06/02/2026
See the AURA. by Secure Start App.
I am very pleased and relieved to let you know that my new app is being uploaded to the App Store.
The AURA by Secure Start App brings to life the AURA framework I have been using for the last few years to articulate a straightforward and practical approach to daily therapeutic (re-)parenting for children and young people recovering from adversity, loss, or other traumas. It represents a distillation of thirty years experience working in child protection, out of home care, and related endeavours.
The app is anticipated to be most useful for foster carers, kinship carers, residential child care workers, and parents who wish to implement and monitor the potential impact of performing four straightforward therapeutic/reparative parenting behaviours.
Each day the user receives three reminders to record their performance of the four parenting behaviours, at 8am, 4pm, and 9pm, and to complete a simple rating of how the day went. This can be done for one or more children. All information is stored on the users device, and can be deleted at any time by the user. The user can track performance and progress across time, and can share the information they have entered via an export function. This means that the app is useful to monitor implementation and impact of four simple therapeutic parenting behaviours when the child or family is involved with support or therapeutic services. With the appropriate approvals, the app could also be used for research purposes.
The app is free to download and will remain free for individuals and organisations who work with me.
The app will be released on the Google Play Store shortly. There are variations of the app for other populations coming soon.
If you download the app, please let me know what was your experience of it.
