Sana is a certified Parent Educator/ Coach from Positive Discipline Association of United States and also has an educational background in Psychology. Her mission is to help parents find the joy in parenting through embracing a respectful parenting paradigm, one that focuses on connection, compassion, and collaboration. She has attended many conferences, workshops and courses to this end, and to learn childhood development and relational neuroscience. Sana believes self-healing is crucial to respectful parenting and thus approaches all parenting struggles through a trauma-informed lens. She recognizes mindfulness and self-compassion are key to healing and positive relationships, and has thus completed a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction certificate course. She has also studied under Dr Kristin Neff to learn about her evidence-based Mindful Self-Compassion model. Sana's particular area of interest is helping shift the mainstream perspective on children with special/ additional needs. To this end, Sana has received special training in helping explosive children with behavioral challenges, using Dr Ross Greene's model of Collaborative and Proactive Solutions. She also has a certificate in introductory level DIR and DIRFloortime therapy, a compassionate and evidence-based model to support, and teach skills to children with higher support needs.