Founding Director of Parent Tree Academy
Certified HRDA Trainer | Psychologist | Parent Coach | Mindset Coach
Arlette Shohmelian is a Psychologist, Certified HRDA Trainer, and Mindset & Parent Coach with over 25 years of experience in education, counselling, and professional development. She has held senior leadership positions, including Deputy Head of a private school in Cyprus, where she played a key role in establishing wellbeing and pastoral care systems to support students, families, and staff.
Arlette’s mission is to empower individuals and organisations to build emotional intelligence, resilience, and conscious, meaningful relationships at home, in schools, and in the workplace.
Arlette collaborates with leading organisations and schools in Cyprus and internationally. She collaborates with the HR wellbeing team at PwC Cyprus, offering one-to-one coaching, webinars, and personalised parent support to help professionals manage stress, strengthen emotional resilience, and create balance between work and family life without guilt or burnout.
She also works closely with schools such as the International School of Nicosia to design and run wellbeing departments, pastoral care systems, teacher training, and parent programmes, cultivating psychological safety, emotional literacy, and positive culture across school communities.
As an HRDA-Certified Trainer, Arlette designs customised workplace training solutions for schools and companies across multiple sectors. Her programmes include emotional intelligence, stress management, leadership development, team building, communication skills, and workplace wellbeing.
Arlette also trains school leaders and educators internationally through Erasmus+, supporting participants from more than 25 European countries in emotional well-being, inclusive education, and conscious school leadership.
Private Practice & Coaching
Through her private practice and global coaching programmes, Arlette supports parents, teachers, teens, and professionals in building greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and inner confidence.
Her signature parenting programme, Stop Reacting and Start Responding, has helped parents worldwide understand and meet their children's emotional needs while creating calm, connection, and consistency at home.
She is also the creator of the popular Udemy e-course “From Crazy to Calm: The Parent Empowering Program,” which helps parents develop emotional awareness, self-regulation, and joyful parenting.
For deeper inner transformation, Arlette created her signature mindset online coaching programme, Empowering Transformation: Re-program Your Mind for a Happier & Fulfilled You. It combines weekly coaching guidance, mindset tools, and 12 video trainings with integration worksheets to help individuals shift beliefs, strengthen emotional resilience, and create lasting inner change. The programme is offered both as a guided mentorship experience and as a self-paced e-course for those who prefer to grow at their own pace.
Women Empowerment Group
In Cyprus, Arlette leads a weekly women’s empowerment circle, Magnetic Ladies: Empowerment Through Connection, offering a safe, nurturing space for women to reconnect with their voice, self-worth, and inner power.
A Personal Note
A mother of two daughters, Arlette brings warmth, authenticity, and deep psychological insight to her work. Her approach gently guides parents, teens, and professionals to reconnect with themselves, understand their emotional world, and move toward a life grounded in confidence, clarity, compassion, and inner peace.
If I could describe my life’s purpose in one sentence, it would be this:
To help people feel emotionally safe, deeply understood, and empowered to live with calm, clarity, and connection.
My journey into psychology and parent coaching began long before degrees, certificates, or titles.
It began in childhood, quietly observing emotions, feeling deeply, and wondering why people hurt, love, react, and sometimes lose themselves along the way.
From early on, I carried a truth in my heart:
When we understand our inner world, our outer world transforms.
That knowing has guided every step of my path.
For over 25 years, I have worked in education, counselling, and leadership, walking alongside families, educators, teens, and professionals as they navigated growth, challenge, and moments of profound transformation. Working with clients internationally opened my heart even further and showed me the beautiful complexity of human emotions across cultures and communities.
I witnessed so much:
Parents are doing their best, yet feeling stretched thin.
Children carrying emotions they didn’t yet have words for.
Teachers pour into others while silently struggling themselves.
Leaders and working parents strive to balance ambition, family, and well-being.
And I realised something powerful:
People don’t need to be “fixed.” They need to be seen, heard, and supported.
Most of us need space to feel, guidance to understand ourselves, and tools to navigate our emotional world.
So I dedicated myself to this mission:
Building wellbeing systems in schools.
Training and emotionally supporting teachers.
Coaching leaders and working parents.
Helping children feel understood.
And guiding families and individuals toward emotional resilience, inner peace, and conscious connection.
Through workshops, retreats, online programs, and one-to-one coaching, I help people quiet the noise inside, break unhelpful patterns, and step into a life grounded in self-awareness, love, and emotional strength.
As a woman, I deeply understand the importance of sisterhood, the need for genuine female friendships and uplifting connections. This inspired me to create a supportive empowerment circle for women of all ages, where women can connect, rise, and rediscover their inner power.
But beyond the titles and achievements, I am simply a woman who understands what it feels like to juggle it all.
I am a mother of two daughters, my greatest teachers.
Motherhood humbled me.
Softened me.
Strengthened me.
It taught me that parenting isn't about perfection; it is about presence, connection, and growing alongside our children.
Today, through my signature coaching programs, self-paced e-courses, teacher trainings, corporate wellbeing programmes, and transformational retreats, I support parents, educators, teens, and professionals in reconnecting with themselves, cultivating calm, and showing up with clarity, compassion, and confidence both at home and in life.
Real change begins the moment you choose awareness over reaction, compassion over criticism, and courage over comfort.
Everything you need to grow, heal, and thrive already lives within you. I am here to help you rediscover it with grace, intention, and love.
Wherever you are right now, overwhelmed, hopeful, tired, curious, or longing for change, you are not alone.
Your journey doesn’t need perfection. It needs compassion, awareness, and gentle courage.
You already have what you need inside you. I am here to walk beside you, remind you of your strength, and help you return home to yourself.
You don’t need to do it alone. I am here to walk beside you as you reconnect with who you truly are.
I guide parents, educators, and professionals to strengthen their mindset and resilience so they can create calm, connected, and emotionally intelligent environments at home, at work, and within themselves.
Through my signature coaching programs, online and onsite trainings, e-courses, retreats, and one-to-one sessions, I empower individuals and teams to turn stress and reactivity into emotional balance, clarity, and genuine connection.
📩 Let’s connect and discover what support fits your journey.
arlette@parenttree.org
Or Email Arlette at arlette@parenttree.org