Gentle, neuroaffirming support for children, families & care teams
Hi, I’m Cat 👋🏼
I offer neuroaffirming nervous system support for families raising neurodivergent children (autistic, PDA, ADHD and more). Many of the children I work with experience regulation challenges, externalising behaviours, meltdowns, shutdowns and sensory overwhelm.
As an HSP (highly sensitive person) myself, partner to someone with ADHD and the mother of a toddler, I know the terrain of neurodivergence and developing nervous systems from the inside.
I have 23 years’ experience working with children and 9 years in private practice, and take a steady, nervous system regulation approach that supports meaningful change over time.
After many years working with children, I qualified as a primary school teacher…
Support Services in brief
Support for Parents & Caregivers
A compassionate space to debrief and regroup, tailored to your family’s need, goals and capacities.
Collaborative guidance to help reflect and get curious about behaviour, navigate meltdowns and build regulation-centred routines at home and in community.
Care Team Coordination & Mentoring
Mentoring for Support Workers to build understanding and skills for sessions.
Liaising with Allied Health professionals
Strengthening the cohesion of the care team to help everyone understand and respond to behaviour through a shared lens of compassion and co-regulation.
Neuroaffirming Support for Children
With children & young people of any age – a focus on attunement and curiosity, offering signals of relational safety and coregulation.
Over time, a low demand approach helps build capacity in a way that feels natural and sustainable. This supports capacities like communication, flexibility, and engagement.
Professional Mentoring & Supervision
Support for educators, therapists, support workers and more to embed neuroaffirming nervous system regulation techniques into your current practice.
Avoid your own burn-out and accidental mis-attunement with clients through guided reflexive practice.
With gratitude, I acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, people of the unceded land on which I live, work and play ✊🏾