Abby and Darcy
We bring a combined 50+ years as educators, 40+ years as coaches, and 30+ years as parents to our partnership.
We are led to this work by a passion for and commitment to children, families, and people yearning to live wholehearted and authentic lives aligned with their values. As educators, our areas and ages of expertise run the gamut from infant through college aged children. Using our multifaceted backgrounds and areas of expertise, we guide and support parents both in their roles as parents as well as in other facets of their lives.
We share an investment in and commitment to community, education, simplicity, clarity, humor, authenticity, and keeping it REAL.
We believe in people. As lifelong educators, family coaches, and parents, we are passionately devoted to helping children, parents, and entire families to feel seen, understood, supported and empowered.
We combine decades of experience and expertise as educators and parents to create unique and powerful offerings that empower parents with tools, resources and skills to remove fear and fantasy from their parenting and learn to parent from facts, values and goals.
Abby is a coach, educator, writer, and mother. As a coach, Abby’s focus is parenting, partnership and personhood. Her practice supports individuals and families in aligning with one another, their goals, and with their values.
Abby Sommerfeld Coaching serves all constellations of families in all seasons of family life. Clients include parents, partners, young adults, and individual adult clients. When not coaching with clients, Abby also runs workshops, parent circles, entrepreneurial mothers circles and writes a monthly newsletter. As a coach, educator, and facilitator, Abby helps people create wholehearted, connected, and dynamic lives. A native of New York, the Bay Area has been her home for over two decades.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband and eleven year old son.
Darcy is a mother, teacher, leadership coach, educator and early childhood advocate. As a coach, Darcy works with educators, schools, and parents to remove fear and fantasy from their practices and instead raise and teach children with respect and dignity.
Executive Director of Cow Hollow School since 2002, Darcy has over 30 years of experience working with teachers, families and children in the Bay Area and around the world. To empower teachers with tools and skills to teach from values, Darcy teaches early childhood and elementary education courses at San Francisco State University. She is a strong advocate for children and specializes in reflective, responsive, collaborative teaching and parenting practices.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband. Her 30 year old daughter lives in Brooklyn.
