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Andrea is a BCBA, LBA with 15+ years of experience supporting children ages 2–15 and their families. She specializes in early intervention, communication, emotional regulation, independence, and caregiver support using child-centered, evidence-based approaches.
Diana is a BCBA with 10+ years of experience in ABA, focused on helping families use practical, evidence-based strategies to support meaningful progress at home.
Kea is a BCBA and parent coach specializing in neuro-affirming, assent-based care and compassionate family support.
Michael is a BCBA focused on compassionate, trauma-informed care and helping families better understand and support their child’s needs through practical, evidence-based approaches.
Sarah, MS, BCBA, has 10+ years of experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities, including children ages 2–20. She specializes in focused ABA services and caregiver consultation, with a collaborative, flexible approach centered on each family’s needs.
Shelby is a BCBA supporting autistic children and families with practical strategies for behavior, communication, and everyday skills.
Aggression is rarely meanness. It often happens when overload, demands or big frustration use up a child's self-control.
Hitting can be words when words fail.
The brain is in fight-or-flight, not learning.
Punishing in the moment fuels the fire.
Your child has lost control, not gained it.
Position yourself between your child and others. Block hits neutrally using your hands as shields or a soft cushion. Avoid eye contact and minimise speaking to prevent accidental reinforcement.
Dim the lights, turn off loud TVs, and ask siblings to leave the room. Lowering the cumulative sensory load on your child's nervous system is the fastest path to a full co-regulation reset.
If the environment cannot be cleared, calmly remove yourself or other children to a safe room, leaving the aggressive child in a completely trigger-free, secure space to cool down.
Wait at least 30 to 60 minutes after both of you are completely calm. Teaching replacement behaviours or addressing the situation is only effective when the nervous system is at baseline.
Evidence-informedNICE recommends building a behaviour support plan that explains the function of the behaviour, adjusts the environment, and teaches an alternative skill before relying on reactive responses.
NICE NG11 — Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities
- Identify the function of the behaviour before choosing an intervention.
- Adapt the environment and routine to reduce triggers.
- Teach an alternative skill and involve family or carers.
Aggression manifests differently across developmental stages. Understanding these nuances helps determine if you need direct therapist oversight.
Support intensity changes with age, language, safety, and recovery time.
Outbursts are usually driven by expressive language gaps and manding deficits. Toddlers resort to hitting or biting because they cannot express immediate needs.
Each module contains a practical step-by-step guide and a concrete tool for the parent.
Identify the hidden environmental and biological triggers maintaining your child's outbursts. Set up a baseline tracking system.
A simple, structured parent tracker to analyse the triggers and consequences of outbursts.
Describe one unsafe episode. A specialist helps build one response so every adult protects your child and others in the same way.
Our programme is built for exhausted caregivers who need highly practical, bite-size guidance that works in real life.
We do not believe in clinical isolation. Your specialist acts as a behavioural detective, helping you decode the function of aggression.
Your therapist will help you look past the form of hitting to verify whether it is driven by escape from demands, tangible access, or attention.
If your child's aggression presents safety risks, your therapist will design tailored blocking and room-clearing workflows.
We check parent execution accuracy. Your specialist will observe you in-vivo or via video review, providing gentle, immediate feedback to guarantee success.
We work with behavioural therapists who have demonstrated experience in parent training and caregiver-mediated interventions—so support works in the routines your family repeats at home.
We do not believe in clinical isolation. Your specialist acts as a behavioural detective, helping you decode the function of aggression.
The behavioural methodologies you master to resolve aggression build a solid foundation of co-regulation that applies across your child's entire life.
Teaching an appropriate, low-effort communication skill that produces the same functional reward as the aggressive behaviour it replaces.
Successfully resolves picky eating food selectivity, bedtime refusal, and public screaming.
Teaching an appropriate, low-effort communication skill that produces the same functional reward as the aggressive behaviour it replaces.
Self-paced access to your personalised support programme and practical parent materials.
Self-guided support is unavailable here. Start with a specialist so safety, triggers, and next steps are reviewed together.
Personalised guidance and live 1:1 sessions with an experienced, certified behavioural expert.
Choose expert support when your family needs deeper, more individualised help.
Start working with a licensed specialist immediately, without waitlists or delays. Build a tailored, neuro-affirming safety and co-regulation plan together.