Ages 3 to 10ChildrenSupporting healthy beginnings.
Assessment
Developmental assessment, trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, and family-of-origin focussed
Developmental norms read against your family's own expectations, not a single cultural default, eye contact, independence, sleeping arrangements, how a child speaks to adults
Screening for neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and ADHD, with attention to where behaviour has been read as defiance rather than difference
Functional and sensory assessment for daily routines, school and home
Reports for schools, paediatricians and NDIS planning
Therapy & support
Play-based and relational therapy
Parent-child relational work using DDP and PACE, with the Roots vs Routes overlay
Occupational therapy for regulation, sensory needs and daily function
Support for a child noticing difference, and beginning to ask about it, the first questions about skin, hair and where we are from
Racial socialisation for parents: what to say, when, and how young is too young
Programs
Roots vs Routes, a seven-session parenting program for raising grounded children without trading away your culture to do it. Attachment science taught in full, alongside what you already carry.Our model is published, read the full framework
Neuroaffirming and non-behavioural throughout, no reward charts, no consequence ladders
Practical
NDIS clients welcome
School and kinder liaison, including where a child is being read as older or more responsible than they are
Sessions in language where we can, and with interpreters where we cannot
Sessions online, with parents involved as appropriate
Ages 11 to 18AdolescentsNavigating identity, change and connection.
Assessment
ADHD assessment, and autism screening, with referral on to an assessor who can complete the diagnostic process
Assessment where a diagnosis was missed in childhood, or read as behaviour instead, adultification bias named directly
Mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning
Reports for school adjustments, exam provisions and NDIS
Therapy & support
Individual therapy for anxiety, low mood, and school disengagement
Support after racist incidents at school, online, or in sport
Racial and cultural identity work, code-switching, belonging, being read differently
Support around masking, burnout and shutdown
Family sessions where the young person wants them, including the gap between what is expected at home and what is expected outside it
Programs
Roots vs Routes, a seven-session parenting program for raising grounded children without trading away your culture to do it. Attachment science taught in full, alongside what you already carry.Our model is published, read the full framework
Neuroaffirming and non-behavioural throughout, no reward charts, no consequence ladders
Practical
Sessions online, with the young person seen on their own where appropriate
AdultsIndividualPersonal growth, healing and self-understanding.
Assessment
Mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning
Adult ADHD assessment, including late identification and diagnoses missed because the presentation did not match the textbook cohort, and autism screening, with referral on to an assessor who can complete the diagnostic process
Diagnostic clarification and second opinions, including where a previous assessment did not account for cultural context
Medication review and prescribing within nurse practitioner scope
Therapy & support
Individual psychotherapy, short-term or ongoing
Grief, migration loss and ambiguous loss
Intergenerational patterns. What was inherited, and what was survival
Racial trauma and the load of being the first or the only
Practical
Sessions online across Australia
Medicare rebates may apply with a current Mental Health Treatment Plan
Any ageCouplesStrengthening relationships, deepening connection.
Therapy
Couples therapy for communication, conflict and rebuilding trust
Cross-cultural and interfaith relationships, two inheritances, one household
Family-of-origin obligation: what is owed, to whom, and how much of it the relationship can carry
Co-parenting work, together or separated, including which language and traditions the children are raised in
The transition into parenthood, and what it changes, including whose traditions the baby is raised inside
Programs
Roots vs Routes, the seven-session parenting program, taken together as a couple. For partners who were raised differently and are deciding what to pass on.Our model is published, read the full framework
Practical
Held specifically by our founder, who holds Family and Couples Therapist qualifications
FamiliesFamily TherapyIntergenerational & cross cultural family therapy.
Therapy
Whole-family sessions, working with the system, not the identified "problem" member
Intergenerational and cross-cultural work across three generations, often across two countries
The distance between a migrant parent and a child raised here, language, expectation, and what got lost in the move
Parent-child dynamics, including repair after rupture
Caring for ageing parents while raising children
Programs
Roots vs Routes, a seven-session program working through your family's map: what was inherited, what was survival, and what you are choosing to carry forward.Our model is published, read the full framework
Practical
Held specifically by our founder, who holds Family and Couples Therapist qualifications
Reportable and court-ordered sessions available where needed, with cultural context put on the record rather than left out of it
Sessions online, with members joining from different households