Dana Baltutis Coaching

08/11/2025

I honestly don’t know how she does it. The way Paige holds space for her son, honours his nervous system, and keeps learning through the hard moments - it’s incredible.

Parents who are going through a similar journey - know you are not alone. Tune in for some inspiration and strength.

Listen now to The Empowered Parent Podcast - available on your favourite podcast app or via this link

Change doesn’t wait for the perfect schedule, and neither do big feelings. We sit down after a long day to unpack a week where a 30-minute hydrotherapy session brought relief, the weather kept us indoors, and Oakland leaned hard into the comfort o...

07/11/2025

Great news!

We’re excited to share that a new Occupational Therapist will be joining our team in February 2026!
If your child needs OT support, now is the perfect time to join our waiting list, as places will fill quickly.

We’re also launching a new Home Play and Communication Program for parents of babies and toddlers up to 2 years old.
This program focuses on early connection, play, and communication development — right where families need it most.

Families living within 5 km of Mitchell Park (SA) can access in-home sessions for up to 6 weeks.
We also offer telehealth sessions for families further away.

Sessions can be claimed through private health insurance or funded through the NDIS.

📞 Contact us today to join the waiting list or learn more about our upcoming programs.

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30/10/2025

Week three of our Unschooling journey with Paige and Oaklan.

In this episode we celebrate the small signs of nervous system recovery. We talk about why strollers and prams can be essential for older or ambulant children, especially when the world feels too big or too fast. We also explore community access, safety, and how to get around getting funding for a pram/stroller through the NDIS because of 'restrictive practices'.

If your child is struggling at school or finds public spaces overwhelming, this episode will give you understanding and hope.

Listen to The Empowered Parent podcast with Dana Baltutis on your favourite podcast app or via this link

Ever watched a child light up at the zoo, then shut down at the hospital and wondered how to bridge those worlds with care, dignity, and actual access? We dive into a week that held both: a quiet bus at Monarto where curiosity bloomed, and a clini...

30/10/2025

Season 2 has come to a close - and my heart is full.

Episode 10, Every Colour Matters, of The Empowered Parent Podcast with Dana Baltutis is now live - my closing reflection on this season of neurodiversity.

This season held so many real, raw and important conversations -
about voice, autonomy, safety, belonging, and reshaping the environments that shape our neurodivergent population.
I am deeply grateful to every guest who trusted me,
and to every one of you who listened with an open heart.

If there is one message I want to leave you with, it is this:

Neurodiversity is not a problem to solve - it is a truth to honour.
Every way of thinking, sensing, relating and learning deserves to be understood, not fixed.

Thank you for walking this journey with me.
For seeing beyond behaviour.
For choosing compassion over compliance.
For believing that every human, deserves a place where they feel safe to be who they are.

And while Season 2 is officially closing, we’re not done.

We are currently airing a limited Unschooling Series with Paige Carter of Inclusive Oak.
So keep listening, keep leaning in. There is more to learn, more to unlearn, and more to become.

🎧 Episode 10: Every Colour Matters - now available on The Empowered Parent podcast. You can listen on your favourite podcast app or via this link

The rainbow stretches across the sky – vibrant, diverse, and complete only because each colour exists. This powerful metaphor frames our season finale on neurodiversity, reminding us that human brains, like rainbows, aren't meant to be identical. ...

26/10/2025

When you carry responsibility for others - as a carer, leader, parent, therapist - your nervous system becomes the container for everyone else.
You hold space. You anticipate. You respond. You absorb.

That is meaningful work. But it is also energy-intensive work.

This is why taking time for yourself is not indulgent. It is essential maintenance. The system cannot keep giving without coming back to stillness, grounding, and a sense of one’s own centre.

For me, that reset happens when I go completely offline with my husband - out into the outback, under open skies, camping where there is nothing to respond to.
No notifications. No questions. No output required.
Just land. Breath. Slowness. Reconnection to what is real.

That is not escape. That is return.
And it is what allows me to come back to my work resourced, clear, and ready to lead again.

23/10/2025

What if a camera could say what your voice can’t? We sit down with Bianca, a neurodivergent artist and mother living with bipolar II, ADHD, and autistic traits, to explore how art, therapy, and the right clinical support helped her turn pain into purpose. From a turbulent childhood in post-communist Romania to a leap-of-faith move to Adelaide during the pandemic, her story threads vulnerability with resolve, and invites us to rethink what recovery and advocacy can look like.
We trace her late diagnosis journey-sparked by her child’s assessment, and the mix of shock and relief that followed a bipolar II diagnosis. Bianca breaks down the real work of finding effective medication, why a psychiatrist’s expertise matters for complex mood disorders, and how weekly therapy functions like emotional hygiene. She shares the gritty middle: when ADHD meds tangle with mood stability, when the wrong clinician sets progress back, and how to keep going until you’re truly seen.
Listen on your favourite podcast app or via this link

What if a camera could say what your voice can’t? We sit down with Bianca, a neurodivergent artist and mother living with bipolar II, ADHD, and autistic traits, to explore how art, therapy, and the right clinical support helped her turn pain into ...

21/10/2025

NEW EPISODE IS LIVE - Unschooling Series with Paige Carter (Week 2)

What if success isn’t pushing harder, but allowing deep recovery first?

This week Paige shares how her son is slowly returning to curiosity after burnout — asking to see friends, stepping into school for minutes at a time, choosing rest when needed. We unpack deschooling as a nervous system reset, and how real learning returns when pressure is removed.

We also go behind the scenes of Paige’s major advocacy work - meeting the Premier to fight for kids in the “grey area” of education, and why rest afterward wasn’t indulgence, but maintenance.

If you’re navigating burnout, rethinking school, or craving a gentler lens - this one is for you.

🎧 Listen now on The Empowered Parent with Dana Baltutis on your favourite podcast app or via this link

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A five-minute visit can hold a whole season of hope. I sat down with Paige Carter of Inclusive Oak to trace the delicate return of motivation after school burnout, and name a stage many families live inside: curiosity without capacity. Oakland ask...

20/10/2025

I saw a photo last week that completely stopped me.
A little girl who used to stay on the edges of group time - was suddenly right in the middle.
Laughing. Connected. Alive.

It wasn’t about “trying harder.”
It was about someone seeing her differently.
And that changed everything.

This is why we do more by doing less.

🎥 Here’s what happened

16/10/2025

What happens when a clinical psychologist with ADHD parents two neurodivergent children? A uniquely insightful perspective on navigating family life with different brains. Dr. Claire Milligan opens up about her journey from struggling parent to practice director of Maple Leaf Psychology and Allied Health, sharing the moment when everything changed - when her pediatrician asked, "Which one of you has ADHD?"

That question sparked what Claire calls her "kaleidoscope moment" - suddenly her entire life made sense through an ADHD lens. With refreshing honesty, Claire shares both professional wisdom and personal struggles, including a meltdown that happened just hours before our conversation. Her vulnerability reinforces what many parents need to hear: perfection isn't possible, but repair always is.

Claire explains the crucial differences between tantrums and meltdowns, offering practical strategies for each.
Listen on your favourite podcast app or via this link. Please subscribe and share.

What happens when a clinical psychologist with ADHD parents two neurodivergent children? A uniquely insightful perspective on navigating family life with different brains. Dr. Claire Milligan opens up about her journey from struggling parent to pr...

14/10/2025

🎙 The Empowered Parent Podcast has a special limited series following Paige Carter, a mum, coach, and advocate, as she begins unschooling her son after autistic burnout.
Each week, Paige opens up about what learning looks like when it’s led by curiosity, not classrooms - the joys, the challenges, and the healing that comes with slowing down.
Follow along as we explore unschooling, burnout recovery, and what it means to truly trust your child’s way of learning.
Listen now on The Empowered Parent Podcast - available on your favourite podcast app or via this link

What if the bravest thing you could do for your child’s education was to stop pushing and start listening to their nervous system? That’s the pivot Paige Carter makes as she chooses unschooling to help her autistic son, Oaklan, recover from severe...

14/10/2025