Rainbow Light Therapies by Kim Marie Norton

29/07/2025

25/07/2025

A free and confidential mental health coaching program for Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast. Enquire today about NewAccess by Beyond Blue.

25/07/2025

What does this Registration mean?

It means I’ve spent time gaining an accredited post-graduate (AQF 8 8) career development qualification which allows me to help my clients navigate their world of work using career theory and career counselling techniques on top of my undergraduate counselling qualifications.

Being accredited with CICA provides you with peace of mind knowing that I have a national standard and set of ethics to adhere to which includes continual professional development.

"The Australian Register of Professional Career Development Practitioners (the Register) is the single national point of reference for ensuring and promoting professional career development practitioners across the whole industry in Australia and is a further step in the professionalisation of the industry.

CICA, as the National Peak Body, is responsible for developing and promulgating the Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners and leads the industry to ensure a commonly understood appropriate standard of education, training and continuing professional development for career development practitioners is maintained".

For more information please contact me at 0401 561923 or email admin@kimmarienorton.com.au

Kim

23/07/2025

Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) – previously called “sluggish cognitive tempo”— describes a unique cluster of attentional symptoms that, while associated with ADHD, is distinct and separate. Up to 40% of children with ADHD exhibit symptoms of CDS, including excessive daydreaming and s...

22/07/2025

This guide provides practical strategies to help you, as a parent or carer, start open conversations with your child about screen time, online safety, and positive digital behaviours.

22/07/2025

Every parent needs to know. https://mamamia.au/44VimZB

22/07/2025

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16/07/2025

15/07/2025

https://www.rainbowlighttherapies.com.au Kim Norton - a Holistic Counsellor- based in Langwarrin, Melbourne, near Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula, ...

12/07/2025

People say “In the REAL world, they won’t be able to…” and then end that sentence with something that you actually, totally, can in fact do in the “real world”, a surprising amount of times in my line of work.

Actual things that people have actually, literally said to me:

In the REAL world, he won’t be using a pencil gripper. (What? Literally why not? I could use any pencil gripper I wanted to to write anything I felt like.)

In the REAL world, she can’t rock in her chair, so… (Yet I, a grown adult, sit perched like a bird and rocking wildly back and forth in my office chair while writing evaluations when I need a lot of sensory input.)

In the REAL world, the kids won’t have clipboards available to write on. (Isn’t a clipboard like, two dollars? Why couldn’t someone write with a clipboard?)

In the REAL world, she can’t cry every time something happens that she doesn’t like. (Anyone can cry whenever they want to cry. I’ve cried at all kinds of works in my life. When someone is crying, other human beings who are decent usually try to help them.)

On the flip side, you know what else doesn’t happen in the real world? People typically don’t have to sit silently at desks for 6+ hours a day. People typically are able to talk to their friend or coworker or text somebody in between tasks or when they feel like it. People typically can eat a snack if they’d like to or make arrangements to. People typically aren’t stuck in a room with 30 other people who are exactly their age, and nobody else. People typically don’t have to navigate buildings and structures and objects that are too large and proportionally clearly not made for them. People typically can take a break when they need to. People typically aren’t punished, and especially not physically, by their loved ones and close friends.

Every day, we’re *making* the real world.

I want to put all of our effort into making the real world a good place to be before I focus any of my efforts on chipping pieces off of its future inhabitants to try to make them fit some harmful imaginary mold from the past.

[Image description:
A drawn meme by NeuroWild
Around the borders are different colored pencils: purple, pink, green, red, yellow.
At the top is a cloud shape, blue, with words in it that read, ‘We have to PREPARE these kids for the REAL WORLD’
actually means:
“I am not prepared to accommodate this child now or in the future.”
“I accept that the world is going to treat them poorly and they should start getting used to that.”
“I will work hard on this child but I am not prepared to work on myself or the ableist world that we live in.”
The bottom 3 sentences are written in purple bubbles.
End description.]