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They say it takes a village,

I want to be a part of yours!

Alyssa Wynn

My name is Alyssa. I am an advocate, “bedside” researcher, consultant, mental health coach, and a confident mom to a wonderful teen with autism. I didn’t choose this journey, but I have 15 years of experience walking this path long enough to gather the tools, systems, and hard-won wisdom.

Now I want to share them with you.

If you are here, then you must be tired. Maybe you are stressing over all the therapies, appointment meetings, paperwork. While also tackling the behaviors, emotions, meltdowns, and fatigue both you and your loved one are experiencing. Maybe you have an entire village of support, or none. Wherever you are, you are welcome here.

You don’t have to do this alone; we are friends; we can do this together.

Why I started this blog

The beginning

Over the past several years, my daughter has been through so much — major mental health struggles, skull and spine surgeries, therapies, and multiple diagnoses including autism, depression, and many others. Walking through these things showed me something.

Many parents don’t have access to clear information. Some don’t know where to start, or how to advocate for their child or themselves. Many feel alone.

What Ive learned

Parents and caregivers should not have to become full-time researchers, Googling everything to understand their child, their family, or themselves.

However, I have done just that — spending many years digging through articles, asking questions of doctors and therapists, trying systems, failing at routines, and building structures that work in actual homes, with real families.

How I can help

I specialize in taking strategies, systems, techniques, routines, visual support and daily life tools and turning them into something simple, flexible and doable.

I don’t believe in perfect (we still struggle with things daily); I believe in actual families doing the best they can with what they have.

I am to help you with your loved one, but also to help you, the caregiver, with ways to fill your cup.

What this space is about

This blog is here to help you.

Understand strategies without all the jargon

Take the systems, schedule, and routines and change them for your family

Feel encouraged, not judged

Get ideas you can use and frugal ways to implement them.