Practical, compassionate support for parents and teenagers who want fewer power struggles, clearer boundaries, and a stronger relationship.
Your family is not a problem to be fixed
Parenting a teenager can be loving, funny, meaningful—and exhausting. When conversations turn into arguments, your teen shuts down, or every limit becomes a power struggle, it can be hard to know what will actually help.
Kindred Consulting helps families slow the cycle down, understand what is driving the behaviour, and find practical ways forward. The goal is not perfect parenting or obedient teenagers. It is greater safety, cooperation, confidence, and connection.
Kindred can help with
- Frequent arguments, defiance, and power struggles
- Emotional outbursts, irritability, or shutting down
- Technology, gaming, and household-boundary conflicts
- School motivation, avoidance, routines, and executive functioning
- ADHD-, autism-, and neurodiversity-informed family support
- Parent–teen disconnection, trust, and communication
- Stressful transitions, separation, grief, and changing family relationships
Support shaped around your family
For parents
Make sense of difficult behaviour, respond without escalating, and develop boundaries you can hold with warmth and confidence.
For teenagers
A respectful, non-judgmental space to build self-understanding, emotional regulation, communication, motivation, and practical life skills.
Together
Structured parent–teen conversations that reduce blame, make room for both perspectives, repair ruptures, and create workable agreements.
A practical and relationship-centred approach
Behaviour is communication. Kindred looks beneath the surface of conflict while helping families make concrete changes at home. Support is collaborative, strengths-based, trauma-aware, neurodiversity-affirming, and grounded in the belief that empathy and dependable boundaries belong together.
How it works
- Start with a free 30-minute consultation. We will discuss what is happening and whether Kindred is the right fit.
- Choose the right format. Meetings may be parent-only, teen-only, or joint, offered online or in your Edmonton-area home.
- Build a family roadmap. You will leave with practical strategies, clear next steps, and support adapting them to real life.
Meet Chris MacDonald
I have spent twenty years supporting children, teenagers, parents, and caregivers living with behavioural challenges, developmental differences, mental-health concerns, ADHD, and autism. I hold an Honours degree in Applied Psychology and am completing a Master of Counselling Psychology.
I am also a dad, educator, longtime youth worker, Santa portrayal artist, and former circus juggler. Those experiences have taught me that young people connect when they feel respected, understood, and genuinely engaged—not when they feel like a problem being managed.
Current scope: Kindred currently provides non-clinical consulting, coaching, education, and family support. These services are not psychotherapy, psychological assessment, diagnosis, or crisis care. Counselling services will be introduced only after appropriate professional registration and supervision are in place.
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