
Joan Armon, Ph.D.
Joan is passionate about coaching parents and grandparents of young children. She’s delighted to offer Holistic Parent Coaching based upon her own parenting and grandparenting experiences. She builds on her love for children, admiration for parents, and knowledge of current parenting research as she offers coaching to a wider circle of parents and grandparents.
A deep understanding of parenting, grandparenting, and children’s physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and ethical development is grounded in her Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Policy, and Curriculum and Instruction degrees. She has advised diverse families and children as the director of a daycare and preschool and as an elementary classroom teacher.
Additionally, Joan served as a teacher coach and as a university professor for nineteen years focused on children’s listening, speaking, reading, and writing development and instruction. For delicious, outdoor learning, she also taught regenerative agriculture classes that brought college students, elementary school children, and organic farmers together to grow and eat healthy foods in Denver and southern Colorado.
Training in Cognitive Coaching and Nonviolent Communication inform Joan’s insightful coaching. She listens compassionately and celebrates parents’ and grandparents’ successes while addressing challenges through artful coaching. Joan collaborates with parents and grandparents to generate and finetune childrearing strategies according to parents’ values and aspirations. She is honored to coach parents and grandparents toward their aims for healthy and happy families.

Through Holistic Parent Coaching, Joan provides a refuge for parents and grandparents to:
- Express pride about their effective parenting and grandparenting;
- Describe frustrations about their less-than-effective parenting and grandparenting;
- Identify successful parenting and grandparenting experiences to build upon as well as challenges that call for meaningful changes;
- Collaborate to plan and implement immediate and long-term parenting and grandparenting based on family values, beliefs, traditions, and aspirations;
- Implement 9 Pathways to Attuned Parenting & Grandparenting;
- Recognize that as parents and grandparents we continue developing capacities for being present, patient, and firm when needed as we relate to our children and grandchildren;
- Celebrate change toward family harmony.
Just as a vibrant poppy thrives on sunlight to unfold petals revealing inner beauty, so each child thrives on care and love to develop inner brilliance in physical, emotional, cognitive, and ethical dimensions.
JOAN ARMON, PHD – HOLISTIC PARENT COACHING
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
The complexities, fast pace, and disconnections from family and other communities leave parents and grandparents without the supportive people and places they need. Too often, there’s no one to talk to about childrearing with its joys, challenges, and best ways to parent and grandparent. Holistic parent and grandparent coaching provides a place to express and gain clarity about those joys, challenges, and best parenting and grandparenting practices.

Illustration by Robert Armon
What Can You Expect at a Session?

Illustration by Robert Armon
JOAN ARMON, PHD – HOLISTIC PARENT COACHING
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
Please contact me first via email jdarmoncoach@gmail.com or use the Contact Form to coordinate a day and time.