Raising Maine

For over twenty years, Connie Hammer, social worker, parent educator, step-family counselor and parent coach, has been energetically guiding frustrated, lost and confused parents to achieve their parenting hopes and dreams with her amazing skills. Her clients consistently describe a metamorphosis from a place of doubt, guilt and chaos to a confident, guilt-free place of harmony. Let her help you emerge from your cocoon and watch your butterfly take flight. Her pledge to you is, “Invite me to become your parenting partner and I will transform your parenting world.”

One working mom stated, “Connie was my SOS. She was that Supportive Objective Someone I could lean on and learn from." Years ago as a young wife and mother of three sons, Connie would seek out objective and supportive individuals to assist her with her parenting challenges, now parents are seeking her out. When a friend’s child was abused in 1983 her passion to protect children was ignited and eighteen months later she founded a county-wide non-profit agency to prevent child abuse and neglect that continues to thrive. Committed to doing even more for children and families, she acquired her MSW as her unique personal journey led her to experience life as a divorced, single, working and step parent which allows her to understand parenting from various perspectives.

Connie founded her coaching business, The Progressive Parent, LLC (www.theprogressiveparent.com) in 2005 and acquired her Parent Coach Certification™ from The Parent Coaching Institute of Bellevue, Washington, the nation’s only Parent Coach Certification™ in affiliation with Seattle Pacific University’s prestigious, graduate-level Continuing Education Program. Prior to this she spent seventeen years working as a school social worker counseling children and supporting parents.

Now running her coaching business from home, her mission continues to be helping parents achieve harmony in their home, work and family life. Due to extensive training she acquired in child abuse prevention, conflict resolution and mediation she has developed a special focus on guiding parents to raise victimless children that are resilient to all forms of child abuse and bullying.