25 years in the room with ND families. Three neurodivergent kids of her own. This is what she built.
Dr. Allison Sibley is a licensed child and family therapist based in the Washington, DC area. She has 25 years of clinical experience working with neurodivergent children and their families.
She also has three neurodivergent children. The clinical knowledge and the lived experience have never been separate for her. They point to the same things.
Over the course of her career, she has worked with hundreds of ND families in clinical settings. She has watched parents arrive exhausted, leave with strategies for their children, and return a few months later having implemented none of them because they had no support for themselves in between.
25+ years of clinical practice
The pattern was consistent enough that she started paying attention to it. ND families arrive with children who have complex needs. The clinical system responds with services for the child: therapy, OT, speech, behavioral support. The parent coordinates all of it. Nobody coordinates support for the parent.
This is not a small problem. The research is clear that parent wellbeing and regulation directly affect child outcomes. You cannot build a support system for a neurodivergent child that ignores the person holding it together.
“The parent is the intervention. We have known this for a long time. We just have not built anything that treats it like one.”
Parent Practices is her attempt to build that thing. Not a therapy program. Not generic parenting coaching. A structured daily practice, grounded in clinical methodology, built specifically for the experience of raising a neurodivergent child.
She has been running early versions of the program through her clinical practice for several years. Parent Practices is the formalized program that makes it available to parents outside her direct caseload.
Parent Practices runs with a small, clinically supervised team. Every Parent Circle is facilitated by a trained parent coach, with clinical oversight provided throughout.
Julianne provides clinical oversight for the program and is available for direct consultation at the Premium Growth Plan tier. She works closely with Dr. Sibley to ensure the quality and safety of every parent's experience in the program.
Bios will be added once coaches are hired. Target: fall 2026.
Bios will be added once coaches are hired. Target: fall 2026.
That is the premise. The program is an ongoing attempt to prove it, with the data to back it up over time.
