Behavior Is a Symptom - Fix The Cause

Regulation, connection, and capacity come first.

You're not failing. You’ve just been handed tools built for labs - not for living rooms, classrooms, or therapy sessions.

If you’re raising or working with a baby who won’t sleep, a 5 year old who flips tables, or a teen dismissed as “too intense”

…the issue isn’t your effort or your child. It’s the mismatch between the child in front of you and the strategies in your hands.

I Lived It. I Got It Wrong. I Learned It. I Got It Right.

As a Parent

I was raising a child in survival mode. I followed the advice - charts, consequences, consistency - but nothing held.

I called shutdowns “defiance.” I thought she just didn’t want to try. When I stopped managing behavior and started understanding her brain, everything changed.

Without real support, I saw where her story could go. I chose a different path - and we finally connected.

As a Professional

I was a pediatric OT trying to help “dysregulated” kids. I used the tools I was taught. When they didn’t work, I blamed myself.

When kids weren’t compliant, I changed the reward. When sessions fell apart, I tried to “stay firm.”

But it wasn’t firmness that helped - it was curiosity. When I stopped chasing compliance and started honoring capacity, the work transformed.

As a Person

I'm an autistic adult in a neurotypical world that wasn’t built for my brain.

I’ve lived shutdowns, sensory overload, and the silent shame of “Why can’t I just hold it together?” Science became my lifeline. Neuroscience is my hyperfocus.

The deeper I studied, the clearer it became: Regulation isn’t taught through charts. It’s supported through connection, compassion, and co-regulation.

Brain-Based Behavior Support for Real Life

I don’t just share what works - I teach how to apply evidence-based strategies to the real children in front of you.

Support for babies to teens - including:

• Autism

• ADHD

• PDA

• Sensory processing

• ODD

• Bipolar disorder

• Neurotypical kids with trauma, anxiety, or inflexibility

This approach blends the art and science of behavior support. It’s not just what research says - it’s how to make it usable:

• In homes

• In schools

• In clinical care

What Makes This Different

Led by an autistic occupational therapist, every strategy is:

• Trauma-informed

• Neurodivergent-affirming

• Neuroscience-driven

• Evidence-based

• Collaborative

• Rooted in lived experience—not just theory

You Want to Be the Adult Who…

• Prevents meltdowns without token systems

• Responds to distress with presence - not panic

• Supports executive function in kids who can’t “just try harder”

• Builds core skills and the scaffolding those skills require

• Offers clear teaching, not just corrections

• Helps autistic, ADHD, PDA, anxious, oppositional, or perfectionistic kids - without burning out

What’s Getting in the Way?

• You were trained to manage behavior—not understand its neurological roots

• You were told consistency and consequences would build skills (they don’t)

• You were never shown how trauma, sensory differences, or developmental gaps affect what’s neurologically possible

• If you’re a parent, you were given advice - but not tools that actually work

Regulation-First Behavior Support

This isn’t behavior management. It’s behavior rebuilding - from the nervous system up.

You’ll learn to:

• Prevent challenging behaviors by recognizing early signs

• Respond in ways that increase felt safety—not shutdown

• Teach replacement behaviors through responsive modeling

• Build foundational brain skills: regulation, flexibility, interoception, impulse control, resilience

• Adapt expectations to stretch capacity - not shatter it

• Accommodate differences without lowering standards

From Surviving to Thriving

These aren’t band-aids. They’re frameworks for long-term capacity.

When we meet children where their brains actually are, we don’t just reduce behavior challenges - we raise kids who are connected, capable, and confident in who they are.

A Site for Real Change

Whether you're a parent, educator, or therapist - this is for you.

Here, you’ll find:

• Continuing education

• Articles

• Downloadable resources

All built to honor your complexity - and theirs. Because transformation isn’t about managing behavior. It’s about rebuilding from the foundation.