Tam is deeply committed to helping parents and caregivers to understand and support their anxious and struggling children.

Her background includes working with children/adolescents and young adults in a variety of settings including substance abuse (case management) within a withdrawal and rehabilitation centre, supporting victims of incest and sexual assault, struggles within the family unit and school, and supporting children with ADHD and who are neurodiverse.

Her support is rooted in relational neuroscience and attachment, with a focus on understanding and getting curious about behaviour and offering children the support they need to develop skills that move them out of fear and towards the life they want to be living.

She does this by helping parents gain a deeper understanding of the bi- directional communication between the brain and the body, and developing the relational skills required to be the person/s our child orients to in times of distress, and an ongoing source of support and skill building.

She does this as someone in the trenches with you; she is a parent of a sensitive child, and was that sensitive anxiety prone child herself. Dealing with her own tendency towards anxiety and learning so many skills herself that have supported both herself and her child….coupled with years of training enables her to offer heartfelt, empathic and skilled support to the families she feels so deeply privileged to work with.

Professional Qualifications:

✔️ Social Work/Family Support
✔️ Certified Parenting Support Practitioner/coach
✔️ SBSM- Nervous System and Polyvagal Informed Education, including Early Developmental Trauma, Shock Trauma and Chronic/Toxic Stress
✔️ Mona Delahooke - Beyond Behaviours Polyvagal Informed Training
✔️ Simplicity Parenting - Numerous Care Professionals Training
✔️ Alison Davies - Brain =Behaviours training

​​Areas of Specialisations:
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​✔️ Comprehensive knowledge of the ANS (Autonomic Nervous System)

✔️ Complex understanding of children with vulnerable nervous systems; how this creates anxiety and presents often as baffling and undesirable behaviour.

✔️ Utilising current neuroscience and child development to support parents in reframing their understanding of behaviour and the power of connection and relationship in shifting children from fear to confidence and competence

✔️ Understanding the more sensitive child and their unique vulnerabilities and challenges