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