What We Provide
Our work is rooted in behaviour as an indicator of something that needs to be resolved, as opposed to the behaviour itself needing to be resolved. This means we’re working with the root cause of the behaviour, which allows us to understand a person’s experience and support them to resolve distress, lagging skills, unmet needs, and other factors. This in turn supports the person to build meaningful connections, and the behaviours they or the people around them are worried about tend to fall away with no external motivation, rewards, or punishments required.
This process empowers our clients and their families to make change on a deeper level that is in line with support needs being met, skills being developed, improved wellbeing, and reduced daily distress. The research shows that this approach is both neurodiversity affirming and trauma-informed, as well as being effective over the long-term. This is reflected in the results we see with our clients.
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How these supports look in practice will be different for each client. Some clients use games and play in collaboration with their practitioner to work on developing skills and building relationships. Other clients will talk with their practitioner, using reflection and talk-based therapies to meet their goals. Other clients need their parents to chat to their practitioner for them, and this might look like the practitioner supporting caregivers to ‘scaffold’ the right supports around the client. Sometimes an assessment is needed to help everyone around the client understand how their brain works and how to support them best. Everyone is different, and everyone has different needs. This means our supports need to be very tailored to each client to make sure everyone gets the right service for them. We can see clients in the office, at home, at school, or even at a community venue such as a park.
