What are you putting in your body? Understand and take control of your relationship with alcohol or food.
Identify triggers for anger or frustration and respond calmly instead of reacting impulsively in the moment.
Modern life can be relentless! Build resilience, get more grounded and focus on what truly matters most.
Reconnect with your core values and rebuild a stronger sense of who you are and what you stand for.
Is work encroaching on personal time, or vice versa? Set boundaries and calmly prioritise busy schedules.
Reduce perceived pain and support recovery by calming the nervous system's stress response.
Adopt healthier habits by shifting mindset around motivation, discipline and body image.
Release old patterns and reconnect with your partner, friends, family... or anyone else important to you.
Reprogram limiting beliefs, boost confidence, sharpen focus and build motivation for growth.
Define Your Vision and Goals
What kind of dad do you want to be? How does parenthood fit in with the rest of your life (or how does the rest of your life fit in with parenthood!)? Establish clear, specific, and measurable parenting goals.
Identifying Obstacles and Limiting Beliefs
Uncover the root causes of your challenges as we identify and understand your limiting beliefs and identify key obstacles.
Strategic Action Planning and Resource Mapping
You'll develop concrete steps and identify available resources in a personalised action plan with practical strategies and identified support systems.
Communication and Connection
Enhance your communication skills with children and partners to create stronger family connections.
Stress Management and Self-Care
Ensure you prioritise your well-being. Understand how you can reduce stress and integrate practical self-care and stress management strategies into your daily life.
Values Alignment and Confidence Building
Establish personal values and align parenting goals with personal values to increase confidence and a deeper sense of purpose in fatherhood and the rest of your life.
Implementation and Progress Review
Review progress, make adjustments and reinforce positive changes for continued success.
Sustaining Change and Future Planning
Focus: Creating sustainable habits and planning for ongoing growth. Outcome: Strategies for maintaining positive changes and continued personal development as a dad.
QUICK Chat
During this 30 minute call we will get to know one another and most importantly, we will both establish whether we are a good fit in terms of working together to help you realise your goals. When you decide to proceed we'll book in your sessions.
The Full
The full Dadventure Coach program is delivered in 8 steps (plus homework and checkins), typically delivered over 8 weeks.
It can also be delivered as an intense accelerated program over a single day or two half days.
Micro Sessions
If you are too busy or do not yet want to commit to the full program, this is a great way to get started and get really clear on your personal values and build a foundation for future work – whether that's with me or with another coach or therapist.
It's important that you understand that anything can be said, everything is heard and nothing is judged. Everything we discuss is confidential, unless I believe that someone may be in danger or if we agree that someone else needs to be involved.
I do not magically 'fix' you or give you the answers — all that's going to come from you! I simply guide you through a highly personalised process, tailored to your specific needs, that requires your honesty, commitment, input and action.
While you may find coaching to be a 'therapeutic' experience is is not therapy. Nor, should it be confused with mentoring:
I do not magically 'fix' you or give you the answers — all that's going to come from you! I simply guide you through a highly personalised process, tailored to your specific needs, that requires your honesty, commitment, input and action.
This is not about spending hours trying to make sense of your past (that's been and gone and exists only as a memory, and probably an inaccurate one!). The process is about creating the future you want. We combine previous experiences with realistic future goals to highlight how you can overcome challenges, make better decisions and utilise your resources to create change, fast.
The more you put in, the more you get out of this process. It feeds on your input and involvement. If you hold back we won't get to the root of what is holding you back from living the life you want to live.
I am not here to help you 'feel' better. I am here to help you 'do' better (and by taking action you will be able to make yourself feel better)! Sometimes the process can bring up things that you find confronting. But this is part of the process, as only by identifying them can you truly target and overcome them.
Everyone is different, has different needs and thinks differently from one day to the next, so we take an adaptable approach with wriggle room for the unexpected! There may be tears, there is usually laughter and lots of other emotions in between.
We will establish what your true challenges are, their triggers and the impact on your life. Your processing, filtering and response patterns may be challenged.
We embed the courage, resources and power that enable you to continue to make choices that create long-lasting change, disrupt negative thinking and make decisions with confidence.
You will establish what’s important to you — by identifying your values, sense of purpose and your ‘north star’. This becomes the platform from which you can process thoughts, filter feelings, amplify your strengths, add value and respond to the world around you in a new and positive way.
The Dadventure Coach porgram utilises the Rapid Results Coaching framework (developed by Authentic Education). This approach focuses on identifying core challenges and obstacles quickly, then implementing targeted strategies to achieve tangible improvements.
By emphasising clarity, action, and accountability, Rapid Results Coaching empowers dads to move beyond vague aspirations and create concrete, positive changes in their lives and families.
It's particularly effective for busy dads who need focused, practical guidance to navigate the complexities of modern parenting, allowing them to shape their own unique path to becoming happier, healthier, and more confident fathers.
Focus:
Time Orientation:
Professional Scope:
Problem vs. Goal:
Medical Model vs. Developmental Model:
When Coaching is appropriate:
When Therapy is appropriate:
Rapid Results Coaching is one of the fastest ways to change behaviour. Typically we work with a program lasting 8 sessions. This could be done in a single day, but is typically spread over 4 to 8 weeks.
However, most people say that they experience a significant improvement or change during their first session.
Different coaches have different pricing structures, ranging from $120 an hour to $400 an hour. Some coaches will charge for a program.
The Happy Dad Project is program based and you can see the costs on the Coaching page.
When conducted by a trained coach, coaching is considered a very safe process for most people, unless they have a severe mental illness.
Throughout your Big Dadventure coaching you are always in control, always conscious and always able to stop the session if you are not comfortable with how things are progressing.
This dynamic approach works well for clients of all ages, from all kinds of backgrounds at home, at work, at school and anywhere else in between. As family is a critical component of fatherhood, I often work with teens and young adults.
When working with anyone under the age of 18, I will need parental consent and will ask for a parent or guardian to be present at one or more of the sessions, depending on how things are progressing.
I feel ten feet tall and I'm normally 5'7 so I'm feeling great!
Tom has helped me change my attitude towards alcohol and I am now able to drink in moderation.
Tom got me back on track... not just training, but really enjoying my running again.