About Reconnecting Families
We’re here to help families make sense of what’s happening and find their way back to each other.
Reconnecting Families supports parents and families who feel stuck, overwhelmed, and unsure about what’s happening with their child and their family.
We work with the whole family system to understand what behaviour is responding to and help families see the deeper dynamics shaping what’s happening in their home.
Most families who find us have already tried counselling, parenting strategies, and support services and still feel like nothing has touched the real issue.
Our work is grounded in lived experience, long-term study, and real-world work with families in crisis. We focus on family dynamics, nervous system regulation, emotional load, and relational patterns.
How We Help Families Reconnect
We help families reconnect by working with the whole family system, not just the child whose behaviour is causing the most concern.
When a child is struggling, their behaviour is almost always responding to something happening in the emotional and relational environment around them. It’s rarely just about discipline, boundaries, or problematic behaviour. It’s about what the child is carrying, what the family is carrying, and what no one has been helped to make sense of yet.
Our work starts with listening deeply to everyone in the family. We take time to understand what life feels like for each person, how everyone is relating to each other, and where tension, fear, exhaustion, or resentment has quietly built up over time.
From there, we help families see the patterns and dynamics that are shaping what’s happening in their home. This often brings a huge sense of relief, because things that once felt random, chaotic, or personal suddenly begin to make sense.
We focus on nervous system regulation, emotional load, and relational safety. When parents feel calmer and more supported, children almost always begin to settle too. As the emotional temperature in the home changes, behaviour naturally starts to shift without force, punishment, or control.
We also work very practically. We help families change the day-to-day ways they speak to each other, respond to conflict, handle emotional moments, and support one another under stress. Small changes in these moments create big changes over time.
Our role is to help bring clarity and steadiness into situations that feel overwhelming and out of control, so families can start to breathe again and find their footing.
This work is about helping families understand what’s really happening, restoring emotional safety, and creating the conditions where connection can come back online naturally.
Our Practitioners
At Reconnecting Families, our work is led by practitioners who come to this field through lived experience, long-term self-study, and years of working with families navigating complex and often overwhelming challenges.
We are here because we have lived inside the realities many families are facing — not just studied them from the outside. Our practitioners bring direct lived experience with ADHD and neurodiversity, emotional and behavioural challenges, family breakdown, high-conflict relationships, trauma and stress, addiction, alternative education pathways, and involvement with youth justice and criminal justice systems.
We also bring lived experience of parenting through crisis, supporting children and teens through extreme emotional states, navigating school refusal and disengagement, and holding families together when systems and services were unable to meet their needs.
Alongside lived experience, our practitioners are lifelong learners who have spent years studying and integrating knowledge from fields such as neuroscience and behaviour, nervous system regulation, family systems, attachment, trauma and stress responses, emotional regulation, and relational development.
Our authority does not come from titles or formal qualifications. It comes from having walked these paths ourselves, having supported others through them, and having developed a deep, practical understanding of what actually shapes behaviour, relationships, and emotional safety in families.
This work is led by people who understand family breakdown, complexity, and reconnection from the inside.
How to Get Started
If you’re not sure what kind of support your family needs, the first step is a simple 15-minute connection call.
This is a no-obligation conversation where you can share what’s been happening in your family and what you’re most worried about right now, in your own words. We’ll listen, ask a few gentle questions, and help you work out whether the kind of support we offer feels like a good fit for your situation.
There’s no pressure to commit to anything, and no expectation that you have to make a decision on the call.
If it feels helpful, we can talk about what next steps might look like. If not, you’ll still leave the conversation with more clarity than you had before.
To book a 15-minute connection call, click the button below or send us a message using the contact form.