Resilience Skills Training, Counselling and Coaching for Neurodiverse Families
Resilience skills for real life.
For People
Diagnosed and wanting practical skills, not more theory.
Supporting someone else and not knowing how to help.
Confused about a diagnosis, would it help or not?
Experiencing conflict in relationships, the same fights on repeat.
You do not need a diagnosis, a label or permission to be here. All brains are Welcome.
Choose your support
Same program. Choose your level of support.
10 Resilience Skills. Upgrade to the Transformation Package anytime.
Self-Paced learning modules, 5 coaching sessions, weekly facilitated network sessions and newsletter. Includes everything in Self-Paced option. Complete 5-session program. All recorded teaching modules. Complete Participant Guide. Worksheets and session notes.
One-to-one Counselling or Coaching is available separately with either option.
Understand your brain.
Build skills that work for you.
My Brain Buddy is a practical, neurodiversity-affirming resilience skills program for people and families navigating neurodiversity, with or without a formal diagnosis.
Across 10 skills, you’ll learn to understand what is happening underneath stress and overwhelm, manage changing nervous system states, strengthen relationships, make clearer decisions and advocate for what matters most.
This isn’t about fixing a brain or becoming better at pushing through. You don’t need to try harder.
It’s about understanding your nervous system, recognising what helps and building the skills to live differently.
Self-Paced | Learn the skills
The Self-Paced Program gives you the complete My Brain Buddy Resilience Skills Training Program.
Work through all 12 pre-recorded modules in your own time, with the Worksheets and Session Notes to support your learning.
You’ll build a practical understanding of your brain, recognise patterns that may have been difficult to make sense and learn resilience skills you can begin applying in everyday life.
A complete program for people who are ready to learn, reflect and practise independently.
Transformation Package | Put the skills to work in your life
The Transformation Package is a more personalised and supported experience.
You begin with the same 10 resilience skills, then deep dive into what they mean for you, your relationships and your unique situation.
With small-group coaching and ongoing support, we work with you to learn and practice the skills that will make a difference.
When the same pattern keeps repeating.
When you understand what is happening but still can’t change the outcome.
When you’re trying to respond differently but it’s not working.
This is where we slow things down, understand what’s underneath and work out how the skills fit you and your situation.
With practice it gets easier … and this is transformation.
Not becoming a different person. Understanding yourself more deeply and using that understanding to change the way you experience life.
Two ways to begin
Self-Paced is about learning and understanding.
Transformation is about supported practice, individual application and living differently.
Both begin with the same resilience skills.
The difference is how deeply we work together to make them yours.
What changes
Exhaustion and confusion
to clarity and confidence.
Right now:
Constant overwhelm with no language for why
The same arguments and shutdowns on repeat
Endless research, very little that works on a hard day
Advocating for yourself or your person and getting nowhere
After the program:
You understand what your brain is doing and why
You know what matters most to you and can make decisions that count
You have regulation and repair tools that work under pressure
You can advocate calmly and you have built instinctive resilience that is unique to you
What you will learn
Ten skills. Learn them your way.
Skill 1 — Understanding Our Brains
Is the foundation for the whole My Brain Buddy program. It does not start with strategies or behaviour change. It starts with understanding what is happening in the brain and nervous system — especially under stress.
Skill 2 — Noticing Stress and Capacity
Explore how stress stacks over time and why capacity can change from one day, or one moment to the next. Learn to notice early signs of overwhelm and use small Reset Moments before dysregulation.
Skill 3 — Knowing What Matters
When everything feels urgent, deciding what matters most can reduce overwhelm and create clarity. This skill helps you consider the moment, the context and the capacity available before choosing what to do next.
Skill 4 — Values Guide Action
Learn how values can provide direction when decisions are difficult and capacity is limited. You will practice finding the 5% version—the smallest, realistic action that still moves toward what matters most.
Skill 5 — Interpersonal Relationships
Explore how the same event can be interpreted differently by two brains, creating reactions and relationship loops that quickly take over. This skill helps you step away from blame, recognise the pattern between people and identify what the relationship needs.
Skill 6 — Co-Regulation and Repair
Discover why regulation comes before reasoning, problem-solving and repair. Learn practical ways to steady the moment, acknowledge impact, clarify intention and reconnect after things go wrong.
Skill 7 — Accurate Decision Making
Stress can make urgency feel like certainty and narrow the options we can see. This skill helps you pause, separate facts from the story around them, widen the lens and make choices that fit the situation and your values.
Skill 8 — Effective Advocacy
Effective advocacy is clear, regulated, values-aligned and proportionate to the issue in front of you. Learn when to adapt, collaborate, advocate or escalate—and how to protect safety, dignity, access, health and identity without fighting every battle.
Skill 9 — Celebrate Differences
Celebrating differences does not mean ignoring challenges or pretending everything is easy. It means understanding different needs without shame, noticing what is working and allowing the brain to register moments of growth, connection and progress.
Skill 10 — Make It Work in Real Life
Bring the skills together in a practical Resilience Plan designed around the needs, patterns and capacity for you. Focus on small, repeatable adjustments that support regulation, repair, advocacy and sustainable change in everyday life.
Meet Nat
More than 30 years of experience, professional training and lived understanding—brought together with compassion, honesty and practical support.
Why work with me?
I’m Nat, and I created My Brain Buddy because I know how much difference it makes when someone takes the time to look beneath behaviour and understand what is really going on.
For more than 30 years, I’ve worked alongside people, families and communities. I’m also part of a neurodivergent family, so this isn’t something I understand only through training or professional experience. I know that real life can be complicated. Strategies that sound simple on paper don’t always work when people are overwhelmed, capacity is low and everyone is doing the best they can.
I’m not here to judge you, fix you or tell you to try harder. I’ll help you understand what is happening for your brain, recognise what is getting in the way and find practical ways forward that fit your life. Resilience isn’t about pushing through, it’s about understanding what helps you recover, adapt and keep going without losing yourself in the process.
That’s what My Brain Buddy is about: helping different brains feel understood, supported and better equipped for real life.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No.
The program is built for anyone navigating neurodiversity, with or without a formal diagnosis.
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You purchase on this page, create a customer account, and the course unlocks straight away. A welcome email follows with your login and where to start.
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Yes. Self-Paced participants can move to the Transformation Package at any time. Cost is $500.00
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No.
The full program is recorded and self-paced. Transformation coaching sessions and the Thursday network are live, but attending is your choice.
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Small groups, practical and low pressure. You can bring a situation to work through, or listen — both are fine. No pressure to perform, cameras on or off and chat function are all options to participate.
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Yes.
One-to-one coaching is available separately with either option and can be booked on the website. -
12 weeks - Self-Paced
6 months - Transformation
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Immediately - access to pre-recorded modules starts the moment you buy.
Transformation coaching sessions are used over 6 months and you can start booking these as soon as you finish the first 2 skills.
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Yes.
Many families access the program through Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living as carer/parent training (support item 15_038_0117_1_3), billed per hour at or under the NDIS Pricing Schedule limit.
You'll need to be self-managed or plan-managed — a registered provider isn't required, and you don't need your plan approved before starting. Ask your plan manager for an invoice, quote or service agreement and I'll provide whatever they need.
Funding isn't guaranteed, so it's worth confirming with your plan manager or support coordinator that the program fits your plan goals and the NDIS reasonable-and-necessary criteria.
General information, not funding advice — current as at September 2026. -
Nat holds a Diploma of Counselling (Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors), a Graduate Certificate in Social Sciences, a Diploma of Community Education and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
Nat is a Level 1 member of the Australian Counselling Association and a qualified Neurodiversity Coach (Naturalistic).
Nat also holds a current Police Check, Working with Children Check and First Aid certificate.
Which one fits you right now?
10 Resilience Skills. Upgrade to the Transformation Package anytime.
Self-Paced learning modules, 5 coaching sessions, weekly facilitated network sessions and newsletter. Includes everything in Self-Paced option. Complete 5-session program. All recorded teaching modules. Complete Participant Guide. Worksheets and session notes.
Either way you get the whole program. You can add support whenever you need it.
Instant access • Upgrade anytime •
One-to-one Counselling or Coaching available separately with either option.
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Counselling and Coaching
Need a little more support along the way?
Sometimes learning the skills is enough.
And sometimes something happens in real life that is harder to navigate on your own.
You can ask for more support when you need it.
One-to-one coaching gives us space to work with a particular situation,
practise using your resilience skills and find a way forward.
Counselling offers therapeutic support when you need more space to explore what is happening underneath,
including experiences or patterns that need more than skills coaching.
Both are available separately, so you don’t have to decide now what you might need later.
Start where you are and book support when you need it.