Understand Behaviour
Look beneath the surface of behaviour and consider what your child's nervous system, emotions and unmet needs may be communicating.
A 6-week attachment-informed parenting programme offering practical tools to understand your child, reduce conflict and create a calmer, more connected family life.
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Connected Families is a six-week attachment-informed parenting programme for parents and carers of children and teenagers with ADHD, autism, anxiety or heightened sensitivity.
The programme may also be helpful for any parent who wants to understand their child more deeply, respond to emotional overwhelm with greater confidence and strengthen their relationship.
Through a combination of professional guidance, reflection and practical tools, the programme explores how attachment, nervous system responses and family patterns can influence behaviour, communication and connection.
The programme brings together attachment-informed understanding and practical parenting tools that can be applied within everyday family life.
Look beneath the surface of behaviour and consider what your child's nervous system, emotions and unmet needs may be communicating.
Learn how attachment experiences can influence trust, emotional safety, connection and responses within family relationships.
Develop practical ways to support your child's emotional regulation while also recognising and managing your own responses.
Explore ways to communicate more clearly, listen with curiosity and reduce patterns that may lead to repeated conflict.
Learn how to create clear and consistent boundaries while maintaining emotional safety, respect and connection.
Develop a deeper understanding of repair, connection and the small everyday changes that can strengthen family relationships.
Across six live online sessions, Kaya and Francesca will explore the emotional, relational and nervous system factors that can influence family life.
The programme combines information, guided reflection and practical strategies. There will also be opportunities to consider how the ideas relate to your own child and family.
The group format provides a supportive environment where parents can learn without judgement and recognise that they are not alone in the challenges they may be facing.
Understanding stress responses, emotional overwhelm and what behaviour may be communicating.
Exploring attachment patterns, emotional safety, trust and connection within the family.
Developing clearer, more compassionate communication and recognising recurring conflict patterns.
Supporting children through emotional overwhelm while staying aware of the parent's own nervous system.
Creating clear, compassionate and consistent limits without weakening the parent-child relationship.
Strengthening trust, repairing difficult moments and creating realistic changes that can continue beyond the programme.
Connected Families is facilitated jointly by Kaya Winney and Francesca Melluzzi.
Kaya is an integrative child and adolescent counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She specialises in attachment, trauma, relational work and parent support, with more than 18 years of experience supporting children, young people and families.
Francesca is the creator of the SASS Method, which focuses on Self-Acceptance, Authenticity, Self-Compassion and Self-Responsibility. She brings more than 20 years of professional experience and a holistic perspective to the programme. Her work supports parents to develop a deeper understanding of and compassion for their children, strengthen their somatic awareness and build their capacity to support co-regulation.
The programme includes six live 90-minute sessions held online via Zoom every Friday from 11 September to 16 October 2026.
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Sessions take place live via Zoom. Participants will need a suitable device, a reliable internet connection and a private space where they can join comfortably.
The programme is designed as a supportive group learning experience. Participants are asked to respect the privacy and personal experiences of others.
Connected Families is an educational and supportive parenting programme. It is not individual counselling, family therapy, diagnostic assessment or crisis support.
Payment is completed through Monzo. Please retain your payment confirmation. Further programme information and joining instructions will be provided separately.
Join Kaya and Francesca for six weeks of attachment-informed learning, reflection and practical support for parents and carers.
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