Parental Counselling

You've become the expert on things you never expected to know — IEPs, educational psychologists, speech therapists, school accommodations, sensory diets. You've sat in meetings where your child was discussed in clinical language and walked out feeling more lost than when you walked in. You love your child fiercely. But some days, you don't recognise your family life — or yourself. This page is for you. Not your child. You.

Parents who work with me say the same thing: "I didn't realise how much I needed someone who gets it."

Not a friend who means well but doesn't understand. Not a family member who thinks you're overreacting. Not a professional who sees your child for 45 minutes and then moves on. Someone who works with children like yours every day, who has sat in the meetings you're dreading, who has seen the meltdowns and the breakthroughs, and who can say with confidence: "This is hard, and you are not failing."

What changes is practical. You get strategies that actually work in your house — not in a textbook. Morning routines that hold. Co-regulation techniques for the moments of crisis. Scripts for conversations with schools that get results. Clarity on what a diagnosis means, what to do next, and what to ignore.

But what changes most is how you feel. The guilt eases. The isolation shrinks. You stop measuring yourself against parents who don't have your reality. You start trusting your own instincts again — because someone has finally validated them.

This isn't therapy in the traditional sense. It's coaching, guidance, and skilled support from someone who understands your child's world because I work in it every day.

We cover whatever you need most. For some parents, that's making sense of a new diagnosis — understanding what it means, which interventions are evidence-based, and how to build the right professional team around your family. For others, it's managing behaviour at home that feels unmanageable — we explore what's driving it, what your child is communicating, and we develop strategies that reduce conflict and rebuild connection.

If school is the pressure point, I help you navigate it. I can help you understand your child's rights, prepare for meetings, interpret reports from educational psychologists, communicate effectively with teachers and learning support teams, and if you want, attend meetings alongside you to make sure your child's needs are clearly heard.

If your other children are feeling the weight — the attention they're not getting, the resentment that sometimes builds — we talk about that too. I offer guidance on age-appropriate conversations with siblings and strategies for ensuring every child in your family feels seen.

And sometimes, what you need most is simply a space to say the things you can't say anywhere else. The exhaustion. The fear about the future. The moments of resentment you feel guilty for. The love that's tangled up in all of it. I hold that space without judgement, without platitudes, and without pity.

Sessions can be in person or virtual. They fit around your life — not the other way around.

We start where you are. Sometimes that's a specific crisis — a school meeting next week, a behaviour that's escalating, a decision you need to make. Sometimes it's a feeling you can't shake and need to talk through with someone who understands the territory.

I listen first. Then we work together — mapping out what's happening, identifying what's driving it, and building a plan. Every session ends with something concrete: a strategy to try, a conversation to have, a next step that feels manageable.

Between sessions, I'm available on WhatsApp for the quick questions that come up in real life — "the school just called, what do I say?" or "we had a breakthrough this morning, wanted you to know." This isn't a clinical relationship with rigid boundaries. It's a partnership.

Is this the right fit?