our services
How we help
People are relational and are intended to be part of a larger whole. Trauma can interfere with a child’s ability to connect and regulate, and therefore lead to challenging behaviours. Growing Children has years of trauma-informed expertise to help support children, parents and caregivers, professionals and organisations. Our focus is on trauma-informed strategies that offer effective, ongoing support to children and all others that are involved.
Dr. Deidré Nel
Founder of Growing Children
My passion for children and families motivated me to become a social worker more than 30 years ago. I continued with postgrad studies in Social Work, specialising in Play Therapy. Over the past six years I have continued my learning about the impact of trauma on the developing child, through the Neurosequential Model Network and I am a certified Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics trainer. I have worked closely with children and families within the foster care sector and have realised how tough life can be if you have experienced trauma and adversity early in life. My mission is to help children who have experienced significant hardship, to heal and build resilience; to empower parents and caregivers to be the emotional containers and change agents in the lives of their children and to enable professionals and organisations to draw on and build into the trauma sensitive strengths and strategies that they have, and facilitate change where necessary.
Get in touch to book a service
At Growing Children, we offer an initial online consultation for any parent, caregiver or professional that is in need of a Neurosequential Assessment and Behavioural support plan for a child with developmental delays and/or challenging behaviours. We also offer training and consultation services to organisations that want to become trauma-informed.
