About

Susan Notis

Susan Notis is a certified Integrative Life and Parent Coach, bestselling author, and speaker who helps parents raise resilient, confident, and balanced children without losing themselves in the process. Susan specializes in helping parents create calmer homes, stronger connections, and confident kids — all through compassion and consistency, not control.

Through her Raising by Example coaching program and self-paced course Capable Kids, Lighter Load, Susan guides parents to move from daily frustration and burnout to a family rhythm built on mutual respect, teamwork, and joy. Her approach blends research-backed tools with real-life practicality, helping parents feel lighter, more confident, and more connected to their children (and themselves).

Susan works through an integrative model that views the family as a whole system. For example, a parent may come to her because their child is hitting — but in uncovering the root cause, they might discover healing needed around their own childhood experiences, or that the family’s current schedule isn’t supporting emotional regulation. In Susan’s work, all areas of family life are encouraged to be in balance with one another, fostering growth, awareness, and lasting change for both parent and child.

Besides online and 1:1 private coaching, Susan offers parenting workshops, and speaking engagements on topics such as creating loving boundaries with your children, fostering compassion as a tool for connection, and raising capable, resilient kids in today’s busy world. Her coaching style is known for being warm, grounded, and deeply encouraging — she meets parents where they are and helps them grow with grace.

Before founding her coaching practice, Susan spent years as an educator, in both public and Waldorf schools, where she first witnessed the power of connection-based parenting. She continues to bring that same nurturing wisdom to her work today.

Susan co-authored the international best selling parenting book, The Perfectly Imperfect Family: Real Solutions for Mindful Parents Navigating Today's Biggest Challenges.

Outside of coaching, Susan loves time in nature, a good cup of tea, and moments of laughter with her own family. She also draws inspiration from her own personal healing journey — navigating and recovering from cancer taught her that it’s never too late to make big changes in life. She shares that message with her clients as living proof that transformation, balance, and joy are always possible--it all starts with one small, meaningful shift at a time.

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