Expert Directory
Discover trusted professionals supporting families across parenting, child development and family wellbeing.
Child Development & Parenting
Creating Dreams Sleep Solutions
Flic is a Certified Responsive Sleep Consultant and mum of two, providing responsive and flexible sleep support for babies and young children, while prioritising the wellbeing of the whole family.
Her work is rooted in both professional training and lived experience. As a parent, she understands how challenging sleep deprivation can be and the impact it can have on every aspect of family life. Sleep isn't just about the night - it affects mood, relationships, confidence, wellbeing and our ability to cope day to day.
She provides responsive and flexible sleep support tailored to each child and family, recognising that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to sleep. Her goal is not only to improve sleep, but to support the wellbeing of the whole family along the way. All her advice follows current NHS and UK Safe Sleep Guidelines.
Above all, she believes every family deserves support that feels safe, realistic and aligned with their values.
Supporting: Baby sleep 0-2 years
Hug and Snug Sleep Consulting
Michele is a baby, child and autism sleep consultant providing gentle, evidence-based support to help exhausted parents better understand and navigate common sleep challenges.
Her approach is rooted in NHS and Lullaby Trust safe sleep guidance, ensuring families receive trusted, safe and responsive advice at every stage, that also respects their wishes and family.
She provides personalised sleep support that considers each child’s developmental stage and temperament, creating flexible routines that work for real life - helping families find calmer nights without leaving their child to cry or going against their instincts.
Supporting: Toddler and child sleep 2-6 years
The Positive Parent Coach
Olivia is a globally recognised and certified parenting coach passionate about helping families raise emotionally resilient, confident, and connected children.
Featured on Sky News, BBC Radio, and over 50 international publications, Olivia combines science-backed strategies with a calm, compassionate approach to support parents navigating big feelings, strong wills, and everyday challenges. Through her popular Raising Positive People membership, workshops, and signature programmes, she helps parents find their confidence, create calmer homes, and build strong, lasting bonds with their children - all without guilt, shouting, or second-guessing.
Supporting: Parenting ~ Deep Feelers
Parenting Anxious Children
Katrina is a parent coach specialising in childhood anxiety.
She helps parents support anxious children using compassionate, research-backed approaches that build confidence, resilience and emotional security.
She knows how hard it is watching your child struggle with fear, nerves or anxiety – She’s been there too and knows it can feel overwhelming trying to get it right all the time.
Her mission is to help parents feel confident in supporting their child, without shame, blame or walking on eggshells, so that everyone in the family can thrive again.
Supporting: Parenting ~ Child Anxiety
Learning to Love Autism
Jo is a Parenting and Family Coach for mums of autistic or ADHD children up to age 11 with no diagnosis needed.
She's felt the guilt and self-doubt, too. As a proud mum to her autistic and ADHD son, she helps women who are holding it all together on the outside move from overwhelm to calm, so they can parent and lead their family with clarity and confidence.
Jo supports you to accept and embrace your child's differences and empowers you to advocate clearly for your child at school.
Supporting: Parenting ~ Autism ~ ADHD
The Bottle Aversion OT
Beth is an occupational therapist specialising in bottle aversion and a mum who has lived the feeding stress too!
She now supports families who feel stuck in the cycle of bottle refusal, conflicted feeding behaviours and constant second‑guessing.
Beth explores the functional, environmental, sensory and relational factors that may contribute to your baby’s feeding challenges, looking at underlying causes rather than jumping straight to behavioural strategies. Her work focuses on rebuilding trust within the feeding relationship, supporting both you and your baby toward calmer, happier feeds.
She offers 1:1 personalised support alongside evidence‑based digital guides you can work through at your own pace.
Supporting: Bottle aversion ~ Feeding
The Fairy Birthmother
Vicky is the founder of the fairy birthmother and mummy of three. She is an antenatal educator, maternity nurse, hypnobirthing teacher, and breastfeeding consultant.
She walks alongside families through bump, birth, baby and beyond, offering trusted, evidence-based care rooted in biological norms.
Her mission is to provide calm, consistent support and continuity every step of the way.
Supporting: Breast feeding ~ Feeding
Chat and Play Speech Therapy
Suzanne is a Speech and Language Therapist. She works with families of children under 5 who might be struggling with their talking.
She loves empowering parents and walking alongside them through this worrying journey and she share tips and ideas to get your little one having fun and communicating.
The fun always comes first!
Supporting: Communication ~ Speech ~ Late talking
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is an award-shortlisted tutoring and education provider founded by qualified teachers Stephanie and Julie. Supporting children aged 4–11, The Learning Tree offers personalised tuition and small-group learning designed to build confidence, strengthen academic skills, and nurture a love of learning.
Specialising in phonics, primary Maths and English, 11+ preparation, the team combines extensive classroom experience with a warm, child-centred approach that helps children make meaningful progress while enjoying the learning process.
Alongside working directly with children, The Learning Tree provides parents with practical advice, expert insights, and strategies to support learning at home and help every child reach their full potential.
Supporting: Phonics ~ Primary school learning
The Little Gym
The Little Gym provides developmental gymnastics classes for ages 4 months - 12 years focusing on building strength, coordination, fine and gross motor skills.
They specialise in movement, with a holistic approach incorporating brain-boosting activities and life skills. Their progressive curriculum is based on 50 years of research into child development, prioritising early childhood as the foundation for higher learning, emotional regulation and sensory development.
Supporting: Motor skill development ~ Learning through play ~ Importance of movement
Love Montessori
Alisa is founder of Love Montessori. A supportive community helping families bring Montessori principles into everyday home life, and also The Nest by Love Montessori - a calm, nurturing space for babies, toddlers and their parents in St Albans, UK.
She is a Montessori educator and mum to two wonderful children aged 10 and 14. Alisa first discovered Montessori while living in Sydney, when she was looking for a nursery for her then two-year-old. What started as a practical searchquickly became something much deeper - an approach that has supported her through every stage of parenting.
Through her work, Alisa offers parent & child groups, workshops and 1:1 support for families who want to bring Montessori into their homes in a realistic and achievable way.
Supporting: Montessori
Walk With Me OT
Lara Ferrer is a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, Sensory Processing Specialist, passionate advocate for neurodiverse children and their families, and a mum. Her main role is around EHCPs and appeals at the NHS but also supports families privately.
With advanced training in Autism and Sensory Integration, she loves helping parents and educators feel empowered with evidence-based strategies. Her mission is to make clinical concepts accessible and actionable within everyday routines - offering everything from early intervention to sensory-friendly adaptations, and making occupational therapy inclusive.
Supporting: Dyspraxia ~ Interoception ~Downs Syndrome ~ Cerebral Palsy ~Global Development delay ~ Spina Bifida ~ Learning Difficulties ~ Sensory processing
Pocket Paeds Physio
Charlotte is the founder of Pocket Paeds Physio!
She is a highly specialist HCPC and APCP registered paediatric physiotherapist and has a passion for working with little ones and supporting their development.
She has extensive experience working with children of all ages, from birth to adulthood, as well as supporting their families through their journey.
Her mission is to bridge the gap between high-level clinical expertise and the everyday reality of parenting, providing a supportive "expert in your pocket" experience from birth.
Supporting: Paediatric Physiotherapy
LH Therapeutic Services for Children and Families
Luisa is a Counsellor and Psychotherapist for children and adolescents. Luisa is an Integrative Therapist, meaning she is trained to use various therapeutic modalities and skills to support each young person. As part of this approach, Luisa offers play-based therapy, which supports children in expressing their thoughts and feelings in safe and healthy ways. Luisa integrates other approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic and Person-Centred approaches.
Luisa’s approach is also systemic, which means she understands that young people don’t exist in isolation. Luisa can work with the whole family, recognising the importance of supporting not just the individual, but the entire system around them. This is where parental coaching and family support comes in.
Luisa aims to offer more than just therapeutic techniques, providing families with warmth, empathy, and a non-judgmental attitude, holding space for any young person to explore their feelings and experiences in a safe, ethical environment.
Supporting: Therapy and Psychotherapy for children (pre teenager)
Pregnancy and Early Parenthood
Jade the Postnatal Doula
Jade is a mum, wife, and postnatal doula with a heart for helping families feel prepared for and truly held whilst navigating the postpartum period.
She became a postnatal doula because she truly felt the gap in support when she had her son. Sometimes you don't want someone to try and fix or change things, you just need someone external to sit in the chaos with you so it feels a little bit less overwhelming, that's where she comes in.
My passion is helping Mamas during pregnancy to prepare for their postpartum, she truly believes that when we know what to expect, it's a lot less daunting - for all involved!
She provides continuous and one-off, non judgemental, planning and support sessions, with day and night options. Through emotional and informational support, and practical support and/or guidance, you don't have to navigate postpartum alone.
Supporting: Postnatal planning
Porter Nutrition
Aliya is a mum of 3 and a Registered Nutritionist.
She has won awards for her work supporting families to eat well without chaining them to the kitchen or breaking the bank.
She can help you 1-1 to work out how to improve your mealtimes and nutrition, or you can join her for a course. Aliya is very experienced and her approach is collaborative and non judgemental. She has supported families to take the stress out of meal planning and mealtimes, as well as supported children whose parents have concerns about their weight, growth or energy levels.
Aliya also campaigns nationally for better children's nutrition and has developed menus for nurseries and supported hundreds of women during pregnancy and the postnatal period to eat well.
Supporting: Weaning ~ Fussy Eating ~ Family nutrition
Baby Pottying
Steph is the founder of Baby Pottying and supports parents who want a gentle and gradual approach to their baby’s toilet awareness from an early age, primarily between 0–18 months.
Also known as Elimination Communication or Early Potty Learning, baby pottying offers an alternative to traditional potty training methods by building on babies’ awareness and communication over time.
Using an evidence-based approach and her own experience with her two boys, she shares practical, realistic support to help families make baby pottying work in everyday life.
Through her course, resources and online content, her aim is to help parents approach potty learning with more confidence and less pressure.
Supporting: Baby pottying ~ Elimination communication
Nicky Kantura Counselling
Nicky is a fully qualified, BACP registered, Maternal Mental Health Counsellor who supports pregnant women, mums in early motherhood and beyond.
She works with mums to navigate challenges such as anxiety, low mood, and identity and relationship changes. For the Parent Hub she’ll be offering support for birth trauma and pregnancy and infant loss.
With her you can make sense of what you’re feeling and regain steadiness and confidence - so you can move through this season with greater self-compassion and support.
Supporting: Birth Trauma ~ Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Parental Wellbeing
Ria Oliver coaching and therapy
Ria is an emotional health coach and therapist, helping perfectionist, people-pleasing Mums drop the guilt, ditch the overwhelm and finally put themselves back on the priority list.
Through therapy, coaching and a whole lot of real talk, she guided high-achieving women to reclaim their calm, confidence and sense of self. It’s time to stop performing and start living - messy, imperfect and unapologetically you!
Supporting: Women emotional health coaching and therapy
Fit Mum Squad UK
Jade, is the founder of Fit Mum Squad UK and mother of two. She works to enable mums to feel supported, no matter what stage they are at in their motherhood journey. She currently runs pre- and postnatal fitness classes and will soon be taking on 1:1 clients.
Through harnessing the power of the pelvic floor and core, she will help you engage in safe movement and create habits for life - all while bringing your baby along for the ride! Most movements can be adapted if there is pain or discomfort postpartum and all classes are also suitable for pregnancy.
Her mission is to enable mums to feel respected, heard and understood.
Supporting: Women fitness (pre and postnatal) ~ Strength training ~ Functional fitness
Caesarean Phoenix
Amy began teaching in 2011, she has transformed the lives of hundreds of women, dedicating herself to helping mums rediscover their strength and live without pain or injury.
Her award-winning expertise in postnatal and c-section recovery has consistently delivered the results women long for, all while she radiates warmth, passion, and an unwavering commitment to their well-being.
Supporting: C-Section recovery ~ Scar massage
Aligned Parenting
Aligned Parenting helps couples strengthen their relationship while navigating the transition into parenthood. When a baby arrives, it can be easy for connection and intimacy to get lost in the demands of daily life.
They support couples in building secure, resilient partnerships - so they feel confident not only as parents, but also as partners. Together, we’ll create the connection and stability the relationship needs to thrive, and the security the family deserves to grow.
Supporting: Parental relationships
Helen Buteux
Helen is an occupational therapist with over a decade of experience supporting babies, toddlers and their mums through the early years.
She specialises in early development, sensory foundations and maternal wellbeing, combining professional expertise with real-life understanding of how overwhelming motherhood can feel.
Helen is the founder of the EmpowerMum Method, a supportive programme designed to help new and expecting mums feel calm, confident and connected – understanding their baby’s development without comparison, and trusting themselves in the process.
Supporting: Matrescence
Mike Denman Fitness
Mike Denman is a former Executive Chef who managed kitchens for 30 years (getting to 150kg in the process). He lost 50kg after age 40, with two young children and a busy career.
He now runs Mike Denman Fitness, an online coaching programme for busy men and dads who want to lose weight and get healthy for good, without overhauling the life they've built.
He's been featured in Men's Fitness, Apple News and the Mail on Sunday. The program focuses on sustainable nutrition, training and habits which are designed to fit busy lives.
Supporting: Men's fitness
Family Life
Everything Belongs Mindfulness
Sheryl is the face behind Everything Belongs Mindfulness. She is a Creative Mindfulness Practitioner for children, teens, and adults.
She helps families find calm, connection, and joy through simple, practical mindfulness tools. She offers a range of support, like workshops, parent and family sessions, one-to-ones, and classes for children.
Sheryl also works with schools and nurseries to provide staff wellbeing sessions and training, helping educators support both their own mental health and their students’ emotional wellbeing.
At the heart of her work is a passion for nurturing emotional resilience, presence, and connection in families and communities.
Supporting: Mindfulness
Eye of the Tidier
Emily is a Professional Organiser and founder of eye of the tidier. She supports parents to create calm, functional spaces within their homes that work for the whole family.
Juggling work, kids, running a home and making time for yourself can feel overwhelming at the best of times – and when your space isn’t supporting you, you feel it. She has 3 children and knows how easy it is for the house to get cluttered with all the ‘stuff’, but equally know how hard it is to find the time to tackle it!
Her approach to decluttering and organising focuses on understanding what life looks like for each individual family, and then designing systems that are simple to maintain and provide the flexibility to adapt and evolve over time. Whether it’s a bedroom, playroom, kitchen or even just clearing out the ‘room of doom’, she can support you in through the process and help you make time for what really matters.
Supporting: Decluttering ~ Organising
Screensafe
Anna is an online safety educator, school governor, and mum of two teenagers. She works with schools and families across the UK, delivering a whole-school approach to online safety and digital wellbeing - without fear, judgment, or tech-shaming.
Anna believes that truly protecting children online starts with understanding their world - the pressures they face, the platforms they use, and why. Her approach is practical, honest, and rooted in one simple idea: connection over control.
She helps families feel confident and supported across everything from first phones to social media, gaming, and AI - building children's ability to spot risks, develop healthy digital habits, and know where to turn if something goes wrong.
Supporting: Online safety ~ Social media safety
School Compass
Joe is the founder of School Compass, helping parents navigate the school system with confidence.
With more than 15 years experience as a teacher, senior leader and curriculum and assessment lead in an all-through school, Joe has seen first-hand how the education system works from early years through to post-16.
His work has been published in a number of education books, he has given evidence to the UK Education Select Committee on curriculum and has been the education consultant for BBC Teach.
After becoming a parent himself, Joe recognised how difficult it is to access clear, independent insight from outside the system. He now supports families by translating how schools really work - helping parents understand what matters, what is normal, and how to make confident decisions for their child.
Supporting: Navigating the UK school system
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