My approach involves looking at each client and their family unit holistically. This will look different for each person I work with but can include:

• Attachment and carer/parenting support, including sleep and behaviour guidance support which is truly respectful and attachment based. My work in this space is based on biological and developmental norms without sleep training or punitive approaches.

• Nutritional support is a key part of supporting behavioural, emotional and physical challenges. I use a functional nutrition approach to identifying root causes of the presenting concerns and address these through a ‘food first’ approach. This may include functional testing if indicated and desired by the family.

• Supporting families with physical health concerns such as eczema, constipation or other digestive symptoms, allergies and food/environmental sensitivities, and autoimmunity. I approach this with a focus on healing the gut and other systems throughout the body such as the elimination pathways, nutrient levels, immune function, and nervous system. I have found physical health symptoms are often present in the population of children I work with and they exist alongside the emotional and behavioural symptoms (for good reason, as we will explore together!)

• Psychological and emotional support to understand, process, and develop strategies to manage behaviours and emotions. I use a combination of internal ‘terrain’ work and therapeutic modalities to meet the individuals needs in this space.

• Working with families, individuals and couples to explore communication, parenting, relationships and re-parenting work. I am qualified as a Social Work therapist and my approach guided by my study of modalities such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems therapy, Gottman’s couples therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Polyvagal theory, Somatic processing, Psychoneuroimmunology and Attachment theory.