Neurodevelopmental Child and Family Support
Psychoeducation and support for families living with neurodiversity and complexity
Online | UK & International Families
Welcome.
You may have arrived here after noticing that there is a difference in the way your child thinks, feels, senses, behaves or copes with day to day life.
Your child may or may not have a diagnosis of Autism or ADHD.
Perhaps you are waiting for a diagnostic assessment.
Maybe you are still deciding whether or not to seek a diagnostic assessment for your child.
Or you have already decided that you do not want your child to be labelled.
But with or without a diagnosis, you feel unsure about how to support your child in everyday life.
Your child fills you with wonder because they are:
- bright
- curious
- sensitive
- kind
- analytical
- creative
- wise
- funny
- energetic
- surprising
- delightful
But also very intense:
- overwhelmed; experience meltdowns similar to younger children or they have shuts down and cannot speak
- sensitive to certain sensory inputs such as noise, lights, textures, smells, taste or touch
- seem physically and emotionally drained and/or irritable after normal day to day activities
- are different in how they behave at school compared with how they are at home
- struggle with transitions
- find it difficult to connect with peers
- find normal day to day life difficult to manage
- are beginning to feel that there is "something wrong" with them
If so, This Is Me was created for families like you.
Raising a child with such complexity often feels isolating and worrying.
We are glad you found us and hope we can help you feel more supported and understood as a family.
What This Is Me offers
This Is Me provides non-diagnostic psychoeducation and relational child and family support. The focus is on understanding, identiy and improving everyday life by:
- helping children and young people understand how they experience the world
- recognising strengths as well as needs
- supporting parents, carers and families to make sense of behaviour from a neurodevelopmental perspective
- navigating routines, rest, sensory needs, friendships and transitions
- supporting confidence, independence and self-advoacy over time
As a specialised and attuned support service, This Is Me evolves as children grow.
Our aim is for everyday family life to feel kinder, clearer and more sustainable - now and in the long term for bright, sensitive, intense neurodivergent children, young people and their families.
Who This Is Me is for
For children and young people who want to:
- understand how their unique brain and body works
- learn about their sensory processing and needs
- recognise their strengths as well as challenges
- express their emotions and communicate their experiences
- learn to advocate for themselves as they grow and understand who they are, what they want and what they need
For parents, carers and families who want to:
- understand their child's neurodivergent experiences and behaviours in accessible, non-pathologising ways
- navigate parenting challenges, stigma, cultural differences around neurodiversity with greater insight, empathy and confidence
- reduce family conflict and overwhelm
- learn how to co-regulate with their child and support self-regulation in their child
- balance rest, sensory needs, interests, family activities and daily routines
- practise self-care when parenting a neurodivergent child
- encourage the development of confidence, independence, friendships and life skills in their children
- be supported through changes in family life and transitions, such as moving school, experiencing adolescence or preparing for university
- support their child in exploring their dreams and ambitions
- advocate for their child to receive the support they deserve and need
How We Work
How We Work
How We Work
We are based in the UK and operate exclusively as an online support and psychoeducation service for bright, sensitive, intense, neurodivergent children, young people and families living in the UK and internationally.
This Is Me offers ongoing, relational child and family support that can adapt over time.
Our work is:
- child-centred and devel
We are based in the UK and operate exclusively as an online support and psychoeducation service for bright, sensitive, intense, neurodivergent children, young people and families living in the UK and internationally.
This Is Me offers ongoing, relational child and family support that can adapt over time.
Our work is:
- child-centred and developmentally paced
- collaborative rather than directive
- informed by psychoeducation and real-life understanding
- responsive to developmental stages, transitions and cultural differences
Our approach is thoughtful, warm, collaborative and paced to suit each child and family. Sessions feel safe, respectful and empowering; with a focus on reducing shame, self-blame, conflict and confusion.
Our service is informed by the child's age, interests, energy levels and communication style. We work flexibly, inclusively and creatively to maintain engagement in sessions.
We may introduce practical resources, visual tools, social stories, or help with planning scripts, routines or strategies where helpful.
our ethos
How We Work
How We Work
This is Me.
I am understood.
I am accepted.
I am cared for.
I am loved.
I am supported.
I can learn, play, grow, change, explore and live a life that is meaningful to me.
This Is Me and I am glad that
This
Is
Me.
our founder
How We Work
our founder
This Is Me is led by Radhika Rajbans, a Neurodevelopmental Child and Family Specialist.
This Is Me was created to offer families something Radhika felt was missing for families with or without a diagnosis of neurodivergence; space to understand, reflect and grow together, with a level of care and support that feels unhurried, containing,
This Is Me is led by Radhika Rajbans, a Neurodevelopmental Child and Family Specialist.
This Is Me was created to offer families something Radhika felt was missing for families with or without a diagnosis of neurodivergence; space to understand, reflect and grow together, with a level of care and support that feels unhurried, containing, empowering and relational.
Radhika is currently completing a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute. She holds an MSc in Child Development Psychology from UCL’s Institute of Education, where her research focused on neurodiversity and education, and has trained in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counselling at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.
Radhika brings extensive experience supporting neurodivergent and twice-exceptional children, young people and their families across a wide range of settings in the UK and internationally with:
- cultural and intergenerational differences around neurodiversity
- international and cross-cultural education systems
- school, university and life transitions
- identity development in neurodivergent children and adolescents
- family stress, relational strain and differing expectations within families
Families describe her approach as calm, thoughtful, warm and deeply attuned. She works with care, creativity and insight, pacing sessions to each child's sensory, relational and communication needs.