Building roots for wings to unfold
Children are our most precious resource and so are the adults who raise them.
This is not therapy or rigid skill building, this is individualized co-creation.
Roots & Wings is mental health fitness for caregivers grounded in research, informed by lived experience and guided by a framework that moves families toward connection and fulfilled life.
This isn’t about better parenting ~ It’s about doing it differently
Most parenting advice starts with the child’s behaviour: what to do when they melt down, won’t listen, push back, or shut down. It gives you scripts and strategies.
Roots & Wings starts somewhere else entirely. It starts with you, with your nervous system, with the unspoken stories you carry into every family moment. Because the most powerful thing you can offer your child isn’t a technique. It’s a regulated, present, genuinely curious grown-up.
Roots & Wings Six Session Package
A six-session personal coaching package.
For caregivers who want personalized, one-on-one support to understand their own nervous system patterns, build more attuned relationships with their children, and create family rhythms that actually feel sustainable.
This program is for you if:
- You feel chronically depleted, reactive, or disconnected from your children
- Your child’s nervous system (and your own) feel stuck in survival mode
- You have a child who doesn’t fit the mold and you want support. not a diagnosis or you want to move beyond diagnosis
- You want to interact differently than the way adults interacted with you and you’re not sure where to start
- You’re a caregiver in the early years who wants to understand child development more deeply
Investment and availability: $460 meeting weekly or at least biweekly.
If you or your child are experiencing significant mental health or wellness challenges, Lisa is not a therapist or medical professional and will help connect you with the right support for your needs.
Further Sessions
Follow up to the 6 session package. Personalized sessions to continue in support, accountability and confidence.
$72 per hour (sliding scale starting at $45 and appreciation to those who can invest generously $90+)
Free Membership The Apothecary Workshop Space
Monthly interactive online group workshops that explore inner systems, the unspoken stories we carry into family moments. Mutual support to be regulated, present, genuinely curious grown-ups.
The Apothecary Enhanced Membership
Enhanced resources, live popups and follow up to monthly group integrating learning from larger workshop.
“A space for the grown-ups to anchor roots, so children can fly.”
Customized Coaching Package
One on one support through a framework cocreated as we identify narratives and ways of interacting with self and family that promote co-regulation and valuable discovery. $77 per hour (sliding scale starting at $45 and appreciation those who can invest generously $90+)
Rooted in science
Drawing on the ground breaking work of Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, and Joe Dispenza, we work with your nervous system!~ not against it. Emotional flexibility regulation isn’t a parenting strategy. It’s a biological need, a way to learn to live.
Grounded in 20+ years of child development
Lisa Colbert is a Reggio Emilia focused early childhood educator who owned and operated two licensed childcare centres for nearly a decade, supporting hundreds of families. Along with her own fabulous children and grandchildren, she has spent her career watching children unfold and she knows what they need to do it in a grounded way.
Guided by curiosity and choice
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the principles of the Four Agreements, we trade control for connection and rules for relationship. Parenting as practice, not performance.
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