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Special needs life coaching · Plantation, FL
Support that meets your family where you actually are.
Heart and Mind Coaching works with parents and caregivers raising children with special needs — building confidence, structure, and steadiness for the people holding everything together.
- Led by a coach raising a child on the spectrum
- Virtual & in-person sessions
- Private, group & workshop formats
- Coaching, not clinical treatment — forward-looking and goal-based
- Built for parents, caregivers, and whole family units
- Rooted in lived experience, not theory alone
About Heart and Mind Coaching
A coach who understands, because she lives it.
Heart and Mind Coaching was founded by Coach Shany, a mother raising a son on the autism spectrum. She knows what it's like when therapies, school meetings, paperwork, and your own hopes for your child all compete for the same twenty-four hours.
Out of years of practicing coaching skills inside her own family, she built a practical formula for moving parents from overwhelmed to in control — without pretending the hard days aren't hard.
This isn't generic parenting advice, and it isn't therapy. It's coaching built around the specific realities of raising a child with special needs: the logistics, the grief and joy that arrive on the same afternoon, and the goals you are still allowed to have for yourself.
Start with a free call and tell her what's going on.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau
The approach
How coaching actually works.
Four steps, in order — because progress with a family works better as a sequence than a scramble.
A plan built around you
We set goals together — for your child, for you, and for the household — instead of applying someone else's script to your life.
Sessions at your pace
Private or group sessions give you steady support, accountability, and a place to think out loud with someone who won't flinch at the hard parts.
Milestones, marked
When something shifts — a diagnosis accepted, a goal reached, a new season starting — we mark it on purpose. Progress deserves to be noticed.
Services
Ways to work together.
Every option starts the same way — a free call, so you never book blind.
Private coaching session
Dedicated time to work through what's specific to your family — a decision, a transition, a stuck point — with a plan you leave holding.
Schedule thisGroup coaching
Sit with other parents who are living a version of your week. Shared perspective, practical strategy, and the relief of not explaining from scratch.
Schedule thisGoal setting workshop
A focused hour that turns “I don't know where to start” into one clear, doable next step — and a way to keep setting them after.
Schedule thisAcceptance ceremony
A guided, meaningful session for families ready to honor a turning point — a diagnosis met with peace, a chapter closed, a new one named out loud.
Schedule thisNot sure which fits? Say so on the form below. Finding the right starting point — and going over what it costs — is part of the free call.
Coming soon
Retreats on Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
A few days away for the parent who never gets one. Ocean mornings, small-group coaching with Coach Shany, and enough quiet to remember what you want for your own life — not just everyone else's.
- Small groups
- Coaching, rest, and real conversation
- Pacific coast, Costa Rica
- Dates being finalized
Questions
Before you book.
What is special needs life coaching, exactly?
It's forward-looking, goal-based support for parents and caregivers — not therapy and not medical treatment. The focus is practical strategy, confidence, and steadiness for you, so you're better resourced for your child.
Do you work with children, or with the parents?
Sessions are built for parents, caregivers, and family units. Coach Shany draws on her own experience raising a son on the autism spectrum to support the adults carrying the load.
Are sessions virtual or in person?
Both. Heart and Mind Coaching is based in Plantation, Florida for in-person sessions, and works with families anywhere by video.
What ages and situations do you support?
Families raising children with autism and other developmental, intellectual, or physical special needs — at any stage, from a brand-new diagnosis to planning for young adulthood.
How do I know which service is right for us?
Start with the free discovery call. We'll talk through what's happening and figure out together whether a private session, group coaching, a workshop, or something else is the right first step.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your family.
Send a note and Coach Shany will get back to you personally to schedule your free call.
- Phone
- 305-934-9197
- misseiny@gmail.com
- Based in
- 9181 NW 11th Ct
Plantation, FL - Availability
- By appointment, including evenings