Rainbow House Auckland

26/08/2025

School holiday programmes out now! Please let us know if any of the following works for you

10/08/2025

https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-on/relaxed-sessions-diva

Auckland Museum are running low sensory sessions for their current travelling exhibition, Diva, with neurodivergent people in mind:

August:
Tuesday 12th, 6PM – 7PM

September:
Sunday 21st, 3.30PM - 5PM
Tuesday 23rd, 6PM - 7PM

October:
Tuesday 14th, 6PM – 7PM
Sunday 19th, 8.45AM – 10AM

Experience DIVA in a calmer environment with fewer visitors and supportive staff on hand.

09/07/2025

09/07/2025

Hey everyone 😊 Bunnings Manukau have given us another opportunity to run a sausage sizzle fundraiser this Wednesday! these fundraisers go towards the costs of our events that we run during the year so if you are free on Wednesday please pop down & support our dads that will be on the grill cooking up a feed for the cause. We will have mobile payment available on the day 🤩🌭🥤

10/06/2025

The wonderful Hannah Saulbrey-Ross is holding another excellent mindful parenting workshop for Term 3

21/05/2025

https://bleuetgirl.com/pages/sensory-aware-apparel

Bras and cami's for sensory sensitive bodies :)

Shop Bleuet. Ultra-soft, itch-free bras for the girl with sensory issues. Designed with minimal seams with ultra-soft, lightweight, breathable and colorful heather fabrics. Dual layers bra for extra coverage and support. Give her Comfort and Confidence. Free returns and exchanges. Designed by a Mom....

11/05/2025

ACT Wellington is really excited to be bringing Tiffany Rochester (Perth) to NZ to run workshops in Auckland and Wellington about how to work with separated families so they can more effectively co-parent together.

This workshop is so needed in NZ as it's an area most of us struggle with and there are very few training opportunities on this topic.

A 1-Day Intensive for Mental Health Professionals with Clinical Psychologist Tiffany Rochester (Auckland)

13/04/2025

Hi everyone, we've been contacted by the University of Otago Dental Faculty asking for resources or information about what autistic children (and their families) struggle with the most when visiting the dentist. They are wanting to put together some informed and helpful resources for their dentists in training.

If there are any families out there who would like to share any insights about their experiences or ideas for making a visit to the dentist easier/more successful, then please contact us on private message or email us at rainbowhouseltd@gmail.com

Thank you :)

28/03/2025

Now What? Not Fine in School with Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker
There's so much advice given when your child isn't fine at school, but very little time to stop and consider the impact on you, the parent.
Your child is struggling with school, and you aren't sure what to think or do. You attend meetings where you're asked about your boundaries and whether your anxiety might be affecting them. You wonder why this is happening, and if it's because you've done something wrong as a parent.

Some people say it's because you've made home too pleasant, and others say it must be because you've 'given them the option'. Or maybe they seem fine whilst they are at school, but after school things are extremely difficult, and you're told you just need to put more structure in place or use harsher consequences.

Life becomes a relentless cycle of worrying about the next day. Sometimes things go well and other times it's a disaster. You don't know what to think or how to help.

In this new webinar, Naomi and Eliza will talk about what it's like to be a parent when your child is struggling with school. They'll talk about how it feels to attend those meetings, and how school can start to dominate every element of family life. They'll discuss parent blame and the self-criticism which can result. They'll talk about the relentless cycle of trying new things which don't help, and how this can lead to despair and burnout.

These webinars combine professional expertise with lived experience. Eliza has a child who was not fine in school, and Naomi was a 'school refuser' herself aged five and thirteen.

This talk will focus on the parent's experience when your child is not fine at school. It will be compassionate, affirming and you will know that you are not alone.

This webinar will be recorded. Please choose that option at check out if you wish to watch a recording.

Tue, 1 Apr 2025 00:00 - 01:30 NZDT

There's so much advice given when your child isn't fine at school, but very little time to stop and consider the impact on you, the parent.

19/02/2025

The wonderful Hannah Saulbrey-Ross is running another Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction parent course in term 2. Please see details below. Amazing feedback from all those parents who have attended previous ones!

18/02/2025

Information hour for those interested. This is run by, and supported by Neurodiverse individuals themselves. Feel free to share 🙏

01/02/2025

ACT Wellington is putting on another workshop for Exposure / Response Prevention for OCD. We attended the previous workshop Dr Ben Sedley led in Auckland last year so can highly recommend for upskilling your OCD therapy skills!

ACT & Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD
Mon, 19 May - Tue, 20 May 2025
Integrating ACT and ERP in the treatment of OCD: a 2-day workshop for mental health clinicians with Ben Sedley
Naumi Hotel, 213 Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the most effective treatment for OCD. Integrating ACT enhances ERP therapy by increasing precision and connecting behaviour to client values. This two-day workshop will cover:

how to use Exposure and Response Prevention in therapy
the inhibitory learning approach to exposure therapy
how ACT can increase engagement and the effectiveness of ERP
how to avoid common pitfalls
This workshop is designed for mental health clinicians of any discipline. Prior knowledge of ACT and ERP is an advantage but not required for this workshop.

Ben Sedley is New Zealand's only peer-reviewed ACT Trainer. He is a clinical psychologist and co-founder of ACT Wellington. He has been using ACT in his practice for over 15 years, and has been trained and supervised by many of the world’s leading ACT therapists and researchers. Ben has worked at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, in private practice with adults and adolescents, and trained new clinical psychology students at Victoria University of Wellington. Ben wrote Stuff that Sucks: Accepting what you can’t change and committing to what you can which introduces ACT to teenagers and Stuff That’s Loud: A Teen’s Guide to Unspiralling When OCD Gets Noisy (co-authored with Lisa Coyne).

Integrating ACT and ERP in the treatment of OCD: a 2-day workshop for mental health clinicians.