Testimonial: Christopher

Meeting Viv and her team was a pivotal point in my son’s journey through the maze of sensory defensiveness, and all of the impacts of this on our life. It was such a relief to learn that there was a reason for all of those things that we endured on a daily basis with Christopher, that we had not just raised an unruly, aggressive and angry little boy. Finally, we had some answers as to why he reacted to his environment in the ways that he did, and some answers as to how to approach this condition in order to bring some normalcy back into our lives.

The journey was not an easy one, and is still ongoing for us...but we now have the tools to bring things back on an even keel when it seems that we are spiralling backwards again. We were amazed at how the therapressure brushing and the sensory diet helped Christopher make sense of his environment, and gave us a much calmer, reasonable child. It was hard work, though, working through his program, following the sensory diet, the brushing, and the therapeutic listening. We found the programme required persistence, commitment and determination from all of the family. But the mammoth effort was worth it...Christopher is now more in tune with his own body and what he needs to achieve a level of calm, and we now know how to help him to use the tools that provide for his needs. We certainly haven’t ‘cured’ the sensory defensiveness, with lots of ups and downs, but we certainly have some measure of control over it, and this has had tremendous benefits in his schooling, his social skills and his family relationships. The ‘old’ Christopher still comes out from time to time, especially when there is a lot of stress in his life, but the lovable Christopher shines through more and more.