WELCOME

The mainstream system for families attempting to access support for their children with neurodiverse needs is under funded, under educated and full of long wait times.  This can feel relentlessly frustrating when you are concerned about a child's behaviour and mental health (I know because I am a mum too on these wait lists).  While you're waiting on these long wait lists you can still access help and support, with no waitlist.

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I provide realistic and affordable support to SEND families, aiming to reduce isolation, discrimination, misconceptions and parental judgement or criticism. ​I specialise in ASD/ADHD/PDA Behaviour & Family Support.

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I am not like other SEND advocates.  

While many private SEND advocates focus on securing educational provision and fight challenging local authority systems.  SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE helps families develop the practical behaviour strategies, parental confidence and neurodiversity understandings needed to support your child at home, in school and throughout life.  We help families live successfully with neurodivergence every day, whether the mainstream system helps or not.

Example 1: If your child is masking all day and melting down at home, refuses school, struggles with demands or family life feels like a constant crisis, SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE can help you understand how to navigate school refusal and develop practical behavioural strategies that work in the real world.

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Example 2: SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE won't attend the upcoming school meeting to fight for your rights because we will provide you with the knowledge, confidence and reports to do this for yourself.  In the long term this will save so much money, time and anxiety because if you have a child with PDA/ASD or ASD the likelihood is you will have many meetings ahead of you. Better to empower yourself now than to hold onto anxiety every time another meeting arises.

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Example 3:  Perhaps you feel that your child has controlling behaviours.  Perhaps the impact of burnout and masking in school is creating violence and dis-regulation after school.  Perhaps you feel like every boundary you set is crossed.  Maybe you are met with aggression and trashed rooms.  Perhaps you aren't able to leave the house because your child wants to stay indoors all day.  SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE will discuss with you everything you have already tried and share behaviour strategies with you that can improve these behaviours at home.  

At SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE we excel in the following areas: 

Understanding the child (from their perspective and yours).

Reducing demands and distress (on children and parents).

 Strengthening connection (within the whole family, including siblings).

Build at home practical behaviour support strategies.

Improve school collaboration and meeting needs.

Improve confidence when managing and navigating a discriminatory mainstream system.

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What support is best?  My advice is to join those diagnosis wait lists and then address the daily challenges. It's those daily challenges that are the most important, the most draining and will have the most impact on the future. The primary focus should be the authentic experiences of parenting children with neurodiversity (including everything that comes with it, such as isolation, parental stigma, family breakdowns, sibling difficulties, and career loss, to name a few), rather than relying on textbook family support and mainstream guidance. These two aspects are entirely different. The gap between these understandings is vast, and within that gap lies the misunderstandings, lack of support, and lack of education on the impact of parenting neurodiverse children.  SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE works exactly in this gap for all the right reasons. Finally, support that sees and meets the needs of SEND families!.

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I offer 1:1 bespoke support either via email/zoom/telephone.  Created by a qualified professional and mum that got fed up of waiting for CAMHs. 

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What next?...

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Sign up by clicking the link above (its free) to receive regular updates on all things neuro-spicy; From parenting support (without the judgement) to working alongside challenging behaviours and how to change them.  ​​​​​

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Use the contact me page and send me an email of your concerns, worries , mainstream battles and I will send you back a FREE plan of action, offering advice on each of your concerns.  

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