Author • Psychiatric Nurse • Speaker • Parent Educator • Certified Parent Coach
Dyan Eybergen, RN is an award-winning author for her parenting book Out of the Mouths of Babes. Her credentials and recognized level of expertise  in parenting education lends itself frequently to CTV SouthWestern Ontario’s Health and Lifestyle and CTV Edmonton’s News at Noon as a contributing parenting expert. Also a member of the Alberta Speaker's Bureau, Dyan has provided parent education to thousands of parents and care givers over the last 16 years. Dyan lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband and three sons.

 Education and Clinical Background:

Dyan Eybergen is a child and adolescent psychiatric nurse with a wide range of therapeutic experience, including work in crisis and stabilization, inpatient assessment and treatment, outpatient/family/child/adolescent counselling and young offender’s rehabilitation. Dyan Eybergen received an undergraduate degree in the study of Psychology from the University of Waterloo; a diploma in Health Sciences from Cambrian College and an Advanced Studies in Mental Health Certificate from Mount Royal College, Alberta. She is also a certified Canadian Mental Health/Psychiatric Registered Nurse and a certified Coach for parents from the Academy of Coaching parents International.

Parents and adolescents are empowered to tap into a wide variety of strengths and resources to identify their needs, set goals and create an action plan for attaining them. Dyan guides parents and adolescents through the change process which includes learning adaptive ways to cope and communicate, improve and sustain relationships and adjust unhealthy responses to stress.

"Sometimes when you are parenting you can’t see the forest for the trees. Dyan’s thoughtful insight really helped me see some situations in a new light. Her practical approach gave me tips to better cope with the stress that certainly comes with parenting. I have told all my friends about her and will not hesitate to call on her again!"

"I felt so overwhelmed with life in general and parenting only added to my stress. Dyan helped me to organize my priorities and focus on what was truly essential in my life and the lives of my children. She helped me to recognize that my son was struggling as much as I was and that he needed help. Dyan helped put the peices of our life back together: we recovered our relationships and my son got what he needed from me and the school. For the first time in a long time my family looks forward to the future."

Dyan assists families in:

• Gathering information
• Harnessing understanding & learning
• Building, improving, & sustaining relationships
• Stimulating creativity and innovation toward problem solving
• Resolving conflicts
• Creating collaboration
• Tapping into their strengths and resources

Dyan offers coaching services in the following areas:

• general parenting issues (stress, discipline, child development)
• guidance through the IPP/IEP school process
• referral process to mental health services
• parenting your anxious child
• parenting your ADHD child
• parenting your behaviourally challenging child (oppositional defiant)
• parenting a child with learning difficulties
• developing co-parenting plans for divorced families
• adolescents struggling with low self-esteem