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Child & Family Developmental Consultation

Support for Families & Caregivers

Personalized developmental consultation and coaching for families of autistic and neurodivergent children, children with developmental differences, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of their child’s needs. A diagnosis is not required.

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What is Child & Family Developmental Consultation?

Understanding your child’s development, behavior, and relationships

Child & Family Developmental Consultation is the heart of my private practice: a one-on-one partnership with the adults in a child's life to understand what's happening developmentally and find a way forward that fits your child, your values, and your daily routines.

Sessions are flexible and shaped around what will be most useful. We might work together with your child present, meet virtually for caregiver-only conversation, or review short videos of everyday interactions and reflect on what we're seeing. Often, those small moments are where the biggest "aha"s live.

The goal is understanding first, then practical support that fits your actual child and family.

Consultation can
help with

  • Making sense of behaviors that feel confusing, big, or stuck

  • Sensory processing, regulation, and meltdowns

  • Communication, engagement, and social-emotional development

  • Play and building connection through your child's interests

  • Daily routines, including mealtimes, sleep, and transitions

  • Infant and toddler concerns, including soothing, feeding, attachment, and early connection

  • Understanding autism, neurodivergence, or other developmental differences, with or without a formal diagnosis

  • Preparing for school meetings and IEPs, including attending alongside you when helpful

  • Parenting values, hard moments, and big decisions

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BEYOND OUR SESSIONS

Practical support you can use in everyday life

I create individualized materials based on our work together, which may include written summaries, developmental recommendations, visual supports, and practical resources. The goal is to give you something useful to return to and build on between sessions.

For families who want more structured autism support through play, I also offer PLAY Project® Consultation, an evidence-based caregiver coaching model.

Learn about the PLAY Project®

Questions about consultation

What families often want to know

  • Child & Family Developmental Consultation is designed for families with children across childhood, with support tailored to the child’s developmental level, needs, and family context.

  • No. Families may seek consultation with or without a diagnosis. The work begins with what you're noticing, wondering about, or finding difficult.

  • Not always. Sessions may be caregiver-only or may include your child, depending on what would be most helpful.

  • There isn't one prescribed format. We might talk through a concern, review everyday interactions, observe your child, play together, look at a video, prepare for a meeting, or think through practical strategies to try at home.

  • Yes. Depending on your needs, consultation may include school or program observations, IEP or team meetings, and collaboration with educators, clinicians, or other members of your child's care team.

  • No. Wonder Brightly's private services are consultative and educational, not psychotherapy or mental health treatment.

  • No. Developmental Therapy is provided through Illinois Early Intervention when authorized through a child's IFSP. Child & Family Developmental Consultation is a private Wonder Brightly service and is not part of the Illinois EI system.

  • Child & Family Developmental Consultation is Brittany's broader, individualized consultation service. PLAY Project® Consultation is a specific evidence-based model centered on caregiver coaching and play, particularly for children with autism and other developmental differences.

  • Consultations are available in-home in the Chicago area, virtually in Illinois and beyond, and in schools or community settings when helpful.

  • We’ll begin with a discovery call to talk about your child, what you’re noticing or wondering about, and whether working together feels like the right fit.

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Let's talk about what you're noticing.

You don't need to know exactly what kind of support you need before reaching out. Tell me a little about your child, what's been feeling hard or unclear, and what you're hoping to better understand.

We'll talk about whether Child & Family Developmental Consultation, PLAY Project® Consultation, or another path makes the most sense.

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