
Finding Balance Within Burnout:
We provide specialist consultancy designed to move away from traditional behaviourism models and toward a collaborative, neuro-affirming, anxiety-informed framework. Our approach prioritises safety, processing profiles, autonomy, and sustainable emotional regulation toolkits.
The Child
We begin by validating a child’s fundamental need for autonomy, uncovering specific sensory triggers and processing profiles. We work with the child to navigate the internal pressure that leads to overload. Together, we identify “emotional charges” and collaborate on a usable, everyday toolkit to manage overwhelm, self-advocate, and identify reasonable adjustments.
The Homebase
We see parents as rich contributors to observation and problem-solving. We look together at how anxiety affects the body and mind, helping parents move away from the exhaustion of outdated paradigms that focus on correction rather than understanding. Seeking to adopt a low-demand parenting approach, we focus on lowering the household’s collective anxiety and facilitating workable solutions to ease home life for everyone.
The Team Around the Child
We support educators to shift perspectives from compliance to curiosity, determining hidden strengths in an individual’s processing profile as a roadmap to success rather than a barrier to learning. Our goal is to create truly inclusive, neuro-affirming, and accessible learning environments which enhance a person’s educational pathway, and honours how their neurodiversity affects their ability to emotionally regulate and learn.

Our Expertise & Professional Foundation
Our Director has most recently completed a Level 3 in Supporting Children, Teenagers, and Young People with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), accredited by OCN London.
Our Company Director, Specialist Consultant, and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL Level 3) holds a Foundation Degree in Children, Parenting and Communities, and a BA (Hons) in Health and Social Care (2:1) from the Grimsby Institute (University of Hull). This academic background, alongside a working placement with parents of SEND children, enriched a deep understanding of how theory, policy and people interact in reality.
With a background facilitating Nurture programmes through Family Links and extensive experience supporting parents within the third sector, our Director went on to provide one-to-one coaching for adults and collaborated with teenagers to co-create strategies for managing anxiety, recognising that true support isn’t about a ‘quick fix’ or temporary compliance. It is about forming sustainable toolkits, providing accessible, everyday strategies, and promoting a felt sense of safety that empowers individuals to navigate their own path from threat back to flow, throughout their lives.
Our Director is also keen to complete Continuing Professional Development, updating skillsets in learning, processing, communication and language styles, emotional regulation, self-management and cognitive frameworks.
We define ourselves as Educational, Advisory, and Strategic in our collaborative and advocacy consultancy. We promote understanding neurodiversity and inclusion and look to achieve reasonable adjustments, discover how each child really senses the world around them, and looks at ways to make environmental interaction easier. It is also important to define what we are not; we are not counsellors, we are not therapists, we are not clinicians, we are not psychologists, or psychiatrists; we do not assess, diagnose or act as medical bodies.

We pride ourselves in;
Integrated Partnership Working: We act as a professional link, communicating the child’s needs and creating space for them to gain essential self-management skills.
Collaborative Toolkits: We use negotiation-based support that replaces behaviourist paradigms, which may not work with all children.
Regulating Emotions: We integrate coaching, person-centred approaches, and processing frameworks to support lifelong sustainable strategies. These methodologies support the “Assess, Plan, Do, Review” cycle mandated by the SEND Code of Practice.
Reducing and Detecting Burnout: We are specialists in our understanding of the PDA profile, supported by a personal understanding of Dyslexia, ASD, ADHD, and wider Neurodiversity.
Anxiety-Informed Advocacy: We share knowledge on using indirect language and declarative communication to reduce perceived demands and anxiety.
Bespoke Person-Centred Support: Creating unique action plans through one-to-one sessions with children and their families. We create “Pupil Passports” to help educators understand the nature of PDA.
EHCP Expertise: Our founder is currently undertaking Fundamentals of Writing EHC Plans 2.0 training, with a focus on Preparing for Adulthood, amending EHCPs, and outcomes, whilst understanding incoming ISP implications.
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Administration
contact@alberstone.co.uk
Office Lead

Lisa
BA Hons, FdA, DSL.
Company Director, Specialist Consultant and Designated Safeguard Lead.
“We believe the best consultants aren’t just educated; they are experienced.
My own home life is neurodiverse-rich, Alberstone’s hands-on expertise is personal. We understand the nuanced daily realities of neurodivergence, allowing us to bridge the gap between complex policy and the human experience.”

Members
We are looking to add members to our guild.
Alberstone is expanding. We will soon be seeking specialist associates to join our consultancy—watch this space.
