Dr. Jack Stoltzfus – America’s Launch Coach™
Dr. Stoltzfus’ mission is to provide information, education, guidance, and resources to parents of young adults struggling to launch their young adults into self-sufficient and responsible adulthood while maintaining a caring bond with them. More today than ever, parents of young adults are trying to determine the best approach to aiding their young adults in their challenges of identity, independence, and intimacy without contributing to their dependency or alienation.
Over fifty percent of 18-29-year-olds live with one or both parents; some of these kids are stuck and not moving toward independence. Another group of young people has left home, but 1 out of 4 have cut off communication with their parents for, on average, four months; some will never reconnect. Both of these situations represent failures to launch. When there is a failure to launch, parents and young adults suffer. You will find in the materials on this website and specifically his latest book, The Parent’s Launch Code: Loving and Letting Go of Our Adult Children, a roadmap to a successful launch of your young adult.
Over Thirty-five Years of Experience with Helping Young Adults Leave the Nest
For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Stoltzfus has worked with parents and their young adult children within the context of a chemical dependency treatment program, an inpatient mental health facility, a Child Guidance Clinic, a youth service agency, and a private practice. Initially, Dr. Stoltzfus was trained as a marriage and family therapist who worked with parents and their adolescent children. Now, his practice is focused on parents of emerging adults, such as 18-29-year-olds. He will work with these families, the parents, or the young adults, depending on the best approach and receptivity.
Navigating the Challenging Path of Letting Go
In his coaching practice, he has found that many of today’s parents of young adults find navigating the letting-go process more complicated and challenging than their launch into independence. Dr. Stoltzfus created this website to provide support, resources, helpful guidance, and a forum for parents to exchange ideas on effectively letting go.
Get to Know Dr. Jack Stoltzfus
Dr. Jack Stoltzfus is a licensed psychologist in Minnesota and a parent coach for parents with adult children. He has two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. His research and dissertation focused on defining and measuring the healthy emotional separation of adolescents from their parents. Also, within this study, Dr. Stoltzfus identified behaviors of parents of normal adolescents that most contributed to this healthy separation process. He has been a certified marriage and family therapist and a licensed chemical dependency counselor. He is a member of the American Psychology Association, The American Family Therapy Academy, and is recognized as one of America’s Top Doctors.
He has been married for over forty years and has three grown and married young adult children. He and his wife also have eleven grandchildren.
What Others Say Dr. Jack Stoltzfus
“For any parent who feels as though the old rules don’t apply- they don’t! Jack offers a refreshing new roadmap in how to engage in healthy conversations and parenting tips that will enhance your relationships and restore your faith in yourself and your young adults.
Jack’s passion for deepening healthy parent/child relationships with millennials engages parents with research and exercises that are simple, fun, insightful and collaborative.”
-Nancy Herbst, M.Ed., Spiritual Director
“Jack Stoltzfus, Ph.D., combines his depth of clinical training with a lifelong passion to help parents and their young adult children get it right. In this time when our kids seem so different than we were, and we want to do it differently than our parents did, Dr. Stoltzfus masterfully offers ‘on-the-nose’ insights to deepen understanding, and practical, easy to use tools to ensure we skillfully help launch our young adults, while maintaining that base of unconditional love. No easy task and he does it beautifully!”
-Katherine M. Curran, Ph.D., coach and leadership consultant
Read more review of Dr. Stoltzfus on his Wellness.com profile.
Connect with Dr. Jack Stoltzfus – America’s Launch Coach
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