What we assess for

Infant and early childhood mental health, including the parent-infant relationship
Developmental assessment across speech, motor, play and social development
Attachment and relational difficulties, including after separation, foster care or adoption
ADHD assessment, and autism screening, with referral on to an assessor who can complete the diagnostic process
Anxiety, including separation anxiety, selective mutism and school-related fear
Mood and emotional regulation difficulties
Behavioural presentations, held as communication rather than defiance
School refusal and school-based distress
Sleep, feeding and toileting difficulties in the context of the family
Sensory processing and its effect on daily function
The impact of trauma, migration, family separation and racism on a young child

How children are engaged

Play-based and relational individual therapy
Parent-child dyadic work grounded in Roots vs Routes
Occupational therapy for regulation, sensory needs and daily routines
Parent sessions without the child present, where that is the more useful room
Whole-family sessions where the difficulty sits between people, not inside one child
Multi-caregiver sessions, including grandparents and aunties doing daily care
School and kinder liaison, and reports for schools, paediatricians and NDIS

How we hold it

Developmental norms read against your family’s own expectations, not one cultural default
Behaviour read for what it is communicating, never through reward charts or consequence ladders
Racial socialisation support for parents: what to say, when, and how young is too young
Attention to where a child has been read as older, or more responsible, than they are

Where this connects

HeldPregnancy to age three BecomingFirst Awareness · Belonging & Visibility Becoming FamilyThe same stages, read through the family Hold the Roots, Change the RouteThe parenting program alongside Looking CloserAssessment, diagnosis and treatment An Inclusive View of AttachmentThe evidence underneath

Anoshe Therapies works on Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Country, and on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We deliver online across many other Countries, and we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of each of them.

We pay respect to Elders past and present, and to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to hold knowledge about family, kinship and belonging that long predates anything we practise.

Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.