Your teen's brain is just fine thank you
But the education system was not made for it.
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Katie Bertie Education:
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Specialist Support to Guide You Through your Teen's Education Years
Hey There
​You'd move mountains for your kid - but sometimes it just doesn't feel enough. You start doubting yourself:
Are you advocating hard enough at school? Are you pushing too much at home? Are you saying the right things, or making it worse?
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The fact that you're asking those questions means you're already a brilliant parent. You just need a map.
This if for you if...
This if for you if...
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Your teen is quietly (or not so quietly) withdrawing from you
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You want to help...but you don't know how
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And you suspect they won't do what you suggest anyway
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School feels like a battleground rather than a support network
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Your teen is anxiously working all the time (no time for dinner or family games night) OR they're doing more than a passable ostrich impression and you don't know how to support them
Your teen's brain is just fine thank you
Your teen's brain is not broken. And neither is your parenting.
The problem is that the school system was built for a different kind of learner and nobody gave you the map for navigating it with a neurodivergent teen. So you're doing what any brilliant parent would do: improvising, researching, worrying, and trying to hold it all together.
But there's another way. When you understand how your teen's brain actually works and how to work with the system rather than against it, it all feels lighter.
The arguments get fewer (or less intense!). The school conversations get easier. And you start to feel like you're on the same team as your teen again.
That's what I'm here for.
Welcome!
I'm Katie
An Oxford-educated English specialist, an Orton-Gillingham trained dyslexia and ADHD specialist, and a secondary school teacher with years of classroom experience, in particular with teens with ADHD and dyslexia.
But the credential that matters most to the parents I work with? I'm also a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent young adults. I have sat exactly where you're sitting. I know what it feels like to love your child fiercely and still feel completely lost about how to help them.
I'm not here to tell you what you should be doing. I'm here to help you figure out what works for your family.
What does working with me as a PARENT look like?
Just as all neurodivergent teens have unique strengths and difficulties, all neurodivergent families have unique situations, frustrations and areas of need.
But we all share one thing: we want the best for our children and we know that their path looks different from the ‘typical’ kid.
Together we will work through common flashpoints:
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Communicating with your teen without them erupting or disappearing
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Handling with neurodivergent shame and fear
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Walking the impossible tightrope between supporting, pushing and letting them fall
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Navigating school conversations and relationships with teachers
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Understanding the SEND system and handling exams as a neurodivergent young person
Writing Revolutionaries
If you're looking for support for yourself AND academic help for your teen, you're in the right place for both.
Writing Revolutionaries is my specialist small group programme for neurodivergent and underperforming teens in Years 9–11 designed to rebuild confidence and boost English grades, in a way that actually works for brains like theirs.
Some families work with me on both. Others start with one and come back for the other. Either way, you don't have to choose.
21 Days to Help Take Your ADHD or Dyslexic Teen from Struggling to Flourishing
Start here - it's free
Not sure where to begin?
This free guide gives you three practical, parent-tested weeks of action.
Week by week, you'll learn how to:
Week 1 Understand what "surviving" really looks like for your teen (and why it's not attitude or laziness)
Week 2 Help your teen see they are not the problem and start to shift the story they tell about themselves
Week 3 Get their teacher on your team, with confidence even if those conversations have felt daunting before
Each week comes with a quick action tip you can use straight away.
C, parent of year 7
"I feel like I manifested you or something."
C, parent of year 11
"I'm so glad I found you. You've made this journey so much easier."
M, parent of year 12
"Your advice has kept our daughter and us grounded. Thank you - keep up this great work that you do."
