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Psychology support for all brain types and ages.

19/11/2025

We still have Santa spaces available so we are opening up the opportunity to everyone. These 15 minute bookings are for kids or parents who struggle with the sensory overload and the demand of meeting Santa at the shops or even getting to the shops!

Please get in touch at jody@wagtailtherapy.com.au or jacki@wagtailtherapy.com.au with 3 preferred times on 18th December and we can book you in. 🎄🎄🎅

18/11/2025

People have repeatedly tried to explain to me that the rainbow fish needed to share his sparkly scales with his friends so everyone could have a sparkly fin, and it would be fair. This is a point i can never seem to agree with people on.

I think we need to get a sequel to this book where all the rainbow fish's friends apologise and return his scales to him.

There are so many reasons the rainbow fish should have kept his scales.

1. Those were his beautiful shiny scales and he should never have been asked to share them in the first place. It was forced sharing and peer pressure.
2. He should not have been expected to give up his shine so others would accept him.
3. His friends should have been celebrating his sparkles instead of being jealous of them.
4. He should not be expected to give up parts of himself to please others.

Let him sparkle!!!!

13/11/2025

Preparing my little "nuggets of wisdom" presentation to share with the Wagtail team after the PDA conference. I am hoping to share some new learnings, some new viewpoints, and some new ways of presenting information we were already using in our practice.

Thanks to the presenters who were kind enough to share their nuggets with me.

Dr Wenn Lawson
Natalee Blakemore - Diversum
Debbie Hawthorne - SSEND
Vicky Alexander - Parent and Educator
Dr Theresa Kidd The Kidd Clinic
The Occuplaytional Therapist

Side note - the fact that there's no chicken nugget emoji proves to me that we still live in a "neurotypical" world.

11/11/2025

It was a privilege to attend the Inaugral PDA Conference Australia today. The organisers did an amazing job getting so many passionate advocates for PDA into one space and making room for everyone's lived experiences of PDA. The vibe of the day was curious and compassionate. Thanks Inaugural PDA Conference Australia 2025 and supporters for all the hard work you put in.

Side note - we have so many colouring books left so please get in touch if you want some! Can pick up from our clinic in Ardross.

Another side note - kids will apparently want to do a lot of colouring all of a sudden if you say "try not colour those ones in, they are for work." 🤣

09/11/2025

Santa is coming back to visit us at Wagtail this year. You get 15 minutes with Santa to hang out, get some photos and info dump. You can sit or stand. You can yell loudly or say nothing at all. Completely up to you.

This is a free service for Wagtail clients or people on our waitlist. If this is you, you should have received an email last night showing you how to book.

Please get in touch with myself or Jacki if you didn't receive an email and want to book in a time. 🎄🎅

05/11/2025

There has been a lot more interest in our PDA colouring book than anticipated so we have made a downloadable pdf version available on our website. Please use this link to download your copy - https://wagtailtherapy.com.au/services. It's completely free and you don't need to provide any personal details to download.

I'm so glad that our love for PDA has resonated with other people because it shows a community of people who are affirming and appreciative of all types of brains. 🥰 PDAers make me smile and impress me every single day so I would hate to see therapies aimed at reducing these traits or dimming these personalities.

On a side note - we would love to eventually create a version of this colouring book that displays true art by neurodivergent artists or artists with neurodivergent family. If you might be interested in creating a page (using the words we have in the current colouring book) or know of someone who might be interested then please get in touch. We would make this a paid version (if it ever happens - I'm good at ideas but not always completion 😂).

03/11/2025

I am very proud to share the colouring book that our team at Wagtail has created. The images are painstakingly created through hours of conversation with AI but the words and the image concepts are all our own or from real scenarios in our therapy sessions.

This is not just a gimmick - at Wagtail we truly love working with our PDAers and with the people supporting and advocating for PDA.

Copies of this colouring book will be available in the sensory room of the inaugural PDA Conference Australia 2025 as a gift. We hope you enjoy colouring and reading as much as we enjoyed creating. 🥰

30/10/2025

Happy Halloween for tomorrow!

Remember the true meaning of Halloween - lots and lots of lollies and dressing up as whatever we want.

14/10/2025

After seeing an increase in schools and parents being trained in the 1,2,3 Magic approach I thought I would do some additional research.

I am very concerned at the idea of this approach being used in schools or homes and I think it is time to move on to supportive and collaborative strategies.

Many of these more traditional approaches appear "evidence based" at first glance but they seem to be measuring masking and neurotypical behaviours as their measure of success.

Let's start aiming to raise emotionally secure and healthy people, rather than pleasant and polite people.

06/10/2025

We have space for 10 new clients!

Wagtail is finishing up it's positive behaviour support services which means we now have space for some new psychology clients! It has been exciting to to have seen our wait list actually progress and we are looking forward to meeting and supporting some more people.

Please email our amazing admin assistant, Jacki, at jacki@wagtailtherapy.com.au or complete the contact form on our website to get in touch - https://wagtailtherapy.com.au/

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4 Kearns Crescent
Ardross, WA

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https://wagtailtherapy.com.au/

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