Your family deserves more than a waitlist and a pamphlet.
When families come to Open Arms Consulting, they're usually at one of a few crossroads. Some just got the diagnosis and feel completely at sea. Some have been navigating this for years and have hit a wall they can't seem to get past alone. Some are looking ahead — to school transitions, to adolescence, to adulthood — and the road forward feels terrifying.
Wherever you are, there is a path forward. And I'll help you find it.
All support is offered virtually, making it accessible to families across Canada and around the world. For families in Montreal, in-person options are available.
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For families who need flexible, personalized guidance without a long-term commitment, one-on-one consulting offers exactly that.
This is the space where you bring your real questions, your current challenges, your 2am panic spirals — and we work through them together. It might look like unpacking a rough week and figuring out what your child's behaviour is really communicating. It might look like preparing for an IEP meeting, navigating a school conflict, or working through a specific transition that's coming up fast.
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The RDA is a comprehensive developmental assessment designed to give us a clear, honest, and deeply human picture of where your child is right now. Not compared to a neurotypical standard. Not reduced to a checklist of deficits. But a real understanding of your child's developmental profile — their strengths, their gaps, their unique way of moving through the world — and a personalized roadmap for exactly what comes next.
The RDA includes:
A full assessment session where we observe, review, and evaluate your child's current developmental stage through video observation and a thorough parent interview. Then a dedicated review session where I walk you through the findings, present your child's developmental profile, and we map out your goals together. You'll also receive a comprehensive written report — something you can return to, share with your child's school, and use as the foundation for everything we build going forward.
This isn't a cold clinical report. It's a document that finally makes your child make sense — and shows you exactly where to go from here.
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This is the deep work. The whole-family, relationship-first, nothing-left-out transformation that I built Open Arms Consulting to deliver.
Rooted in Relationship Development Intervention — but expanded, personalized, and designed to go further than the traditional model — this program is for families who are ready to stop surviving and start truly thriving.
What makes this different from traditional RDI:
Most RDI programs stop at the front door. Ours doesn't. We bring the work into every space your child inhabits — collaborating with schools, navigating community environments, addressing the real-world challenges that arise outside the therapy room & the home environment. We fill in developmental gaps that often get missed or overlooked. We look at the whole child, the whole family, and the whole life you're trying to build together.
Alongside the core RDI framework, we weave in support for the things that traditional programs leave on the table — building your child's emotional resilience, supporting your own wellbeing as a parent, developing independence and life skills, advocacy tools for navigating educational systems, and guidance for preparing for the transitions ahead, including adolescence and adulthood.
Not Sure Where to Start?
That's exactly what the discovery call is for.
Thirty minutes. No pressure. No obligation. Just a real conversation about where your family is, what you need, and whether Open Arms Consulting is the right fit for you.
You don't need to have it together before you reach out. Figuring it out together, that's literally the whole point.
Virtual sessions available worldwide · In-person sessions available in Montreal, QC & surrounding areas.