The Thrive Hub is a supportive membership for families navigating similar challenges with their children. You don’t have to do this alone
Led by Vicky Finlayson and Lara Barnes, The Thrive Hub is a monthly or annual membership designed for families navigating similar challenges with their children. It offers a safe, supportive space to connect, share understanding, feel truly heard, and move forward together, guided by Lara and Vicky’s expertise and best-practice advice.
Together, as a community, families are supported to:
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Understand what may be driving their child’s challenges
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Learn from shared experiences and best practices
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Find clarity and a realistic way forward
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Move out of overwhelm and into confidence
This is community membership about support, understanding, and progress, together.
Who is it for?
It is for families who are looking for understanding, support, and a sense of belonging.
We are here to help if you...
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Feel overwhelmed, isolated, or unsure what to do next
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Are navigating autism, neurodivergence, or complex developmental challenges
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Want to understand root causes rather than just manage symptoms
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Are seeking clarity without pressure or overwhelm
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Value shared learning, compassion, and community support
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Want to walk this journey alongside other families who truly understand
What does the Membership include?
A Community That Understands
At the heart of The Thrive Hub is community.
A shared space to...
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Talk through challenges honestly
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Celebrate progress and every win, big or small
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Support one another with kindness
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Share positivity, insight, and encouragement
There is no judgment, no comparison, just new connections and shared understanding.
Live Q&As & Group Support
Regular live Q&A sessions allow families to:
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Ask questions in a safe, supportive space
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Learn from one another’s experiences
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Gain reassurance and clarity
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Supported by Vicky and Lara, experienced parents and other professionals that we invite in on a regular basis to supportour members.
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Shared wisdom, guided with compassion
Practical Resources
Members also receive access to a growing library of supportive resources, including:
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Guidance around lab work and supplements
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Recipes and meal inspiration
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Research summaries and helpful articles
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Practical tools to support daily family life
Everything is designed to feel manageable, empowering, and supportive.
Monthly Workshops
Each month, Vicky and other professionals runs a live workshop focused on helping families understand key areas of health, communication, behaviour, and development.
Workshop topics such as:
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Autism explained
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Speech & communication
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Health & nutrition
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Lab work & testing
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Detoxification & toxic load
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Methylation & biochemistry
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Histamine & oxalates
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Sensory processing
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Sleep challenges
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Stress, anxiety & regulation
All workshops are live and recorded, so you can learn at your own pace.
Join The Waitlist
You don’t need all the answers, you just need a place where you belong.
The Thrive Hub is opening very soon. Spaces will be limited to maintain a supportive and meaningful community. You can join the waitlist here to be the first to know when we open up the membership.
What does THRIVE stand for?
T – Target Root Causes
We believe in looking beyond surface-level symptoms and asking “why is this happening?” rather than simply masking behaviours or struggles. We focus on identifying the underlying drivers that may be impacting a child’s health and nervous system, such as gut dysfunction, inflammation, immune dysregulation, nutritional deficiencies, infections, mitochondrial dysfunction, environmental triggers, nervous system stress, and biochemical imbalances. Our hope is that families leave Thrive Hub feeling calmer, more capable, more connected to their child, and confident in navigating the journey ahead with both knowledge and intuition working hand in hand 💗
H – Heal Foundationally
Healing foundationally means starting with the core building blocks of health first. Rather than chasing endless supplements or complicated interventions, we focus on supporting the body in the most fundamental ways possible, through nutrition, digestion, sleep, blood sugar balance, minerals, hydration, emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and reducing inflammatory load. Strong foundations create stability for everything else to build upon.
R – Restore Balance
Children’s bodies can become stuck in patterns of imbalance, within the nervous system, immune system, gut microbiome, hormones, inflammation pathways, or brain chemistry. Restoring balance means gently helping the body move back towards regulation, resilience, and safety so that symptoms can naturally begin to reduce as the body becomes less overwhelmed and more supported.
I – Integrate Support
Healing is never meant to happen in isolation. Families need emotional support, practical guidance, education, community, and compassionate professionals around them. Integrating support means bringing all aspects of the healing journey together, nutrition, nervous system work, functional health, emotional wellbeing, therapies, parenting support, lifestyle changes, and community connection, into one safe and supportive space. Thrive Hub exists to ensure families feel guided, understood, and never alone throughout the process.
V – Validate the Child
At the heart of Thrive Hub is the belief that our children are not projects to “fix”, they are human beings with thoughts, emotions, sensitivities, preferences, fears, personalities, and their own unique way of experiencing the world.
While we are deeply passionate about helping children heal and feel better physically, emotionally, and neurologically, we also believe healing must always be led with compassion, respect, and connection. We honour each child’s individuality throughout the journey and recognise that they are communicating with us constantly through their behaviour, emotions, nervous system responses, and needs.
Validating the child means listening to what their body and nervous system are telling us rather than forcing them into compliance or overlooking their emotional experience. It means recognising that many behaviours are rooted in overwhelm, discomfort, dysregulation, fear, inflammation, or unmet needs , not “bad behaviour.”
We believe children deserve to feel safe, heard, respected, and understood throughout their healing journey. Their sensory experiences, emotions, boundaries, and personality matter deeply. Thrive Hub encourages families to move away from shame and frustration, and instead towards curiosity, compassion, co-regulation, and true connection.
Because ultimately, healing is not just about reducing symptoms. it is about helping a child feel safer in their body, more connected to the world around them, and supported for who they truly are 💗
E – Empower Families
At the heart of Thrive Hub is the belief that parents know their children more deeply than anyone else ever can. No practitioner, therapist, teacher, or protocol can replace a parent’s intuition, connection, and understanding of their child.
Our goal is not to create dependency on practitioners or overwhelm families with endless information. Instead, we want to help parents build the knowledge, confidence, and understanding needed to trust themselves more deeply throughout their child’s healing journey.
We believe one of the most powerful things we can do is help parents reconnect with their own intuition — because parents are often the first to notice the subtle shifts, patterns, regressions, sensitivities, improvements, and signs that something either feels supportive for their child… or does not.
Through education, guidance, community, and support, Thrive Hub aims to help families feel empowered to make informed decisions with greater confidence and clarity. We want parents to feel able to recognise when a child’s nervous system is becoming more regulated, when something is increasing overwhelm, or when a particular approach truly resonates with their child’s individual needs.
Every child is unique, and healing is never one-size-fits-all. What works beautifully for one child may not work for another. That is why we believe empowering parents to understand and trust their child’s individual responses is one of the most important parts of the healing process.
Our hope is that families leave Thrive Hub feeling calmer, more capable, more connected to their child, and confident in navigating the journey ahead with both knowledge and intuition working hand in hand 💗
