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ALASKA

Molly McCarthy
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Parent Coach©

mollymac@acsalaska.net
Anchorage, Alaska
907 346 3475

Molly leads Simplicity Parenting Groups© and works with parents one-on-one to create sustainable change in their homes. Contact Molly for more information about her services.

CANADA

Johanna Kalkreuth
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

johanna.kalkreuth@gmail.com
Calgary, Alberta

Johanna leads Simplicity Parenting Groups© and works with parents one-on-one to create sustainable change in their homes. Contact Johanna for more information about her services.

CALIFORNIA

Sue Gimpel
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©
sue@simplicityparenting.com
Greater San Francisco Bay Area, CA
FamilyHomeCoach.org
707-322-6933

Sue Gimpel knows the value and has reaped the rewards of Simplicity Parenting© through her personal experience of raising three young children while facing serious health challenges of her own. Sue has worked with both children and adults with: developmental disabilities, eating disorders, attention priority issues, environmental illness and food sensitivities, learning differences, anxiety disorders, and cumulative stress response in the settings of hospitals, mental health institutions, schools and homes. Sue loves helping parents of young children establish rhythms and routines that ease daily stressors and increase the joy of being together!

She also offers compassionate yet practical strategies for families with “soul fevered” teens and tweens. She is particularly interested in working with families in creating long term change. Whether by helping to establish lifestyles that may prevent the need for further therapeutic intervention, or supporting families already in a therapeutic process, the newly formed habits will help to sustain lasting results.

Along with the variety of experiences in the mental health field, Sue also has had entrepreneurial experience in the area of executive recruiting/career counseling. She has been parenting for 20 years with her husband Ralph, of 25 years. Though a native of Michigan, Sue’s lived in California for 30 years and currently resides in West Sonoma County, CA, with her husband and their three children.

Laurie Tuchel
Family Coach and Facilitator
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

chinchillahillarts@comcast.net
Sonoma and Marin Counties, California
707 696 3601

Laurie is an artist and teacher who has been an educator for thirty years. She has worked with all ages–preschool through adult. For the last twenty years she has been involved in Waldorf education and now works with social inclusion at a Waldorf Charter school. She is particularly interested in helping families sculpt their lives as works of art– so that family life becomes an expression of the core values and love within the family.

MASSACHUSETTS

Jennifer Goodman
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

jen@simplicityparenting.com
Boston, MA

Jennifer leads Simplicity Parenting Groups© and she works with parents one-on-one to create sustainable change in their homes. Contact Jennifer for more information about her services.

NEW YORK

Deb Renna
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©
deb@simplicityparenting.com
Chestnut Ridge, New York
845 290 1399

Before becoming the Lower School Educational Support Liaison at Green Meadow Waldorf School, Deb taught in the Green Meadow kindergarten for 14 years. She has chaired the Early Childhood Section and the Care Group Committee, been a member of the Listening Council, and most recently developed the Social Inclusion Committee. In addition to her many years of teaching and service at Green Meadow Waldorf School, Deb weaves together her wisdom and experience as a special education teacher in the Ridgewood public schools, with her recent training as a Collaborative Counselor and Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach. She is the mother of two Green Meadow alums, plays golf and recently competed in the New York City Marathon.

NORTH CAROLINA

Whitney MacDonald, M.Ed
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

whitmac@nc.rr.com
Triangle Area, North Carolina
sakpassage.com
919 608 1114

Whitney has been a coach and educator for over twenty years. His teaching career began while coaching basketball teams in youth at-risk programs in Oakland, Ca. As a coach and tutor he saw the impact that a positive male influence could have on boys in their teen years. After receiving his Masters in Education and Waldorf teacher’s certification at Antioch University, he taught and coached for fourteen years at the Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, NC. During this time he and his wife, Amy MacDonald, CNM, developed and implemented a comprehensive health education program for the students of the school. Even as we developed a successful program Whitney saw more was needed than a school could provide. Good kids from good families were struggling in the transition into manhood. It was clear that boys were not getting the support they needed during this time of transition so he set out to find a better way. Out of this, Sakonnet Passage was born.

He grew up in Ohio and Massachusetts playing sports of all kinds and developing an on-going love of the sea and the outdoors. His favorite places to be in the world are on the ocean or in the redwoods. Whitney has lectured on education both domestically and abroad and he’s doing on-going work in China. He’s also been active in Hands-in-Peace, an international organization which brings young people from societies in conflict together for cultural healing through athletics and cultural sharing. He lives in Hillsborough, NC with his wife and two teenage sons and their dog, Stella.

Raelee Peirce
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

raelee@noblemother.com
Triangle Area, North Carolina
noblemother.com
919 370 4274

Raelee has a degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in family relationships from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her work with families in 1996. Raelee is passionate about helping mothers find their own compass to navigate their journey of parenthood. Her sense of humor, confidence, and strengthening encouragement allow moms to find more clarity, self-discipline, and contentment from their parenting experience.

As a Certified Parent Coach with the Parent Coaching Institute of Seattle Pacific University, she began working from home, providing phone coaching sessions to mothers in 2006 . Her work with parents is influenced by Waldorf education and parenting philosophies that encourage parents to follow their own intuition. Authors she promotes include Kim Payne, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Aletha Solter, Ronald Morrish, and Sharifa Oppenheimer. In 2009, she became acquainted with Kim John Payne at her Waldorf school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She became a certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader© and a Simplicity Parenting Coach© in 2010.

She is the founder of noblemother.com; she provides Simplicity Parenting© courses in the Triangle Area in North Carolina and virtually; she provides one-on-one support for moms of children under age 7 all over the globe via phone beginning with a free 25-minute introductory session, and she is the Outreach Coordinator with the Center for Social Sustainability with Kim John Payne, responsible for social networking including Simplicity Parenting© blog editor, on-line training development and support, and website maintenance. She resides in Chapel Hill with her husband, their 2 children in a multi-generational custom-built home with Raelee’s parents.

VERMONT

joan@simplicityparenting.com
Central Vermont
Central Vermont Simplicity Parenting
Phone number 802-223-3005

Joan has been working with parents since 2002 as a daycare provider, teaching parent infant classes and now as a Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach. She is also the parent of two children who spend lots of time educating her on the importance of simplicity, paying attention and patience.

Joan offers Simplicity Parenting Groups in Vermont. Each group meets for seven sessions, over a 14-week period. For information about when a group will be starting or if you are interested in hosting a group please contact Joan.

Marianne Donahue Perchlik
Parenting Coach and Childbirth Mentor
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©

chikabee@sover.net
Central Vermont
http://lovebirthing.wordpress.com/
802-426-3127

Marianne offers childbirth education, parent groups and coaching,and residential retreats for families throughout Central Vermont. Marianne Donahue Perchlik is a Certified Birthing From Within Mentor©, and a Simplicity Parenting Coach and Group Leader©. Marianne was formerly assistant teacher in the Morning Garden program at Orchard Valley Waldorf School, an early childhood program for parents with toddlers.

Marianne is the mother of three children and married for 13 years to Andrew Perchlik. Prior to motherhood, Marianne provided counsel to parents and juveniles as an attorney at law. A passionate advocate for regenerative agriculture, Marianne also has a Masters degree in Environmental Law.

WASHINGTON

martha.swain@hotmail.com
Seattle, WA
206 782 3768

As a parent of a teenager and a teacher of three year-olds, Martha is reminded daily of the importance of routine and keeping life simple. After a satisfying career in social services, being a parent inspired her to a second career as a Waldorf early childhood teacher. She has been at the Seattle Waldorf School since 2002. She loves her work because the children discover the magic of play and share their enthusiasm for life and she finds parents of young children to be open, curious and dedicated to their children’s well-being.

As a coach and group leader, I want to bring the valuable work of Simplicity Parenting© to reach as many people as possible. Please contact Martha for 2011 dates for Simplicity Parenting Groups© and individual coaching.