Child Therapy and Therapeutic Support for Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
Transform your parenting and your child’s support system by finding the strategies that are brain-based, authentic to you, and sustainable long-term.
Join me February 22nd 2024 at 6:30 online for a parent mastermind meetup!
Together we will pool our collective insights to navigate the unique challenges of winter with highly sensitve, complex or neurodivergent children. Explore key topics such as
navigating changes in routine during holidays
school burnout/advocacy in school
winter weather effects on sensory needs
dysregulation and access to exercise
parent burnout
Share experiences, and co-create solutions with an expert in the field as the facilitator.
Raising a healthy, thriving, neurodivergent child is not easy, but it’s not impossible.
Parents of neurodivergent kids are struggling! We feel stuck, overwhelmed, and guilty as we fight to help our kids through:
transitions
self-advocacy at school, in the community, and with friends
struggles with communication
anxiety and mental health concerns.
dysregulation, executive function challenges, sleep and feeding problems
I know as a parent and as a professional in the field what this is like, and I have a road-map for you.
Let’s work together.
Interested in getting support either as a parent of for you child? Fill out some info and I will be in touch shortly! I can't wait to hear from you!
We need solutions that account for our child’s relational, regulatory, and developmental needs. You need a plan, and it needs to be the right plan.
Our kids are struggling more than ever, and parents are often at a loss for how to help them. When you feel confused, when your strategies don’t work, and when your child is just completely at a loss, you need a person to go to and a plan to fall back on for reassurance.
Our kids are complex, so I’m not here to give you a quick fix. I’m here to help you craft a plan using brain-based strategies that will be your life raft throughout your parenting journey. I’m here to hold your hand so you have the stamina and confidence to keep holding your child’s hand.
Committing to working with Rebekah is more than just another stressful task. It’s a relationship with a plan that can help you help your child.
“Just imagine if if you had someone to go to each time you were recovering from handling a tough meltdown, a confusing behavior, or a transition with your kid that left you lost and at the end of your patience.”
Start Here: The First Resource I Ever Created when I started this community. Learn how to identify which stress response state your child is in, based on neuroscience.
Free Resource: Polyvagal Regulation Chart for Parents
In therapy and in parent support group, we use 3 elements to stay on track during the toughest parenting challenges:
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Education
Parents like us are constantly navigating difficulty with sleeping, feeding, bedtime, transitions, as well as getting ready in the morning, managing emotions, separation anxiety and more. Without specialized education about individual differences in the way the brain and body perceive and react to sensory and emotional information, you will continue to feel stuck and fearful that your child is not set up for success.
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Connection
Without connection, parents continue to feel trapped by unrealistic expectations, guilty for feeling like you’re continuing to “fail” their child, and confused by the lack of helpful strategies found in mainstream parenting advice.
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Individualized Strategies
Parents of kids who are Autistic, Neurodivergent, or Highly Sensitive find themselves without a plan that actually affirms their child. When you understand your child’s differences, you can make a better plan for how to support their growth and regulation. The individualized support and online community helps you create a plan that you feel confident in.
Parents just want their children to be able to thrive, and it’s heartbreaking and exhausting when we feel like nothing seems to help
Without education, you’ll keep trying to apply parenting strategies that don’t work for your child. Without connection with experts and parents like you, you will continue to blow up, shame yourself, or in your confusion and loneliness, blame your child.
Parents of neurodivergent kids are battling burnout and isolation, and you are determined to learn how to truly support their child and understand their complex needs.
When you work with me, you learn how to parent the child you have, not the child the world thinks you should have.
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You don’t have to continue the same patterns with your child. If they aren’t working, we can find a solution.
For decades parents would reach out to me for therapy at their lowest points—they’d been trying to figure out why their child was struggling with fears, regulation, self-esteem, difficulty sleeping, anxieties, or extreme sensitivity, and are at the place either blaming themselves, fearful that something is “wrong” with their child, or both. But, there’s often a different reason. In addition to therapeutic work, there were always life-changing top action-items and starting points that helped these parents craft an environment that truly nurtures your child based on their unique regulation challenges and needs, and creates so much more calm, confidence, and growth.
Why does it feel like I’m failing?
It’s because the world doesn’t know how to support neurodivergent kids and parents! Do you feel like you’re constantly awash in your child’s needs, confusing behaviors, or in the judgement of other parents? I’m so glad you found me—chances are, you’re here because you’re a parent who knows that the typical strategies just don’t work for your kid, and you're finally ready to go deep, learn what's really going on underneath tough behaviors, and grow your confidence in yourself and in your relationship with your child.
I’ve been there personally, too. And, as a licensed therapist and registered Play Therapist I’ve been helping parents and children navigate the most difficult of situations for over a decade using a brain-based and attachment-focused therapeutic approach . But now, too many of us are struggling to understand our intense, neurodivergent, brilliant, and highly sensitive kids. And the world wants us to blame ourselves and our own kids. I want as many parents as possible to be able to join me in learning more about themselves, finding confidence in the chaos of parenting a differently wired, sensitive kid, and ultimately re-delighting in your amazing, quirky, and absolutely gorgeously unique child.
Try a Free Support First! Take What You Need!
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Join the Waitlist and get contact and connection with Rebekah in the meantime!
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Free Guide for Making Neuro-Affirming Family Rules
Tired of fights, negotiations, and doubting whether the rules you set are even reasonable? The rules don’t seem to apply to most neurodivergent kids, but you can still find peace and confidence! Wondering if you’re asking too much, or frustrated that it feels like you get NO respect and no one seems to listen to you anyways? In this guide I take you deep, connect you with your true values, and get you thinking about what your kid needs with regards to rules, consistency, and expectations.
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Free Guide: Help My Child Manage Anxiety
START HERE! SO many of our kids experience anxiety, and YOU CAN HELP. Does your child often seem shy and fearful around new people? What about sticky thoughts, compulsions, fear of separation specific fears, perhaps of bugs, flying objects, loud sounds, or new situations? Or do you have a baby who has trouble sleeping, can’t be put down, or seems like they are constantly crying?
Many children experience persistent, specific fears and worries that impact their ability to complete daily tasks, perform in school, or have thriving peer relationships. This checklist is based on my compassionate, neuro-affirming play-based model tailored to your child’s needs
If you are parenting a child with multiple diagnoses, a complex medical history, or overall neurodivergence, you’re giving most of yourself to just survivng each day. Your identity, close relationships, partnership, friends, and jobs suffer due to the unique demands this brings.
Try a free class to see if I’m a good fit for you.
Even pre-recorded classes are relationship-based. You’ll get to know me AND learn something—both are important.
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