About

Whether  you’re expecting or adopting your first child, a new parent or a parenting veteran, Parent Alliance® is your source for great advice and tools to achieve and maintain personal and relationship fulfillment and coparenting success.

Research shows that 66% to 90% of couples report a significant drop in relationship satisfaction after having a child, while 9 in 10 indicate some decline (FYI, most of us assume we’re the 1 in 10 until we have a kid). Plus, each new phase in our kids’ development–starting school, the teen years, empty nesting–delivers unique challenges for moms and dads, individually, as a couple and as coparents.

Rather than sacrifice individual and relationship happiness to have a family, Parent Alliance® helps you: increase intimacy, enhance personal and relationship satisfaction, improve positive communication and teamwork, decrease destructive fights, learn conflict resolution,  and align parenting styles.

Research shows that parents’ individual fulfillment, relationship satisfaction and coparenting success are key to our kids’ happiness and developmental wellbeing. Plus, strong bonds between parents not only help us build strong relationships with our children, they ensure we model satisfying relationships for them. If we don’t teach our kids what a great relationship looks like, who will?

Founded by Rhona Berens, PhD, CPCC, Parent Alliance® offers great resources for parents and expecting couples, including short, helpful articles on a range of topics, like how to “fight right.” Rhona also offers dynamic talks and workshops for parents on a range of topics, including positive communication, conflict resolution, and compromise-without-conflict, and offers great tips on trigger-topics like finances, childcare and household roles and intimacy.

Rhona’s a fun and compassionate coach, who works with individuals and couples across North America via phone, online video or in-person for those located in Los Angeles.

Rhona specializes in Relationship Systems Intelligence (see RSI-White-Paper), an advanced coaching method developed by the Center for Right Relationship that views all relationships–couples, families, colleagues, teams–as complex systems in which: conflict isn’t a problem but a signal that change is needed; all opinions are important, even unpopular ones; and relationships aren’t about me, or you, they’re about us. Rhona supports “us” in relationships.

Whether you’re expecting a baby by birth, surrogacy or adoption, you’ll benefit from the Parent Alliance® Coaching Program (PACP), 3 to 6 sessions designed to babyproof your unique relationship. Rhona also speaks & leads workshops on a variety of topics, and offers individual and relationship coaching to those who want to tackle specific relationship,  parenting, professional or life challenges. Click here to read what clients say about Rhona and Parent Alliance®. To book your  complimentary individual or relationship session, or to learn more about Parent Alliance®, email rhona@parentalliance.com.

About Rhona: Rhona is a certified Individual & Relationship Coach, and mom to a preschooler and infant. In addition to her articles here on Parent Alliance®, she writes for ahopefulsign.com, pregnancy.org, pregnancyawareness.com, mamapapa.ca, thenextfamily.com, planningfamily.com, and travelingmom.com. Rhona also serves on the Advisory Board of The Children’s Project, which is devoted to helping raise emotionally healthy children.

Based in Los Angeles, Rhona coaches individuals and couples across North America via phone and online video. She’s known for being a compassionate, accessible and fun coach, and her clients report improved communication, less conflict, happier relationships, and co-parenting success.

Rhona is a Certified Co-Active Coach© trained by the Coaches Training Institute and a Relationship Systems Coach trained by the Center for Right Relationship. Rhona’s accredited by the International Coach Federation. She also has a past life as a senior exec and business consultant, and is a recovering academic, with specialties in Communications and Media, which is why you’ll see the letters “PhD” after her name here and elsewhere on the web.