Rainbow Light Therapies by Kim Marie Norton

Rainbow Light Therapies by Kim Marie Norton I work with children and adults alike to manage stress and anxiety in a holistic way. Contact me for rates and available times. Kim X

“Online Only Sessions”
* Kids & Teens Managing Anxiety
* Family & Individual Counselling
* Career Development and Counselling
* NDIS Mentoring and Skill Development
* Meditation and Spiritual Counselling
* Australian Bush Flower Essence Consults I use Holistic Counselling and other Complementary Therapies to bring the traditional and alternative together, providing a unique, intuitive and individualised therapy approach from my studio here at home. Working from a lived experience with two Autistic teens I also hold certifications and licenses in:

• Holistic Counselling
• Spiritual Counselling
• First Aid
• Working with Children Check
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Education Support
• Australian Bush Flower Essences - Happy Healthy Kids – Advanced Practioner
• Australian Bush Flower Essences - Level 3 Advanced Practioner
• Auslan 1
• Getting Started in Kids Yoga (Cosmic Kids Yoga)
• Level 2 ABA Therapist Training (ABIA) - NOT USED IN THERAPY HERE
• Reiki Usui Master
• Reiki Seichim Master
• Colour Therapy
• Crystal Therapy
• Metaphysical Studies
• Past Life Regression Therapy

I welcome working with adults and children alike and have a specific passion for helping our Autistic community.

With the end of year and Christmas looming, everyone is tired (and somewhat stressed). Even though the end is near and y...
28/10/2025

With the end of year and Christmas looming, everyone is tired (and somewhat stressed). Even though the end is near and you can tell yourself to finally relax after all of "it" is done, the "end" can still feel so far out of reach for many.

If you would like to book an online session please do so soon to avoid missing out. Timeslots for online sessions are available but are also limited. These sessions can be "one offs", there is no requirement to book fortnightly sessions.

Online sessions can include:

Private Clients
- Kids & Teens Managing Anxiety Sessions
- Family & Individual Counselling Sessions
- Spiritual Counselling Sessions
- Meditation Sessions
- Australian Bush Flower Essences Consults
www.rainbowlighttherapies.com.au

NDIS and Private Clients
Career Development and Counselling Sessions
Including:
- Vocational Assessments and Interpretation/recommendations
- Establishing values, interests, characteristics and abilities
- Setting smart goals
- Travel skills
- Time management skills
- Anxiety management
- Scheduling
- Study techniques
- Mentoring opportunities
- Course applications
- Volunteer opportunities
- Employment opportunities and preparation including resume writing, mock interviews etc
- Obtaining Working with children’s check, White Card, RSA and/or other similar licenses needed for any volunteer or paid work
- Short course/further study options

- Mentoring, Peer Support and Skill Development
- Non face-to-face Support Work

www.kimmarienorton.com.au

If you would like to book an appointment or have any queries at all please do not hesitate to contact me. Just call / text me on 0401 561923 or email at kim@rainbowlighttherapies.com.au.

Kim X

25/10/2025

She seems fine. Quiet. Polite. Easy to teach.
But what if that calm exterior is carefully constructed?

Many girls learn early on to blend in — to watch, copy, and adapt so they don’t stand out.
It can look like confidence or maturity… but underneath, it’s often exhaustion.

Masking is not pretending.
It’s surviving in an environment that doesn’t yet feel safe enough for authenticity.

Our Toolkit for Parents & Educators explores how masking shows up, why it’s so often missed, tools to identify triggers and strategies/activities to support.
Instant electronic download with secure global checkout. at link in comments ⬇️ or via our Linktree Shop in Bio.

Because when a child finally feels safe to drop the mask — that’s when real connection begins.

FOLLOW for more posts on Masking.

22/10/2025

WHEN I COME OUT OF SCHOOL…

I’ve held it together all day — smiling when I didn’t feel OK, copying others so I could fit in, keeping my stims small and hidden.

So when I come out of school…
Please don’t ask me to talk straight away.
Please don’t tell me how good I was.
Please just let me rest, be quiet, and feel safe again.

Want to understand more about masking and neurodivergent wellbeing?

Explore the full Masking Toolkit by The Contented Child for visuals, guides, and practical tools that help uncover what’s behind the mask — and support children to feel safe being their true selves. Link in comments ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in our Bio.

NOTE
Some children do mask so competently that it can be hard to get a diagnosis - that is why I created Meet My Brain: Power & the Tricky Bits. Link in comments.

22/10/2025

The brain of the ADHD child is developing at an average 30?hind schedule in the frontal lobe region according to leading ADHD researcher Dr Russell Barkley.

The frontal lobe controls regulation. It is the executive function part of the brain. It is the boss, the voice in your brain, the executive assistant, that tells you what to do with what you know and learn.

Because this part is behind schedule, children with ADHD brains are not always able to access the information they know to make use of it.

>>> https://www.graceunderpressure.blog/2017/10/16/what-is-my-childs-executive-function-age

18/10/2025

Autistic Advice from Neurotypicals

If you’re autistic, you’ve probably heard some of these before:

🗣 “Just make eye contact!”
🗣 “You’re overreacting.”
🗣 “Everyone feels like that sometimes.”
🗣 “You just need to get out of your comfort zone.”
🗣 “You’re not that autistic.”
🗣 “You don’t look autistic.”

Every autistic person has experienced the strange, confusing world of neurotypical advice.
Most of it comes from people who genuinely mean well — but it ends up invalidating autistic experiences instead of supporting them.

The thing is, neurotypicals often give advice that works for their brains, not ours.
So when they say things like “just focus harder” or “try being more social,” they don’t realize that autistic people aren’t choosing difficulty — our brains literally work differently.

Let’s break it down 👇

“Just make eye contact.”

To a neurotypical person, eye contact means attention and respect.
To an autistic person, it can feel like physical pain, sensory overload, or an intense distraction.
We can listen better when we’re not forcing ourselves to maintain eye contact — but neurotypicals read that as disinterest.

“You’re overreacting.”

What they call “overreacting” is often a sensory overload or emotional regulation issue.
Imagine hearing every sound in a room at full volume, lights flickering like strobe effects, and clothes feeling like sandpaper.
Now imagine being told you’re “too sensitive.”
It’s not overreacting — it’s surviving an environment that feels hostile to your nervous system.

“Everyone feels like that sometimes.”

Yes, but not everyone feels like that all the time.
The difference between occasional discomfort and a constant neurological reality is huge.
It’s the same as telling someone with asthma, “Everyone gets out of breath sometimes.”

“You just need to get out of your comfort zone.”

Autistic people spend most of their lives outside their comfort zones — masking, performing, trying to fit into a neurotypical world.
Our comfort zones aren’t laziness — they’re safe spaces where we can recover from constant sensory and social exhaustion.

“You’re not that autistic.”

This one hurts most.
It’s meant as a compliment, but it’s actually invalidating.
It implies that the only acceptable kind of autism is the one that’s invisible, quiet, and easy to tolerate.
You wouldn’t tell someone “you’re not that blind” or “you don’t look disabled.”
Autism doesn’t have a look — it has a spectrum of experiences.

“You don’t look autistic.”

Autism doesn’t have a face. It’s not something you can “see.”
What you’re really seeing is masking — a lifetime of learning how to appear “normal” just to survive in social spaces.
The irony is, the more effectively we mask, the less people believe us.

💡 Here’s the truth:

Autistic people don’t need neurotypical advice.
We need understanding.
We need accommodations.
We need people who listen instead of dismissing, who learn instead of lecturing.

Autism isn’t a behavior problem — it’s a neurotype.
We don’t need to be “fixed.”
We need space to exist without judgment, tools that actually work for us, and communities that accept us for who we are.

So next time you think of giving an autistic person advice, try this instead:
Ask how you can make things easier for them.
Ask what helps when they’re overwhelmed.
Ask what support looks like in their world.

Because the best advice for autistic people doesn’t come from “fixing” us —
It comes from listening to us.

16/10/2025

October marks Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) awareness month and the focus this year is on the many faces of the neurological condition.

16/10/2025

"I’ve come to realize that the grief of co-regulating my child is part of a larger, often unspoken narrative we’ve internalized about parenting — that it requires constant sacrifice, self-effacement, and emotional depletion." - Liz Koch, ADDitude guest blogger, parent, and truth teller

https://additu.de/who

14/10/2025

Feeling anxious? 🧊 Try this surprising trick.
Research shows that placing a cold pack under your armpit can help relieve anxiety within seconds.

Here’s how it works 👇
Your armpit lies close to the vagus nerve — one of the main regulators of the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls heart rate, breathing, and relaxation.

When the cold hits this area, it triggers what’s known as the diving reflex — a natural response that tells your body to slow down, conserve oxygen, and shift into a calmer state.

In simple terms:
❄️ Cold = Vagus nerve activation
🫀 Lower heart rate
💨 Slower breathing
😌 Calmer mind

It’s a fast, science-backed way to interrupt the “fight or flight” response and bring your body back into balance — no meds, no magic, just biology.

References

Frontiers in Neuroscience – Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Anxiety Regulation

Autonomic Neuroscience Journal – Diving Reflex and Parasympathetic Activation

Clinical Neurophysiology – Cold Stimulation and Stress.

12/10/2025

October is ADHD Awareness Month 💛

Sending love to everyone who was late diagnosed, misdiagnosed, or still trying to understand themselves.
You’re not lazy, broken, or too much, your brain just works differently, and that’s okay. 🧠💛

09/10/2025

"I have dyslexia, which means that I am gifted. I have a creative and productive mind. I have developed deep empathy. I have humor!" Thanks to Upbility for this graphic. www.DyslexiaConnect.com

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www.rainbowlighttherapies.com.au Stress and Anxiety Management for Kids, Teens, Adults and Families.

I am passionate about working with children and adults alike to heal, empower and inspire them to manage their stress and anxiety in a natural, holistic way. Using Counselling and other Alternative Therapies, I have brought the traditional and alternative together, providing a unique, intuitive and individualised therapy approach.

Having a son with Autism led me to the realisation that the only way I could help him reach his full potential was to teach him how to self-regulate his own stress and anxiety. To do this I also needed to learn how to manage my own and so from this, the idea for Rainbow Light Therapies was born. After years of training, attending endless workshops and working in the school system in both the mainstream and special educational settings, this business launched in 2014.

Rainbow Light Therapies offers services centering around stress and anxiety management including: