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Our Success Stories
Watch, listen and read my client reviews on how Brain Development UK is helping parents to transform their child to be the best version of themselves.
Charlie on his journey to becoming his best self
Linda shares how her son, Charlie, has made remarkable progress since working with Lara. From improved sleep and better coordination to noticeable advances in his speech, the positive changes have had a meaningful impact on everyday life. Lara helped Linda understand the importance of building the right foundations for Charlie's development, giving him the support he needed to thrive and allowing the family to see what is truly possible.
"It's been fascinating to watch and see the positive changes in his speech."
Transforming Co-ordination & Wellbeing
After working with Lara for 4 months, we started noticing improvements in our 10-year-old son's coordination, and he is now able to ride a bike.
Early intervention is important, and working on primitive reflexes has made a real difference. The Rezzimax has especially helped improve his coordination, and diet has also been vitally important.
"Thank you for all your support. It is reassuring to know we can always reach out to Lara when difficulties arise."
Emotional Development & Positive Change
Emily shares how her son has transformed since working with Lara over 12months. While the changes have been most noticeable in his emotional development, she has also seen significant improvements in his physical health, learning, and overall wellbeing. He now approaches life's challenges with greater understanding, acceptance, and emotional resilience. As a result, family life has become calmer, more connected, and much happier.
"We've been blown away by the techniques to help my son"
From Daily Meltdowns to Growing Confidence
Charlotte shares the incredible changes she has seen in her autistic son after six months of working with Lara. What were once up to ten daily meltdowns have reduced to very few, bringing a greater sense of calm and confidence to family life. Lara has provided guidance, support, and practical knowledge, helping the family navigate difficult times while focusing on areas such as diet, primitive reflex integration, and balance.
"Working on diet, primitive reflexes, and balance has been a key part of our son's progress."
Increased calmness in managing emotions
In just three to four months of working with Lara there has been significant improvements speech, communication, and ability to manage emotions. .
Following Lara's guidance, Amit's parents have worked step by step to build the primative developmental foundations, using a personalised programme that included laser therapy, vibration techniques, and activities to support nervous system regulation. They also found that making dietary changes, including removing gluten, played an important role in helping to reduce his hyperactivity.
Autism speech delay recovery story
Sophia & Richard share the powerful story of their son Roman’s transformation from being non-verbal and withdrawn to showing remarkable progress in speech, learning, and social interaction within just a few months. Through a targeted brain development, Roman began communicating better, engaging more, and preparing for a mainstream school, something his parents once thought was impossible.
Lara was able to devise a programme which was easy to follow and continued to provide support where I got stuck.
We started working with Lara in February 2026, we went completely in to the programme and literally took on all the advice to help our son who is now 8 years old.
Since working with Lara we have seen some amazing gains, such as sense of smell- now able to identify good an and bad smells. Much more functional language, lots of questions as in why, which he never did before. My son is much more calmer, and in routine. Started to get involved in pretend play, something he has never done before. Can tolerate hair cuts and teeth brushing much better now. Stopped putting his hands in mouth. Able to hold a spoon and feed himself. So many amazing gains, we are still on this journey. Lara was able to devise a programme which was easy to follow and continued to provide support where I got stuck. No question is too big or small for Lara she always comes back with answers to all my questions with guidance and support.
Other parents who are looking in to finding support to help their child, Lara is an amazing person to support you on your child’s healing journey. Lara is always full of love, Praise and support. The future looks so bright for my son, and the same can be for any other child who has so many difficulties navigating in this world. Thank you Lara, and forever grateful.
Nafisa, Birmingham
Working with Lara has been a pivotal part of our healing journey.
Working with Lara has been a pivotal part of our healing journey. She carried out an in-person assessment of my son and identified several retained reflexes. From there, she created a highly personalised plan, clearly explaining each retained reflex and how it might present in his behaviour. Her insights closely matched what we had been observing.
The plan included practical exercises along with clear guidance on how to carry them out effectively. Since starting the programme, the progress has been remarkable. One of the first major changes was my son’s ability to remain in the classroom and complete his work. Within just three months, he also advanced by four book bands.
What once felt like a structured programme has naturally become part of our daily routine. We’ve continued to follow all of Lara’s recommendations, and the improvements we’ve seen are a true reflection of her expertise in primitive reflexes and functional neurology. Her support has genuinely helped shift the direction of my son’s journey.
Sarah, London
Fast forward 9 months and my son has made some great improvements both in speech and in behaviour.
I got in touch with Lara around 9 months ago after I was reading a book "Disconnected Kids" by Dr Melillo. I saw that Lara a few years ago had gone over to learn off Dr Melillo primarily to help her own son at the time who was going through some developmental issues.
Some of the things that Dr Melillo mentioned made sense to me and I liked the positive messaging he put out. Basically saying many of these kids are geniuses and they just need to work on bringing up other areas of the brain that were not as well developed.
My own son who was 2 years old at the time had also been going through developmental issues such as stimming, hyperactivity and had a very limited vocabulary whilst not liking certain changes in routine.
Conversely he also had an amazing memory and could already do the alphabet and count to 20 at a very young age so I was searching for some solutions to help bring up his communication and improve his stimming.
I decided to make the trip from the northwest of England down to Kent to meet Lara and liked her positive outlook straight away. She told me that my son had some "retained primitive reflexes" that would have been holding back his development.
Once I was back home Lara sent me a plan to help my son's development using various exercises and also utilising pieces of equipment such as a Rezzimax Device. This in many ways has been invaluable as I was able to easily integrate this piece of equipment and others into my son's day to day living.
Lara also helped me to make some changes to our living environment to make it less toxic and remove any potential extra stressors from my son's environment. Simple changes such as buying a water filter, air purifier, non toxic cookware ...all of which are hard to quantify but have zero downsides and it just made sense to do from an overall health standpoint.
Along the way Lara has helped me to modify his initial plan to allow a more flexible approach that takes into consideration my son's age and attention span / ability to follow instruction. Lara also put me in touch with nutritional specialist Vicky Finlayson who has helped to tailor his nutrition to bring about further improvements whilst identifying any issues which may of been affecting his development.
Fast forward 9 months and my son has made some great improvements both in speech and in behaviour. I am thankful for the help and guidance that Lara has provided and she has really helped me to understand what I need to do to help my son.
Paul, North West UK
Without Lara, this would be a frustratingly slow process, but now we have all her expertise within easy reach
We first came to Lara around 6 months ago, after reading Dr Melillo's book Disconnected Kids and trying to work through the tests and exercises in his book ourselves. We realised that the condition of our 6 year old child was slightly complex and would take time and skill to resolve, so it was hugely encouraging to find via the Melillo website that we had a Melillo specialist, Lara, close at hand!
Now that we are well on the road of addressing our child's condition and behaviour, we realise there are layers to peel back, but although we may still have a considerable journey ahead of us, we have Lara's immensely valuable support. She's super responsive on WhatsApp whenever we have a question to ping her, and she has a seemingly infinite resource of strategies and therapies that can be tailored to best suit the child. In addition, she works with other professionals such as nutritionalist and eye tracking specialist so that the child can receive a truly holistic treatment. Without Lara, this would be a frustratingly slow process, but now we have all her expertise within easy reach; both for the big things such as recognising symptoms in our child that may not be obvious to us, and for the smaller things such as simply checking whether we are doing an exercise the correct way!
There's nothing more you could wish for your child than that they would be able to access education and social life sufficiently, so it really feels good to know that with Lara, you are doing everything you possibly can.
Cheryl, UK
The improvements are remarkable...
I have been working with Lara to support my 10-year-old twins, both of have Down syndrome, an additional visual impairment and behaviours seen in autism and ADHD they were showing signs of nervous system dysregulation, they had self-injurious behaviours like biting and hair pulling.
I had previously done a lot of work on sensory processing with them, which had helped a little, but I never knew there was another foundational layer that was holding them back.
Over around 6 months of working on retained reflexes, strength, balance and eye tracking. The improvements have been remarkable — better social interaction and communication, improved motor skills, balance, coordination, energy levels and sleep. Lara also introduced us to Vicky, who supports gut health and complements the work beautifully.
Lara is knowledgeable, caring, and incredibly supportive. She taught me everything I needed to be able to support Andrew independently once Jack's programme was established. Progress is slower with their more complex needs, but we are absolutely getting there.
Lara has given me the understanding of how my childrens brains have developed and why they have their traits and behaviours that can be challenging, this has helped me so much in moments of overwhelm.
Rachel, UK
Lara has continued to provide support and advice whenever we need it...
My son Kyler was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and was experiencing lots of stimming, self injurious behaviour and a developmental delay. We tried speech therapy, occupational therapy and ABA therapy but did not see any improvements. We became frustrated and looked to find other solutions.
After some research we came across primitive reflex therapy and that is when we first spoke with Lara. She explained to both myself and my wife about the brain and the gut and how they are connected and affect children like Kyler. We also discussed some of the environmental factors contributing to Kyler’s overall health such as mold, heavy metals as well what causes the inflammation in his body.
In our first session Lara she connected us on a pathway to healing. She showed us primitive reflex exercises and was really helpful and informative. She helped us understand how to perform them and what their purpose was. Lara also recommended the use of sauna blankets & dry brushing in order to help with detoxification. She told us about the benefits of seeing a chiropractor who specialises in the brain and laser treatments. Through Lara we managed to see a doctor for a week long intensive therapy where we truly understood primitive reflex integration and brain therapy.
As well as this Lara introduced us to a functional medicine practitioner. We discovered that Kyler could potentially be experiencing many issues related to his gut and other areas. We did organic acid tests, stool tests and mycotoxin tests which showed a clear picture of Kyler’s health.
Since meeting Lara and going through all the therapies she has recommended we have seen a huge improvement in Kyler. He now attends specialist provision school and is doing really well academically. His behaviour has really settled and we continue to work with a functional medicine practitioner and test regularly.
Lara has continued to provide support and advice whenever we need it and has proved to be an important part of Kyler’s recovery. At the time when we reached out to her we had little hope but today we see a path to helping Kyler live a happy and independent life.
Ellie, Essex
...balance, co-ordination and strength have improved greatly
We have focussed on core strength and muscle tone, and she has taught us specific exercises to concentrate on each one. Overlaying this we have used various sensory stimulus such as sound, special blue glasses and the fabulous vibrating Rezzimax (which my little one likes too)
It was a lot for us to learn and take on for both my husband, myself and my son … but with Lara’s understanding and patience we have worked through it all, and am so glad I did.
As a teenage boy I wouldn’t say my son is particularly committed or dedicated to much (other than video games!) but it has surprised me how well he has adjusted to this. I am very proud of him and can see many changes.
Specifically his balance, co-ordination and strength have improved greatly. He was walking in front of me the other day with my husband and I did not recognise the much more regular gate of his walking from a year ago!! It was a special moment for me.
The journey continues. The communication side of his challenges are still a work in progress and we have now moved on to changes in his diet (which again he has got on with quite well – so unexpected!!!). We are also awaiting a Neural Zoomer Test result which should also help pinpoint further ways to help him.
I could not recommend Lara more. As her son has had his own challenges she understands the viewpoint of a parent and our yearning to want the absolute best for our children.
I wish her all the very best with starting her very exciting and forward thinking practice, and am sure she will be inundated with lots of amazing and successful Clients. Thank you Lara.
Mother in South London
Passion & Dedication
Lara has incredible passion and dedication to help children no matter what difficulties they are facing. Whether it’s learning challenges, behavioural issues, neuro-developmental disorders implementing her method is truly life changing.
Her knowledge on primitive reflexes is fantastic and these methods are focused on the whole body taking into account overall health, gut health, immune and nervous system and how this can influence imbalances in the brain so that you ultimately improve overall.
Maria, Guildford, Surrey
...patiently Lara is helping me and she is always my side.
I have been working with Lara for 4 months now. She was eagerly looking forward to help my son with huge knowledge of her profession.
My son is 5 and half years old he was having lots of difficulties. I have worked with occupational therapist but they didn’t draw my attention towards reflexes but Lara told me how reflexes affect development of a child. I started working on my son with her guidance. In couple of months I can see good results, we still have a way to go but amazingly and patiently Lara is helping me and she is always my side. I am focusing on primitive reflexes she has taught me and we are focusing on each one. We are using the sensory system, the magical Rezzimax device is brilliant in helping my son with his sensory processing and feeling his body.
After her guidance I can see my son’s fine motor skills and his speech have improved. I’m feeling very grateful and confident that she came in my life and showed me the correct way to help my son.
Sana, London
Amazing!!
We have been working with the lovely Lara for about a year now. She is hugely committed to helping my child and has an absolute passion and huge knowledge base for her work. She has got me super interested in it all too!
My son is 13 and has communication and co-ordination challenges. When we first came to Lara and she tested him, he still had a lot of his primitive reflexes. With her guidance and care we have worked on each of them to the point where they have now all integrated. Amazing!!