Explore Sound Therapy, Primitive Reflex Integration, Coaching for Kids & Teenagers and Emotion Code — practical approaches to learning, development, emotional wellbeing and meaningful change.
Coaching for Kids & Teenagers
Individual NLP coaching to support confidence, emotional wellbeing, resilience and personal growth in children and teenagers.
Primitive Reflex Integration
Assessment and targeted reflex-integration support for retained primitive reflex patterns that may be affecting development, coordination, regulation and learning.
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Sound Therapy
The JIAS Waves Generic Programme: a structured home-listening programme designed to support listening, auditory processing and learning.
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Emotion Code
Explore Emotion Code sessions in Perth or online, a gentle approach to identifying and releasing trapped emotions and supporting emotional wellbeing.
Retrain the Brain offers practical support for children, teenagers and families in Perth, with a focus on learning, development, emotional wellbeing and meaningful change.
The work brings together primitive reflex integration, structured sound therapy, Emotion Code sessions and coaching — different approaches to supporting learning, development, emotional wellbeing and meaningful change.
The aim is simple: to understand what may be contributing to a difficulty and provide practical support that helps children and families move forward.
When learning, movement or everyday life feels harder than it should
Sometimes the things we notice in our children don’t seem connected.
A child might struggle to sit comfortably at a desk, find handwriting exhausting, have difficulty following instructions or become easily overwhelmed. They may be bright, curious and capable, yet find certain everyday tasks much harder than we would expect.
Perhaps coordination is challenging. Reading or writing takes enormous effort. Listening in a busy classroom is difficult. Or emotional reactions seem bigger, stronger or harder to move through than the situation appears to warrant.
Often, parents have been noticing these little things for years. Sometimes the challenges only become apparent as children grow and the demands of school, friendships and everyday life increase.
What interests me is not simply the behaviour we can see, but what may be contributing to it.
Because when we begin to understand the patterns behind a difficulty, we have more possibilities for supporting change.
Understanding the bigger picture
Development doesn’t happen in separate compartments.
Movement, balance, coordination, sensory experiences, listening, learning and emotional wellbeing are all part of a child’s developing experience of the world.
For example, a child who is working unusually hard to maintain posture and coordinate their movements may have less energy available for other tasks. Difficulties with listening and auditory processing can make spoken information harder to follow. Emotional responses can influence how a child experiences and responds to everyday challenges.
These experiences don’t always share a single cause, but looking at the wider picture can help us understand what is happening.
At Retrain the Brain, I draw on different approaches depending on what a child or family is experiencing.
Primitive Reflex Assessment & Integration explores early movement patterns that may still be influencing coordination, development and everyday functioning.
The JIAS Waves Generic Sound Therapy Programme offers a structured, home-based listening approach for families interested in supporting listening and auditory processing.
Coaching for Kids & Teenagers uses NLP and individual coaching to help children and teenagers explore their emotions, build confidence, develop resilience and create meaningful change. Coaching can be a starting point in its own right or a natural continuation of developmental support.
Emotion Code provides a different pathway, using a structured energy-based method to explore emotional patterns and experiences. It is available for children, teenagers and adults.
Each approach has its own purpose. The intention is to understand what is relevant to you or your child, rather than assume that everyone needs the same programme.
A personalised approach to learning and development
One of the most valuable sources of information about a child is the person who sees them every day.
You know how your child moves, plays, learns, responds, copes and interacts with the world. You notice the little things that don’t always appear during a formal assessment.
I believe those observations matter.
My approach brings together your understanding of your child, their developmental history and what I observe through assessment and practical work.
For primitive reflex integration, this begins with the Retained Reflex Profile, which looks at patterns across movement, coordination, sensory responses, learning and emotional regulation. It helps identify which areas are most relevant to assess in person.
Other services have different starting points, including a structured home-listening programme, individual coaching for children and teenagers, or an Emotion Code session.
The common thread is an interest in understanding the individual, rather than working from a predetermined set of assumptions.
Experience that began with babies, movement and development
I’m Skye Brookes, the founder of Retrain the Brain.
My background began in early childhood education, followed by six years owning and running a GymbaROO centre, where I worked face-to-face with thousands of babies, young children and their parents.
Those years gave me an extraordinary opportunity to observe development as it naturally unfolds.
I watched babies learn to move, roll, crawl, stand and walk. I saw how movement patterns developed, how children responded to their environment and how individual their developmental journeys could be.
That experience led me into further study and training in primitive reflex integration, the INPP Method, Brain Therapy and other approaches to support development.
My work later expanded into NLP, coaching and emotional wellbeing, giving me a broader understanding of the ways people learn, respond and create change.
Today, I bring these areas of experience together, drawing on the approaches relevant to the person in front of me.
Because there is so much more to a child than the difficulty that first brings their family through the door.
Explore, understand and discover more
Understanding development can change the way we see the everyday things our children do.
Whether you’re exploring concerns about movement, coordination, learning, listening or emotional wellbeing, there are resources here to help you learn more.
Explore the Retained Reflex Profile
A practical way to bring together your observations about your child’s development, movement, learning and sensory responses, and identify patterns worth exploring further.
Explore the Retained Reflex Profile
Understand primitive reflexes
Learn about early movement responses, how they develop and why retained reflex patterns may be relevant when exploring coordination and learning challenges.
Understanding Primitive Reflexes
Practical resources for parents
More articles and developmental resources will be featured here as the existing library is reviewed and refreshed.
The aim is to give you information, understanding and practical possibilities, wherever you are in your family’s journey.