This is not about fixing your child.
It is about understanding them. When you understand why behaviour occurs, what is driving it, what is maintaining it, and what the environment is asking of your child, everything changes. You respond differently. The patterns shift. And you stop feeling like you are always one step behind.
That is what parent support with Solas is about. Not handing you a programme and sending you on your way. Sitting alongside you, helping you make sense of what you are seeing, and building your confidence to respond in a way that actually works.
How it works
Parent support sessions are one hour long and entirely tailored to you, your child, and where you are right now. There is no fixed agenda, no standard protocol, and no assumption that what worked for another family will work for yours.
Every session is shaped around what you need most. The examples below give you a sense of what that can look like in practice, but your sessions may look completely different, and that is exactly as it should be.
Getting Started
In a first session we talk about your child - their strengths, their challenges, their interests, the behaviours that are most difficult right now. We look at what is happening, when it is happening, and what tends to follow it. By the end of the session you will have a clearer picture of what is going on and a starting point for where to focus first.
Building Your Understanding
Some parents want to go deeper into the science. How reinforcement actually works. What function a behaviour is serving. Why the same approach works for one child and not another. We can spend sessions building that knowledge in a way that is grounded in your specific situation rather than abstract theory.
Working Through
Real Examples
Bring your observations, a video of your child, a moment that confused you, a situation you are not sure how to handle. We work through it together in real time, so you leave with something concrete rather than general advice.
Planning and
Preparing
Once we understand what is driving a behaviour, we build a plan together. Not a rigid protocol but a flexible, practical approach you can actually implement consistently at home. We review it, adjust it, and update it as things change.
In-the-Moment
Analysis
One of the most useful things we can do together is walk through scenarios as they might actually unfold. I describe a situation. You tell me what you would do. We look at it together, think about what the behaviour is producing, and work out what to try differently. This is the kind of practical preparation that makes the difference between knowing the theory and being able to use it.
Who is it for?
Parent support is for any parent who wants to understand their child's behaviour better.
Sessions are not only about reducing difficult behaviour. They are equally about building the behaviours you want to see more of. Teaching a child to use the toilet independently. Building a morning routine that runs without battles. Developing communication, self-help skills, or the ability to manage transitions or big changes. If there is something you want your child to be able to do that they cannot yet do consistently, that is just as relevant here as any behaviour you would like to see less of.
It is particularly useful if you have been given strategies before but not the understanding behind them. If you have tried things that did not work and are not sure why. If you want to feel confident and grounded rather than reactive and exhausted.
Online / In-Person
Sessions are available online for families anywhere in the world, and in person in Dubai.
Home & School Consultation
For families based in Dubai, support can extend beyond the room.
Where it would be helpful, I can observe your child directly, at home during a typical routine, or at school with the appropriate permissions in place. Seeing the environment, the interactions, and the behaviour as it actually occurs gives us information that is difficult to access any other way, and it means the support I offer is grounded in what I have seen rather than what has been described.
Not every family will need this, and it is never a requirement. But for situations that feel complex or where progress in sessions has been slower than expected, a direct observation is often the piece that makes everything else clearer.
If this feels relevant to your situation, mention it when you get in touch and we can discuss whether it is the right next step.
