Your child. Your Christmas. A plan built around both.
Personalised specialist Christmas planning for parents who know the festive season can ask a LOT from their child’s nervous system and don't want to spend December constantly firefighting, second-guessing and wondering what to do.
You tell me about your child and the Christmas you're actually going to have. I help you work out the rest.
YOU CAN LOVE CHRISTMAS AND STILL DREAD PARTS OF IT.
After supporting children and families for nearly 20 years, I know how difficult Christmas can be when your child needs the world to work a little differently.
You can be excited about Christmas while already wondering whether they'll manage the school performance, what will happen at Christmas dinner, whether the family party will be too much, how long you should stay or what you'll do if they desperately want to go somewhere but can't manage it when the day arrives.
And then there's everybody else.
Will they understand if your child doesn't want a hug? If they need their own food? If they disappear upstairs? If you leave after 30 minutes?
There is so much invisible work involved.
You're anticipating, preparing, packing, explaining, watching, adapting and constantly deciding whether to encourage your child or recognise that their body has had enough.
And somewhere amongst all of that...
you're supposed to enjoy Christmas too.
Christmas, Sorted is designed to take some of that thinking off you.
BECAUSE CHRISTMAS DOESN’T START ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
For a vulnerable nervous system, the build-up can begin weeks beforehand.
School becomes less predictable. There are rehearsals, Christmas jumper days, performances and parties. Decorations appear, weekends fill up, family visits increase, bedtimes change and there can be more noise, people, anticipation, waiting and uncertainty…. often with less recovery between everything.
And your child might love Christmas.
That's important.
Because enjoying something and having the nervous-system capacity for it are not the same thing.
A child can desperately want to go to the Christmas party and become overwhelmed when they get there. They can adore seeing their grandparents and still need hours to recover afterwards.
I don't want to help you remove Christmas.
I want to help make Christmas more accessible to your child.
“BUT THEY WERE FINE A MINUTE AGO...”
You've probably heard it.
Your child arrives at the family gathering and things are going brilliantly.
They're playing, laughing and joining in.
Then something seemingly tiny happens.
Someone sits in their chair. Dinner isn't what they expected. Their cousin touches their new toy. Someone asks them to come for a family photograph.
And suddenly everything changes.
Everybody else sees the photograph.
You see the poor sleep, the rushed morning, the different clothes, the journey, the unfamiliar house, the noise, the questions, the food, the people and the effort of holding everything together.
That's where my approach is different.
I don't just look at what happened at 100.
I help you understand what your child's brain and body may have been managing on the way there and, importantly, what you can actually do with that information.
WHAT IF YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO WORK IT ALL OUT IN THE MOMENT?
Imagine going into December already knowing more about what might be difficult for your child, the earlier signs that their capacity is changing and what you could do before things reach overwhelm.
You've already thought about sensory needs, expectations, preparation, what other adults need to know, your exit plan and what recovery might need to look like afterwards.
And if your child wakes up on the day and simply doesn't have the capacity for the original plan, you have options.
I can't promise you a Christmas without difficult moments.
But I can help you stop starting from scratch every time one happens.
Less second-guessing. Less firefighting. More understanding, preparation and confidence.
THIS ISN’T ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE.
You don't need another download telling you to take headphones, use a visual timetable, pack snacks and find somewhere quiet.
Those things can be useful.
But the difficult part is knowing:
What actually matters for MY child? When should I use it? What am I looking for? What should I change? And when do I encourage them versus protect their capacity?
That's where Christmas, Sorted is different.
This is personalised specialist Christmas planning.
You bring everything you already know about your child.
I bring my specialist knowledge and almost 20 years of experience.
We put the two together.
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CHILD
You'll complete my detailed Christmas, Sorted Parent Questionnaire.
I'll learn about your child's communication, sensory sensitivities and seeking, body awareness, regulation, early signs of overwhelm, current capacity, demands they find difficult, recovery and the things you already know help.
You don't need to use clinical language.
You know your child. I'll do the clinical thinking.
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CHRISTMAS
You'll choose up to six Christmas events or situations you'd like help thinking through.
That could be the school performance, visiting Santa, a family party, travelling, visiting grandparents, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, Christmas dinner, Boxing Day or something completely unique to your family.
You tell me where you're already thinking:
“I genuinely don't know how we're going to manage this.”
That's where we start.
I DO THE THINKING WITH YOU
I personally review what you've told me about your child and use my specialist knowledge to create practical recommendations around the situations you've chosen.
For the key events that need more planning, we'll think about:
BEFORE — preparation, predictability, sensory needs, timing, expectations and what could be reduced or changed beforehand.
DURING — what to look for, early signs of reduced capacity, regulation support, where demands can change and when it might be time to adapt the plan.
AFTER — what recovery could look like and whether the rest of the day, or even the following day, needs protecting.
Because getting through the event isn't the only thing that matters.
What it costs your child afterwards matters too.
AND WHAT IF THE PLAN NEEDS TO CHANGE?
Yesterday they desperately wanted to go.
Today they won't get dressed.
You've already paid for it, everyone is expecting you and you're wondering whether to encourage them because they might enjoy it once they're there.
This is one of the hardest decisions parents make.
Your plan will help you think in terms of:
GO — their capacity looks available and the right support is around them.
CHANGE — they may still be able to access it, but something about today's plan needs adapting.
STAY HOME — their body is giving you enough information to recognise that the likely cost is simply too high today.
This isn't about avoiding every difficult experience.
It's about helping you make decisions using information rather than guilt.
A plan should support your child. It should never become another demand they have to meet.
WHAT ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSE?
Sometimes supporting your child's needs isn't even the hardest part.
Explaining them to everybody else is.
Where it's useful, we'll also think about simple language you can use with family or other adults:
“Please don't ask them for a hug. They'll come to you if they want one.”
“We're not sure how long we'll stay. We're going to see how they're managing.”
“They'll have their own food. Please don't make a fuss about what they're eating.”
“If they go somewhere quiet, they're not being rude. They're taking the space they need.”
Clear. Kind. Confident.
Without you having to constantly explain or defend your parenting.
✔ Comprehensive Parent Questionnaire — so I can understand your child's individual communication, sensory needs, regulation, capacity and recovery.
✔ My personal specialist review — I review the information myself; this isn't automatically generated.
✔ Planning around up to six Christmas situations that actually matter to your family.
✔ Personalised BEFORE → DURING → AFTER recommendations for the key situations that need them.
✔ Identification of your child's earlier warning signs, helping you notice when their nervous system may be starting to work harder.
✔ Relevant sensory and regulation recommendations, rather than a generic list of strategies.
✔ GO → CHANGE → STAY HOME decision support for those difficult on-the-day decisions.
✔ Communication and advocacy wording where needed to help other people understand.
✔ Recovery planning, because what happens after an event matters too.
✔ Your personalised Christmas, Sorted plan, bringing everything together into one practical resource you can use throughout the festive period.
YOU’RE NOT REALLY BUYING A DOCUMENT.
You're buying my specialist thinking applied to your child.
You're getting help making sense of situations you're already worried about, thinking ahead before your child reaches overwhelm and deciding what could be changed.
The plan is what you take away.
But the transformation I want is how you feel going into Christmas.
From: “I really hope they manage.”
to: “I understand what might make this difficult and I know what our options are.”
From: “What do I do now?”
to: “We've already thought about this.”
And from: “Everyone expects us to stay.”
to: “I know my child, and I'm comfortable changing the plan.”
I'm a Specialist Occupational Therapist and Sensory & Behavioural Specialist with almost 20 years' experience supporting children, families and professionals.
Through The InnerMe Project, I help adults understand what's happening underneath behaviour by looking at the child's brain, body, sensory processing, communication, nervous system, environment and capacity.
And I've supported enough families over the years to know how much invisible work parents do at Christmas.
You're often the one preparing your child, preparing everybody else for your child, remembering the food, packing what they might need, watching their face across the room, deciding when enough is enough and thinking about what you've got planned tomorrow.
I don't want to add more to your load. I want to help you carry some of it.
Hi, I'm Kate!
197
Pay £197 in full
98.50
Every month
Pay in 2 terms
65.65
Every month
Pay in 3 terms
CHOOSE A PLAN THAT WORKS FOR YOU
Find what that works for you