About Sarah


Sarah Hayden
Social Worker, AASW
BSocWk
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Sarah is an accredited social worker, registered with the AASW as well as a qualified equine assisted psychotherapist. She specialises in autism, neurodivergence and complex family dynamics.
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She is also mum to five amazing kids including world renowned actor, author, and autism advocate Chloe Hayden.
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Sarah and her husband fostered 55 children over a period of five years and their youngest two children were adopted through intercountry adoption from Taiwan.
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Sarah is also a volunteer, having worked as a counsellor and advocate for refugees and asylum seekers, and provides emotional first aid and support to disaster-affected people.
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Sarah is neurodivergent herself having been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 48, and is the best selling author of parenting book: "Parenting Different: How to Raise Your Neurodivergent Kids to be Their Authentic Awesome Selves."