I work with children and adults alike to manage stress and anxiety in a holistic way. Contact me for rates and available times. Kim X
“Online Only Sessions”
* Kids & Teens Managing Anxiety
* Family & Individual Counselling
* Career Development and Counselling
* NDIS Mentoring and Skill Development
* Meditation and Spiritual Counselling
* Australian Bush Flower Essence Consults I use Holistic Counselling and other Complementary Therapies to bring the traditional and alternative together, providing a unique, intuitive and individualised therapy approach from my studio here at home. Working from a lived experience with two Autistic teens I also hold certifications and licenses in:
• Holistic Counselling
• Spiritual Counselling
• First Aid
• Working with Children Check
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Education Support
• Australian Bush Flower Essences - Happy Healthy Kids – Advanced Practioner
• Australian Bush Flower Essences - Level 3 Advanced Practioner
• Auslan 1
• Getting Started in Kids Yoga (Cosmic Kids Yoga)
• Level 2 ABA Therapist Training (ABIA) - NOT USED IN THERAPY HERE
• Reiki Usui Master
• Reiki Seichim Master
• Colour Therapy
• Crystal Therapy
• Metaphysical Studies
• Past Life Regression Therapy
I welcome working with adults and children alike and have a specific passion for helping our Autistic community.
07/11/2025
✨Here are a few overlapping traits between ADHD and Autism!✨
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⚠️ I know that many ADHD and Autistic traits can overlap, but for this infographic, I’ve focused on the ones that are most commonly associated with each.⚠️
Here are my go to sources for my infographic information!
DBTSkills. Emotion Regulation Module. DBT deals with all emotions and says that no emotions are ' bad' or ' good'.
We need the whole range. Including anger.
What we usually need to learn to do is manage our anger and learn to express it appropriately.
Below is the infographic ' the Anger Volcano' which illustrates what happens when we don't have the skill to regulate anger.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills help with this.
Visual credit : Hope Trust.
05/11/2025
Pay attention to the first person your child is disrespectful to — it’s almost always the person in the home they feel the safest with. The one whose love has never wavered, even on the hardest days. It’s easy to take it personally when their words sting or their tone cuts sharp, but beneath that defiance is something quietly sacred: trust.
They save their sharpest words and loudest protests for the parent whose love has proven itself indestructible. It feels like a betrayal, like the one person you’ve protected the most is now turning their fire on you. But if you look closer, you’ll see that what they’re really doing is searching — searching for proof that your love can survive the storm of their emotions. They don’t know how to say, “I feel safe enough to fall apart here,” so they show you instead.
Let’s call it what it really is: not defiance, but testing. Not disrespect, but a clumsy form of trust. When your child lashes out, they are unconsciously asking, “Are you strong enough to love me when I’m unlovable? Will you stay even when I make it hard?” It’s not a pretty question. It comes wrapped in attitude, sarcasm, and slammed doors. But beneath it is a plea for reassurance — for unconditional love that stands firm even when they can’t.
This doesn’t mean you let disrespect slide. Boundaries are still love, and they need to know that kindness is expected, even in anger. Address the behavior, yes. Hold the line with calm strength. But don’t miss the message buried underneath the chaos — that your child feels safe enough with you to bring all of themselves to the table, even the parts they can’t yet understand.
And here’s the quiet truth: one day, they’ll remember. They’ll remember the moments you didn’t yell back, the way you stood steady when they fell apart. They’ll remember that you were the safe place they could test the limits of love — and find that it held firm. So, when their words sting, when their attitude bites, take a breath and remind yourself: they aren’t fighting you. They’re fighting themselves in front of you, because you’re the one person they know won’t leave when they lose.
Because that’s what real safety looks like — the freedom to unravel in the arms of love, and the quiet knowing that love will still be there when the storm passes.
Mental Health with Omoye
04/11/2025
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03/11/2025
Get free virtual classroom lessons facilitated by a qualified counsellor through our Kids Helpline @ School program.
02/11/2025
IIt’s Stress Awareness Week, a great reminder to pause and check in with yourself 🧡
Many believe reducing stress automatically improves mental health, but research shows the connection is far more complex and interlinked.
We all experience stress, but it affects each of us differently and can change over time.
Awareness is the first step. Try these 4 simple steps below to start managing stress 👇
For a full guide to understanding and managing stress, click here 👉 https://bit.ly/3Xg4tBg
28/10/2025
With the end of year and Christmas looming, everyone is tired (and somewhat stressed). Even though the end is near and you can tell yourself to finally relax after all of "it" is done, the "end" can still feel so far out of reach for many.
If you would like to book an online session please do so soon to avoid missing out. Timeslots for online sessions are available but are also limited. These sessions can be "one offs", there is no requirement to book fortnightly sessions.
Online sessions can include:
Private Clients
- Kids & Teens Managing Anxiety Sessions
- Family & Individual Counselling Sessions
- Spiritual Counselling Sessions
- Meditation Sessions
- Australian Bush Flower Essences Consults www.rainbowlighttherapies.com.au
NDIS and Private Clients
Career Development and Counselling Sessions
Including:
- Vocational Assessments and Interpretation/recommendations
- Establishing values, interests, characteristics and abilities
- Setting smart goals
- Travel skills
- Time management skills
- Anxiety management
- Scheduling
- Study techniques
- Mentoring opportunities
- Course applications
- Volunteer opportunities
- Employment opportunities and preparation including resume writing, mock interviews etc
- Obtaining Working with children’s check, White Card, RSA and/or other similar licenses needed for any volunteer or paid work
- Short course/further study options
- Mentoring, Peer Support and Skill Development
- Non face-to-face Support Work
If you would like to book an appointment or have any queries at all please do not hesitate to contact me. Just call / text me on 0401 561923 or email at kim@rainbowlighttherapies.com.au.
Kim X
25/10/2025
She seems fine. Quiet. Polite. Easy to teach.
But what if that calm exterior is carefully constructed?
Many girls learn early on to blend in — to watch, copy, and adapt so they don’t stand out.
It can look like confidence or maturity… but underneath, it’s often exhaustion.
Masking is not pretending.
It’s surviving in an environment that doesn’t yet feel safe enough for authenticity.
Our Toolkit for Parents & Educators explores how masking shows up, why it’s so often missed, tools to identify triggers and strategies/activities to support.
Instant electronic download with secure global checkout. at link in comments ⬇️ or via our Linktree Shop in Bio.
Because when a child finally feels safe to drop the mask — that’s when real connection begins.
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22/10/2025
WHEN I COME OUT OF SCHOOL…
I’ve held it together all day — smiling when I didn’t feel OK, copying others so I could fit in, keeping my stims small and hidden.
So when I come out of school…
Please don’t ask me to talk straight away.
Please don’t tell me how good I was.
Please just let me rest, be quiet, and feel safe again.
Want to understand more about masking and neurodivergent wellbeing?
Explore the full Masking Toolkit by The Contented Child for visuals, guides, and practical tools that help uncover what’s behind the mask — and support children to feel safe being their true selves. Link in comments ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in our Bio.
NOTE
Some children do mask so competently that it can be hard to get a diagnosis - that is why I created Meet My Brain: Power & the Tricky Bits. Link in comments.
22/10/2025
The brain of the ADHD child is developing at an average 30?hind schedule in the frontal lobe region according to leading ADHD researcher Dr Russell Barkley.
The frontal lobe controls regulation. It is the executive function part of the brain. It is the boss, the voice in your brain, the executive assistant, that tells you what to do with what you know and learn.
Because this part is behind schedule, children with ADHD brains are not always able to access the information they know to make use of it.
If you’re autistic, you’ve probably heard some of these before:
🗣 “Just make eye contact!”
🗣 “You’re overreacting.”
🗣 “Everyone feels like that sometimes.”
🗣 “You just need to get out of your comfort zone.”
🗣 “You’re not that autistic.”
🗣 “You don’t look autistic.”
Every autistic person has experienced the strange, confusing world of neurotypical advice.
Most of it comes from people who genuinely mean well — but it ends up invalidating autistic experiences instead of supporting them.
The thing is, neurotypicals often give advice that works for their brains, not ours.
So when they say things like “just focus harder” or “try being more social,” they don’t realize that autistic people aren’t choosing difficulty — our brains literally work differently.
Let’s break it down 👇
“Just make eye contact.”
To a neurotypical person, eye contact means attention and respect.
To an autistic person, it can feel like physical pain, sensory overload, or an intense distraction.
We can listen better when we’re not forcing ourselves to maintain eye contact — but neurotypicals read that as disinterest.
“You’re overreacting.”
What they call “overreacting” is often a sensory overload or emotional regulation issue.
Imagine hearing every sound in a room at full volume, lights flickering like strobe effects, and clothes feeling like sandpaper.
Now imagine being told you’re “too sensitive.”
It’s not overreacting — it’s surviving an environment that feels hostile to your nervous system.
“Everyone feels like that sometimes.”
Yes, but not everyone feels like that all the time.
The difference between occasional discomfort and a constant neurological reality is huge.
It’s the same as telling someone with asthma, “Everyone gets out of breath sometimes.”
“You just need to get out of your comfort zone.”
Autistic people spend most of their lives outside their comfort zones — masking, performing, trying to fit into a neurotypical world.
Our comfort zones aren’t laziness — they’re safe spaces where we can recover from constant sensory and social exhaustion.
“You’re not that autistic.”
This one hurts most.
It’s meant as a compliment, but it’s actually invalidating.
It implies that the only acceptable kind of autism is the one that’s invisible, quiet, and easy to tolerate.
You wouldn’t tell someone “you’re not that blind” or “you don’t look disabled.”
Autism doesn’t have a look — it has a spectrum of experiences.
“You don’t look autistic.”
Autism doesn’t have a face. It’s not something you can “see.”
What you’re really seeing is masking — a lifetime of learning how to appear “normal” just to survive in social spaces.
The irony is, the more effectively we mask, the less people believe us.
💡 Here’s the truth:
Autistic people don’t need neurotypical advice.
We need understanding.
We need accommodations.
We need people who listen instead of dismissing, who learn instead of lecturing.
Autism isn’t a behavior problem — it’s a neurotype.
We don’t need to be “fixed.”
We need space to exist without judgment, tools that actually work for us, and communities that accept us for who we are.
So next time you think of giving an autistic person advice, try this instead:
Ask how you can make things easier for them.
Ask what helps when they’re overwhelmed.
Ask what support looks like in their world.
Because the best advice for autistic people doesn’t come from “fixing” us —
It comes from listening to us.
16/10/2025
October marks Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) awareness month and the focus this year is on the many faces of the neurological condition.
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I am passionate about working with children and adults alike to heal, empower and inspire them to manage their stress and anxiety in a natural, holistic way. Using Counselling and other Alternative Therapies, I have brought the traditional and alternative together, providing a unique, intuitive and individualised therapy approach.
Having a son with Autism led me to the realisation that the only way I could help him reach his full potential was to teach him how to self-regulate his own stress and anxiety. To do this I also needed to learn how to manage my own and so from this, the idea for Rainbow Light Therapies was born. After years of training, attending endless workshops and working in the school system in both the mainstream and special educational settings, this business launched in 2014.
Rainbow Light Therapies offers services centering around stress and anxiety management including:
· Kids and Teens Group and Individual Managing Anxiety Sessions and Workshops
· Kids, Teens and Adults Reiki Workshops
· Kids and Teens Intuitive Workshops
· Kids, Teens and Adults Intuitive Healings
· Kids, Teens and Adults Holistic Counselling Workshops
· Australian Bush Flower Essences Consultations and
· Individual and Family Counselling Sessions for every member of the family.
Full qualifications and insurance for all services offered and accreditation with IICT (International Institute for Complementary Therapies) and the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) are assured and displayed on www.rainbowlighttherapies.com.au. I also hold a current Working with Children Check and first aid qualifications and adhere to the *Code of Conduct for General Health Service Providers as set out by the Health Commission.
