Parenting Coach for SWANA Moms Raising Kids Between Cultures

Caught Between Your Mama’s Voice & Modern Parenting Advice?

I'm Aline. I have 15 years of experience working with children and families, including many navigating the complexities of parenting between cultures. I help you bridge the gap between how you were raised and how you want to parent, so you can navigate big emotions, behavior, and boundaries with more clarity and confidence.

This Is For You If…

→ You grew up surrounded by family and now you're parenting completely alone

→ You're trying to raise emotionally healthy, grounded kids while the world outside feels heavy and uncertain

→ You love your kids but some days you don't like who you become around them

→ You flip between being too strict and too permissive and feel guilty either way

→ You want to break cycles but you're worried about losing your culture in the process

→ You've read the books and followed the accounts, but none of them were written for someone navigating two cultures at once

→ Asking for help isn't something you were raised to do, but you're starting to realize that finding support is just what the village looks like now

You don’t need more noise.
You need a grounded way to parent with clarity, confidence, and culture.

You’re doing everything right: the books, the podcasts, the experts.

And yet, when your child pushes back, so do you. You freeze. You fight back. You over-explain. You turn into your mom: “because I said so.” You go from too strict to too soft and back again before dinner.

It’s not you. It’s the framework.

The tools you’ve been given weren’t built for your reality: parenting between cultures, without a village, in a world that often feels hard to make sense of.

The To-Gather Method

If you’ve been flip-flopping between how your parents raised you and modern parenting advice, and neither feels right, the To-Gather Method is for you.

It bridges what child development science with what your culture has always known. Developmentally aligned and culturally informed, it helps you break cycles, stay rooted, and raise resilient kids without having to choose between the two.

How We Can Gather Together

Whether you need one on one support or the warmth of a community, there's a place for you here.

1:1 Coaching
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Personalized one on one support tailored to your story, your culture, and your family. We work through the To-Gather Method together , so you can show up differently for your child(ren) and yourself.

Group Coaching – Coming Soon
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An 8-week cohort for parents who want support applying these skills and building community. The village gets rebuilt here. Join the waitlist to be first in when doors open.

Online Course — Coming Soon
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The To-Gather Method as a self-paced course you can move through in your own time. Built for the parent who is ready but needs flexibility.

Why I Started SWANA Mama

I'm Aline. I built the To-Gather Method from two things: a family history shaped by displacement and rebuilding, and over a decade of training and work in educational psychology, school counseling, and health and wellness coaching.

I'm a SWANA mother raising my child in Los Angeles, navigating what it means to parent between cultures, far from the village I grew up expecting, in a world that keeps shifting.

The existing literature is rich and I'm grateful for it. But much of it was never written for the parent raising children far from home, carrying everything her own parents carried, while trying to break cycles in real time.

I built what I couldn't find: grounded, culturally aware support for moms doing this work in the complexity of everyday life.

Professional Background

Fifteen years working with parents and children in both California & Lebanon

MA in Educational Psychology-School Counseling

Board Certification in Health & Wellness Coaching

Full LinkedIn Profile

Your Questions, Answered

  • Coaching is a structured, collaborative space that helps you navigate parenting challenges with more clarity, confidence, and practical tools. It is focused on the present, your daily life, your triggers, your child, and the moments that feel hard in real time. This is parent-facing work. I work with you, not with your child directly. The goal is concrete: less stress, more confidence, and a family dynamic that feels better to live in.

    Therapy is different. It is a clinical space focused on mental health and healing, supporting the processing of past experiences, trauma, and conditions like anxiety or depression. Coaching does not replace therapy. It focuses on what is happening now and what you want to shift moving forward. Both have value and both have their place.

    My background includes years of working alongside multidisciplinary teams, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, speech and language pathologists, and occupational therapists, in special education and school counseling settings. I know where coaching begins and where other forms of support are needed. If at any point I feel that you or your child would be better served by a different kind of professional, I will tell you honestly and help you find the right fit. Your family's wellbeing always comes before the work we're doing together.

  • Not all parenting coaches are created equal, and in an industry that isn't formally regulated, it's worth knowing what to look for.

    Look for someone with a genuine background in child development or child psychology, not just parenting philosophy. Training, education, and direct experience working with children and families matter. So does cross-cultural competence, especially if you're parenting between cultures. A coach who has never had to hold two cultural frameworks at once may not fully understand your reality, no matter how well-intentioned they are.

    Look for lived experience that is relevant to yours. Credentials without personal context can feel clinical. Personal context without credentials can feel well-meaning but unsupported. You want both.

    A note of caution: be wary of anyone whose only qualification is being a parent. Parenthood is meaningful, but it isn't a training program.

    Finally, book the free call. Credentials tell you someone is qualified. The call tells you whether they're right for you. Comfort, communication style, and genuine connection are what make the work actually work.

  • This work is grounded in real life, not ideal parenting theory.

    We focus on what actually happens in your home: tantrums, boundaries, bedtime struggles, power struggles, and the moments that repeat every day.

    Instead of offering rigid rules, coaching helps you understand what is happening beneath the behavior and build responses that fit your child, your values, and your family system.

    The focus is not on control or perfection. It is on awareness, repair, and small shifts that change long-term patterns.


  • SWANA stands for Southwest Asian and North African. It's a term many of us in the diaspora use to describe ourselves, covering people from the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of West and Central Asia who are living and raising families far from where we, our parents, or our grandparents were born.

    This coaching was created with SWANA mothers in mind, particularly those navigating parenting across cultures, expectations, and identities.

    It is not exclusive. It is open to any parent who resonates with the experience of balancing tradition, modern parenting approaches, and the desire to raise emotionally healthy children with more clarity and connection.

  • This work is for parents who want to feel more grounded, intentional, and connected in how they show up for their children.

    It is especially helpful if you often feel overwhelmed in the moment, unsure how to respond to big emotions or behavior, or stuck repeating patterns you want to change.

    You do not need to have everything figured out. You just need to be open to reflection, practice, and change.

  • The early years are when patterns are formed, for both children and parents. Ages 0–6 are a time of rapid brain development, emotional wiring, and relational learning.

    Children are learning how relationships work, how safety feels, and how emotions are handled.

    This stage can also feel the most intense for parents. Sleep is disrupted, emotions are big, and the gap between expectation and reality can feel overwhelming.

    Support during this window is not about perfect parenting. It is about helping you respond with more clarity in the moments that shape long-term patterns.

  • The core program is 10 weeks, 8 private 60-minute sessions spread out to give you time to practice and integrate between calls.

    The pacing is intentional. Parenting change doesn't happen in a single conversation. It happens in the small moments between sessions, when you try something differently and notice what shifts. The two buffer weeks built into the program exist precisely for that, to give you breathing room to apply what you're learning in real life before we build on it together.

    This is foundational work. The goal isn't to make you dependent on coaching for every decision or every difficult moment. It's to give you enough clarity, self-awareness, and practical skill that you trust yourself to navigate most of what parenting throws at you, on your own terms, in your own way.

    That said, parenting comes in seasons. A toddler becomes a preschooler. A new sibling arrives. The world shifts. What you need at one stage isn't always what you need at the next. For moms who have completed the program, single check-in sessions are available for exactly those moments, when you want a space to recalibrate, troubleshoot, or simply not figure it out alone.

  • The founding member rate for the To-Gather Method 10-week coaching container is $699, paid in full, or 2 installments of $399.

    That breaks down to less than $88 per session, or roughly $70 per week over the course of the program. Therapy in Los Angeles can cost up to $250 per session, often with longer timelines and a different focus. A gym membership runs $50 to $100 a month. A dinner out for two easily hits $150. You’d invest in a tutor if your child was struggling in school. You’d hire a sleep coach if nobody had slept in months. You’ll spend more on your child’s birthday party than on your fridge. This is no different. Except the skills you build here stay with you and your children fo the rest of their lives.

    Think of it as a gift to yourself and your family. Less stress, less chaos, more connection, and a family dynamic that actually feels good to live in.

    This program is offered as a complete package. I don't offer single sessions to new clients because the work is designed to build over time, with consistency, reflection, and support between sessions. Real change in how you show up as a parent doesn't happen in one conversation. It happens through repetition, practice, and having someone in your corner as you apply new skills in real life.

    Each month I hold one community spot for a parent who is fully committed but needs additional financial flexibility. If that's you, reach out before booking and we'll find a way to make it work.

    The founding member rate reflects where this program is right now, and pricing will increase after the initial launch.

    If you're still on the fence, the best next step is a free 20-minute discovery call. No obligation, no pressure, just a real conversation about where you are and whether this is a good fit.