Toddler Behaviour Consultant Sydney
Warm, play-based support for meltdowns, boundaries, and the behavioural side of sleep, including genuine experience with neurodivergent children.
About Rachel, Our Behaviour Specialist
Rachel is our behavioural support consultant, helping families with the emotional and behavioural challenges of the toddler and early childhood years. Her approach is warm, respectful and play-based, working with each child as an individual rather than applying rigid behaviour management.
Rachel has genuine experience supporting neurodivergent children and their families, including children with ADHD, autism and sensory processing differences, and brings that understanding to every session.
See Specialist ConsultationsWhat Rachel Helps With
Meltdowns & Outbursts
Understanding what is driving big emotions and giving you calm, connected strategies to help your child through them and build regulation over time.
Power Struggles & Boundaries
Warm, consistent boundaries that give a testing toddler the security they are actually seeking, without the daily battles.
Neurodivergent Support
Respectful, individualised support for children with ADHD, autism and sensory processing differences, and their families.
Our Play-Based Approach
Children learn, regulate and connect through play, and our approach is built around that reality rather than working against it. Instead of rigid rules and consequences, we focus on connection, understanding what a behaviour is communicating, and warm, consistent boundaries that help a child feel secure.
This is particularly important for neurodivergent children, where a one-size-fits-all approach so often fails. We take the time to understand your specific child and family, then build strategies that genuinely fit, respecting who your child is while helping them, and you, through the hard moments.
How Behaviour and Sleep Connect
Behaviour and sleep are deeply linked, and improving one often improves the other. A poorly slept toddler has far less capacity to manage frustration, transitions and big feelings, while the boundary testing and anxiety of the day frequently resurface at bedtime as their own source of disruption.
Where the two are intertwined, we address them together, building the sleep foundation and the behavioural strategies as one plan. That combined approach tends to produce the most complete, lasting improvement for the whole family.
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Signs It Might Be Time for Support
Every toddler has hard days, and not every meltdown needs a specialist. It is worth reaching out, though, if the difficult behaviour feels relentless rather than occasional, if bedtime and sleep have become tangled up with the behaviour, or if you are finding it genuinely hard to know how to respond in the moment.
For families of neurodivergent children, support can make an especially big difference, because so much generic advice simply does not fit. Wherever you are, there is no threshold of struggle you need to reach first. If you would value warm, expert guidance for the behavioural side of the early years, that is reason enough to book a session.
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Get gentle, play-based support for the behavioural challenges of the toddler years, tailored to your child.