Parenting a Neurodivergent child can feel both deeply meaningful and, at times, incredibly complex. Many parents find themselves holding questions and uncertainty, wanting space to pause, talk things through, and make sense of what has been happening for their child and family.
Parent support sessions offer a gentle space to reflect, share context, and explore your child’s experience through a neuroaffirming and relational lens. These conversations are not about fixing your child or finding the “right” strategies, but about deepening understanding, untangling assumptions, and considering supportive ways forward that feel authentic for your child and your family.
While I don’t operate a waiting list for play therapy, parent sessions can be supportive in their own right. They may also help me understand whether therapy feels like the right fit should availability arise in the future.
How I Can Help
Parents arrive at support in many different ways. Some come with clear questions or concerns, while others are simply noticing that something doesn’t quite make sense and are looking for space to talk things through. You might be early in your understanding of Neurodivergence, already navigating diagnoses or school challenges, or somewhere in between. There is no “right” place to begin.
As a Neurodivergent therapist and parent myself, I bring both professional and lived experience into these conversations. This doesn’t mean I hold answers about your child, but it does mean I understand how layered parenting can feel when you are trying to advocate, make decisions, respond to others’ opinions, and stay connected to your child at the same time. Together, we can explore behaviours or situations that feel confusing, making sense of what might be going on beneath the surface and reflecting on what may feel supportive for your child and family.
I offer support in the following areas:
- Making sense of distress, behaviour, or emotional intensity: Exploring what may be happening beneath the surface so behaviours can be understood within context rather than viewed in isolation.
- Understanding sensory experiences and nervous system responses: Reflecting on how sensory differences and nervous system states can shape your child’s reactions, energy levels, and capacity day to day.
- Navigating school challenges and systemic expectations: Creating space to think through school experiences, advocacy, and the tensions that can arise between your child’s needs and external demands.
- Reflecting on identity, masking, or burnout: Gently considering how identity, masking, and energy depletion may be showing up for your child and what support might look like in response.
- Finding ways to support your child’s needs while also holding your own: Thinking together about how to respond to your child’s needs while also recognising your own capacity, wellbeing, and limits as a parent.
What Parents Often Take From Parent Support
These are some of the experiences parents have spoken about taking from this space:
- A more compassionate understanding of their child: Many parents describe leaving sessions with a broader perspective on behaviour and distress, feeling less alone in making sense of their child’s experiences.
- Greater steadiness in their instincts: Having space to reflect can help parents feel more confident in trusting their observations and navigating conflicting opinions or advice.
- A sense of shared understanding and perspective: Talking things through can bring clarity and relief when situations feel tangled, helping parents hold complexity with a little more ease.
- Small shifts that create more ease at home or school: Sometimes understanding alone leads to gentle adjustments that reduce pressure or misunderstanding across environments.
- Space for their own experience to be acknowledged: Parents often value having a place where their emotional experience is recognised alongside their child’s, without judgement or expectation.
Parent support sessions offer a space to pause, reflect, and make sense of what may be unfolding for your child and family. Whether you arrive with specific questions or simply a sense that you would like space to talk things through, these conversations are shaped by your context and pace.
If this feels like something that might be helpful, you’re very welcome to view available parent support appointments below.
