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For parents & carers

Parent Capacity Building

Coaching for parents and carers, so the strategies that work in a therapy session also work at 7am on a school morning.

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You’re with your child far more than we ever will be

An hour a week with a therapist is an hour. The other 167 are yours: the school run, the supermarket, the bath, the bedtime. That’s where change happens.

Parent capacity building is therapy aimed at you rather than at your child. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because you’re the one who’s there.

What this looks like

Sessions are practical and specific to your family. We might:

  • Unpick a routine that keeps falling apart and rebuild it a step at a time
  • Work out what’s underneath a behaviour that has been baffling everyone
  • Practise strategies together, so you’ve done it once before you do it alone
  • Adjust the setup of your home, like the bathroom stool or the morning basket
  • Help you explain your child’s needs to a teacher, a grandparent, a sports coach
  • Build your confidence for the meetings where you’re outnumbered

Who it suits

  • Parents who’ve been given strategies that don’t survive contact with real life
  • Families where one routine, whether it’s mornings, mealtimes or bedtime, is dominating everything
  • Carers wanting to understand the why behind what they’re seeing
  • Parents preparing for a school transition, a new sibling, or a plan review
  • Families further out, or anyone who finds telehealth easier than travelling

What we won’t do

We won’t hand you a laminated behaviour chart and wish you luck. We won’t suggest anything that needs an hour a day you don’t have. And we won’t pretend there’s a version of parenting without hard days.

Strategies get built around the family you are: your work hours, your housing, your other kids, your own sensory needs. If it doesn’t fit your life, it isn’t a strategy, it’s homework.

Funding

Parent capacity building is a legitimate use of NDIS funding under capacity building supports, and is frequently written into plans for exactly this purpose. We are not an NDIS-registered provider, so we can work with self-managed and plan-managed funding but not agency-managed plans. If you’re unsure whether your plan covers it, ask us. We’ll tell you straight, and we can put the rationale in writing for your plan manager. Rates are on the fees and funding page.