Adrienne is a Speaker, Writer and Parent Consultant. She has a particular interest in young people with complex and challenging behaviour. Drawing on her learning with the Neufeld Institute, she supports parents and professionals to better understand young people through the lens of relationship and development. Adrienne is a former high school teacher and lecturer in human development and is mother to now grown-up kids of her own. Adrienne is on Faculty with the Neufeld Institute and former Team Leader of Neufeld Aotearoa.

Adrienne has spent many years as a High School Teacher in low decile, multi-cultural schools. She went on to do her Masters focussing on the power of the teacher-student relationship to support disaffected learners. She spent time as a lecturer in Human Development training teachers, counsellors and youth workers. She now runs her own business, Heartsync NZ, working privately with parents of children and teens with complex behaviours. She also runs events and presentations for educators, professionals, youth workers and parents to help them understand relational dynamics in children and youth. She combines extensive learning through the Neufeld Institute and a diverse High School teaching background with postgraduate research to make sense of complex child and adolescent behaviours.

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