Hi, I’m Lisa Krause
B.A. in Psychology
Certifications
Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) – National Council on Family Relations
Certified Family Life Coach (CFLC)
Parent Coaching Certificate – Concordia University, St. Paul
Specialized Training
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) – Texas Christian University
Family Systems Trauma Training – Family Trauma Institute
Court-Ordered Co-Parenting Instructor
Developmental Affirmations & Reflective Dialogue – with Jean Illsley Clarke & UMN Extension
Every parent who walks through the door wants to be a good parent.
Lisa has never met one who didn’t.
Not in over two decades of coaching. Not in twelve years of training other coaches at Concordia University. Not in the hard cases or the easy ones.
Lisa knows that parents don’t need fixing. They need space to think clearly, to see their own strengths and to find the answers that are already closer than they realize.
The goal in coaching is never dependency. It’s confidence. A parent who can find their way back when they lose their footing. Who in time doesn’t need coaching anymore because they’ve found what was already within them.
Lisa doesn’t come in with a formula she runs every parent through. What she has is genuine curiosity about you, your kid, and your family — and a deep conviction that the answers are closer than you think.
She calls her coaching fine-tuning. Not fixing.
Most parenting help starts with what’s wrong. What you should be doing differently. What the research says. What worked for someone else’s family.
Lisa starts with a question. “Tell me about a time when you felt really good about your parenting.” Every parent has one. And inside of those stories, the parent who walked in convinced they were failing starts to see themselves differently.
That’s the foundation. Everything else is built on it.
Lisa doesn’t arrive with a list of things you need to start doing or stop doing. Instead she asks what you’re already close to doing — and helps you do more of that. Because change that comes from inside you lasts.
Her philosophy didn’t come from a textbook. It came from a life.
She studied psychology. Planned to become a therapist. And then life took her somewhere else — into her community, her children’s school, into the complicated and humbling experience of raising children of her own. When she returned to formal study, earning her Master’s in Family Life Education in her forties, she brought all of that with her.
She learned the most important thing early. Not in a classroom.
When Lisa was thirteen her life was chaotic in ways she didn’t have words for yet. A teacher saw something in her and gave her a project — creating the classroom bulletin board. It wasn’t a big thing. But it gave her recognition, creative expression, and a sense of control at a moment when she felt she had very little of either.
She didn’t fully understand what that teacher gave her until years later. It wasn’t just a task. It was being believed in. Being seen as someone capable of figuring something out and doing it well.
That moment lives in how she works with every parent she sits across from. Not handing them answers. Giving them space to find what they’re already capable of.
She carries that understanding forward — along with the legacy of remarkable mentors who taught her that the most powerful thing you can offer another person isn’t an answer. It’s helping them see what’s already working in their own story.
The experience behind the work.
Lisa has been coaching parents for fifteen years. For twelve of those years she has also been training the next generation of parent coaches at Concordia University in St. Paul — because she believes the field matters and the people doing this work deserve rigorous preparation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Family Life Education and is a Certified Family Life Educator — a credential that means her work is grounded in research, family development theory, and professional standards, not just personal experience or intuition.
Lisa is trained in trauma-responsive approaches, family systems thinking, and the kind of work that prepares her to sit with families navigating genuinely hard circumstances.
She is a member of the National Council on Family Relations and coaches in alignment with the standards of the International Coaching Federation.
If this resonates, the next step is simple.
A free 20-minute call. No commitment, no agenda, no pressure. Just a chance to talk about what’s happening in your family and get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit.
Most people who reach out aren’t sure yet. That’s fine. That’s what the call is for.