About
Our Mission: We’re here for the parent, not the parenting.
When you’re raising small children, it’s easy to forget that you’re still a whole person — tired, stretched, still learning, and deserving of support.
We created this space because we know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or quietly depleted while showing up for the people you love. We’ve been there — in the noise, the tenderness, the intensity of it all.
At A Little Space for Parents, our mission is to make high-quality coaching and evidence-based tools accessible to parents in the midst of real life.
We translate the tools used by top coaches and leaders — presence, emotional regulation, awareness of yourself, directing your attention and holding a relational field — into short, practical micro-tools that help parents feel calm, connected, and capable, even on the hardest days. By combining neuroscience, professional coaching, and lived experience, we create space for parents to reset, reflect, and return to themselves — one small moment at a time
Our tools aren’t advice. They’re not techniques for getting your child to nap or listen. They’re small, practical supports designed for you — the adult at the center of it all — to help you come back to yourself in the middle of a busy day.
How This Began
A Little Space for Parents grew out of both lived experience and years of professional practice. Jon came to this work after becoming a full-time parent — moving countries, caring for a newborn and a toddler, and realizing that even with a background in neuroscience and health, he needed new skills to be the parent he wanted to be. Amy brought decades of high-level coaching experience, helping people lead, communicate, and thrive under pressure. Together, we saw how the same tools that support leaders could transform the experience of parenting — they just needed to be made simple, human, and usable in the middle of real life.
About Amy
Amy Kohut, PCC is a co-founder of A Little Space for Parents and an executive coach with over 25 years of experience helping people lead, communicate, and thrive under pressure. After decades of working with leaders in business, education, and healthcare, Amy brings the same level of skill and insight to one of life’s most demanding roles — being a parent.
Amy’s approach is grounded, compassionate, and practical. She helps people slow down enough to notice what’s really happening, build emotional awareness, and reconnect with their own steadiness — even when life feels chaotic.
Recent work includes leadership coaching at Cornell University’s Executive MBA programs; teaching with the Presence-Based Coaching faculty; and coaching individuals and teams within organizations such as Amazon and the Intelligence community in Washington DC. She has Secret clearance.
At A Little Space for Parents, Amy brings the art and science of high-performance coaching to everyday parenting — translating powerful leadership tools into simple, human practices that help parents feel more resourced, centered, and capable in the middle of it all.
About Jon
Jon Cheetham, VetMB PhD DipACVS, is a co-founder of A Little Space for Parents and a father of two young children. In one extraordinary year, he left his career, became a full-time dad, moved country (and continents) and welcomed a new baby — all while trying to show up as the kind of parent he wanted to be. It was harder than he expected.
Through working with Amy, Jon discovered how coaching tools— presence, emotional regulation, self-awareness and holding a relational field — could be adapted to the everyday intensity of parenting. That experience became the seed for A Little Space for Parents: a place where parents can access the same powerful skills used by senior leaders, translated into short, practical micro-tools for real life with small children.
Before co-founding A Little Space for Parents, Jon was a surgeon and Associate Professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine; raised over $10M in research funding and ran a lab aiming to understand the immune response to peripheral nerve injury. He was also an equine surgeon, focusing on the problems of the upper airway. He now uses his surgical triangulation skills to extract precious toys from the back of radiators.
He brings that same curiosity and evidence-based mindset to the emotional realities of parenthood — helping make complex ideas about calm, resilience, and recovery feel simple and doable in everyday life.