Finding real solutions for families | By thinking outside the box
The Quirky Parenting Project.
Work with Justine
The main way families work with me is through The Quirky Parenting Project (TQPP), a six-week, facilitated online programme for parents in neurodivergent families who want everyday family life to feel calmer, more organised, and easier to live in. TQPP takes a family systems and environmental approach, focusing on how everyday life is organised rather than attempting to change individuals.
This is a contained, structured programme that helps parents reduce instructional load, notice recurring patterns, and develop more workable ways of living together — with practical, family-specific strategies you can use at home.
What’s included
• Six weekly online group sessions (approx. 2 hours each) that build sequentially, supporting gradual, sustainable change rather than quick fixes.
• Two individual sessions with Justine are embedded within the programme:
Session 1: Before the programme begins — to understand what matters most in your family and clarify goals.
Session 2: Two weeks after the programme ends, a supportive check-in session to notice what is working and reinforce changes as you continue to apply them in everyday life.
• Flexible online delivery via Zoom — cameras optional, participation at your pace.
This work is not therapy. It is structured family work informed by family systems thinking and a neurodivergent lens, designed to support families with real-world, functional solutions.
How the programme unfolds (6 weeks)
Week 1: Making sense of what’s happening
Week 2: Reducing demands
Week 3: Changing language
Week 4: Routines that hold
Week 5: Rebalancing the system
Week 6: Carrying changes forward
Why this matters
This programme is for parents who feel stuck in cycles of conflict, negotiation, or shutdowns, are exhausted by constant reminding and prompting, want calmer mornings, afternoons, and evenings and are parenting tweens or teens where things feel fragile or tense, and value neurodiversity-affirming, non-blaming support. want practical strategies, not more theory.
About the facilitator
Justine Demaine is a senior family therapist with more than 25 years’ experience working with neurodivergent families, parents, and teens across Australia and internationally. Her work integrates family systems therapy, neurodiversity-affirming practice, and environmental change strategies that support real-life functioning — not just insight.
Next intake: 17 February 2026
FAMILY SYSTEMS &
PATTERNS
Neurodiversity
Autism
ADHD
PDA
Communication
PARENTING
Repeated patterns
CHANGE
NEUROAFFIRMING STRATEGIES
TEENS TO very little ones to grandparents & aunts.
What is The Quirky Experience?
The Quirky Experience is built for neurodivergent families because Justine understands how difference shapes everyday life.
She helps families see the hidden patterns behind stress, conflict, and exhaustion — how nervous systems, communication, and routines collide — and supports small environmental shifts that make life feel easier to live in.
This is warm, relational, neurodiversity-affirming work that helps families function with more clarity, less pressure, and greater connection.
