PCI Certified Parent Coach®, I have a unique specialty in both addiction and in the recovery process. This specialty combined with my expertise in relationship-enhancement has helped me over the years in assisting parents, couples and families who are dealing with addictions, to re-connect and to re-establish harmony and love in their relationships. As a result, parents, their children, and their families as a whole, experience wellness, contentment and an overall enhancement of the quality of their personal and relational life.

Through Parent Recovery-Coaching, parents will develop and enhance their knowledge of addiction and develop understanding of how family members and family dynamics are impacted when alcohol and/or drugs are used, or addictive practices take over the family system. Through Parent Coaching, parents will learn more effective and compassionate ways to confidently deal with their circumstances. They are guided and supported to boost their self-care through the coaching process, and are assisted in exploring, identifying, designing and implementing their preferred future and their parenting dreams. This process is based on identifying and building on parents' strengths and on their most cherished core values. Parents report that via the coaching process, they feel supported and cared about which all culminates in the realization of their preferred Relational Life. Ultimately, Parent Coaching helps individuals, parents, children, and families become more emotionally and relationally competent, more connected, much happier, and more resilient, which further allows them to better function and cope with the ever changing demands and challenges of life.

Parent Recovery-Coaching thereby contributes to a greater sense of well being, relational contentment and happiness, and an overall enhancement of the Quality of Life.