Bringing together the many parts, so we can maximize growth.
We use experts from multiple fields to custom build a ‘map’ of what, how, and when after evaluation. And we’re here for the journey - collaborating with schools, providers, and supporting parents along the way.
With focus that remains person-centered.
Schools
Neurosequential Model in Education (NME)
The Neurosequential Model in Education (NME) is a classroom-based approach to support school staff and children to learn more about brain development and the impact of developmental trauma on a child’s ability to function in a classroom. The NME model has evolved from the collaborative efforts with educators to develop a parallel and complementary program for education.
Schools that have implemented these practices with us saw:
70% drop in referrals.
200% more time in class learning.
The NME helps teachers understand that children’s behavioral issues are often more related to impoverished or undeveloped skills rather than ‘bad’ behavior
The goal of NME is to help the teaching team (and students) understand basic principles of brain development and apply this to the classroom
NME is not a specific educational intervention as such; it is a developmentally sensitive and biologically respectful approach to education which helps us understand and support a child’s readiness for learning
We walk you through the steps and bring meaning to trauma-informed care by helping you put it in action. It is a way of being, not another curriculum. We will guide you through training, development of a Zen Den, data collection to track changes on your campus, and help create sustainable change for the betterment of your students and staff.
The NME has been designed to help those in the field of education (headteachers, teachers, classroom assistants, NestEd’s, educational psychologists and clinicians develop a series of educationally based therapeutic activities that are consistent with the sequence of the developing brain. The most rapid periods of brain growth occur during the first four years of a child’s life, which is when developmental trauma can have such a profound and devastating impact on brain development and functioning.
Family
Neuropsychological Evaluation &
Neurosequential Model of Caregiving (NMC)
Our providers specialize not just in a quick look at children. We are highly specialized evaluators with expertise in Autism, specific types of memory and attention needs, trauma, and learning difficulties. While we provide a diagnosis, often required to access services, we look beyond this to provide highly attuned support for family and child.
We help you understand:
What makes your child tick?
How to be your child’s best advocate.
And, just as importantly:
Support you, as a human, raising a neurodiverse child.
The Neurosequential Model offers us a new intellectual blueprint for understanding the unfolding impacts of trauma on the developing brain and a uniquely rhythmic guide to healing.
Originally developed by the pioneering Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Dr. Bruce Perry, the Neurosequential Model has evolved and now become an umbrella term for a set of parallel and complementary programs: The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMTTM), the Neurosequential Model of Caregiving (NMC) and the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME).
Dr. Bruce Perry and his team at the Neurosequential Network have worked diligently over the last two decades to distil and simplify the neuroscience research to help us understand what we need as clinicians, educators and caregivers to promote healing and recovery in those who have suffered early life adversity. The NMT is not a therapy but essentially a problem-solving approach that offers a uniquely creative guidebook to help select and sequence therapeutic interventions, educational activities and enrichment experiences that match the developmental needs of each child, young person and adult.
Providers
Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
As a service, our approach to assessment is firmly embedded in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. The NMT assessment is designed to provide a neurodevelopmental framework that compliments findings from other assessments and ensures that all clinical information is organized in a developmentally sensitive and biologically respectful way. One of the key advantages of the NMT assessment is it helps to shed light on the neuro developmental impacts of early life adversity, trauma and neglect on specific brain-related skills from the brainstem through the cortex. This information is organized in specific ways which helps us:
Reduce ‘siloing’ of professions, so we can recenter focus on the individual.
Create a unique brain map for each individual.
Develop a treatment plan that integrates what we know about how the brain changes.
Guide the selection and sequencing of therapeutic activities within the context of a therapeutic web of recommendations.
The NMTTM assessment is helpful for professionals when:
A child or young person has complex and multiple needs that are difficult to understand
Therapeutic interventions are no longer effective or achieving sustainable change
The caregiving challenge and the therapeutic needs of parents are not fully understood
The NMT assessment helps us build a therapeutic web of understanding around the needs of the whole family, supports knowing when and how to sequence therapeutic interventions and helps professionals to look through the lens of neurodevelopment.
No one of us is the expert in everything.
We make room for parents to be parents. Teachers to teach. And each related provider to have their place in a sequential, coordinated, and individualized plan.
Meet the team
Linzy Moore
Doctoral Candidate
We are a nonprofit comprised of clinicians and directors who have central focus and experience with the neurodiversity - some personally, some professionally.
Julia Barta, PsyD, LEP, NCSP
Founder and Executive Director
Dara Pfeiffer, EdS, LEP, NCSP
Neurosequentially Trained Clinician
Join the team
We are expanding, quickly. We strongly encourage you to reach out if you have background in the Neurosequential Model (NM Network), are Autistic (or AuDHD), neurodiverse, or have direct experience with neurodiversity.
