Winner of Australian Women's Small Business Champion award for children's services (2024)

Finalist for Australian Small Business Champion Award for Allied Health (2024)

Winner Business of the Year Maroondah Business Awards (2023)

Winner Education and Training Business Maroondah Business Awards (2023)

CEO, Play Therapist, Counsellor, Supervisor, Co-owner of Building Better Brains, a multiaward winning allied health clinic specilising in supporting children and families

Sian is a passionate clinical play therapist, professional supervisor and creative therapist specializing in early trauma and attachment difficulties. She works with children and families in a systemic way and believes that brain based parenting, teacher education and support are key to helping this next generation of children thrive, along with harnessing the power of play.  Sian is a proud mum of two boys, one trainee therapy dog and an aloof cat!

Building Better Brains is a unique multi award winning allied health company who specialise in providing a range of person centred individual and group therapy programs and training. We work from our affirming mission statement that ‘Together We Can’ – this concept translates across the way we work, the way we lead, the way we encourage collaboration in our team, the way we build communities of parents, professionals and educators, and the way we aim to build better brains!
Our systemic vision of supporting the child and then building education and capacity in the systems around the child, bridges both macro and micro change that impacts current and future generations, helping us all to build better brains!

At Building Better Brains, we are a dynamic multi disciplinary team consisting of creative counsellors, psychologists, dance and movement therapists, creative arts therapists, art therapists, play therapists, social workers, somatic trauma therapists, drama therapists, early years therapists, speech therapists, educators, trainers and keynote speakers. We work with our clients in a one on one capacity as well as offering group therapy options, parent support and training, couples and family therapy and training and consultancy services.

At Building Better Brains we work with a creative strengths based approach with a neuroaffirming lens.  Our therapists and facilitators focus on building skills of attachment, regulation, confidence, self expression and communication that help support healthier relationships and functioning for life.

Together we can build better brains! Choose the best for your family today.

 www.buildingbetterbrains.com.au