About Thrive Hub
Supporting parents of neurodiverse children with expert guidance, practical strategies, and a clear path forward.
Thrive -Hub is your all-in-one support community, bringing together the key pieces of the puzzle that impact your child's development, behaviour, learning, emotional regulation, sleep, focus, speech, and wellbeing.Instead of searching for answers alone, you'll have access to expert-led resources, training, live support, and a community of parents who truly understand the journey. Helping you move from uncertainty to clarity, with practical guidance that makes everyday challenges feel more manageable.
Thrive-Hub was created to become the space we wished existed for parents; somewhere safe, hopeful, educational, and genuinely supportive. We both come from a place of deep understanding, knowing first-hand that healing is not a quick fix. It is a roadmap. One that takes time, patience, education, consistency, and most importantly… support and being truly heard.
We both work collaboratively to support families through a holistic, child-centred approach, gently uncovering each child’s unique biological and emotional needs.
"Our approach is not about ‘fixing’ autism or neurodiversity, but about supporting each child to thrive by removing hidden stressors, nourishing the body, and creating the conditions for true healing on every level... physically, emotionally, and neurologically."
About Vicky & Lara
Vicky Finlayson
Qualified Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
The Happy Healthy Unicorn
Vicky Finlayson holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and is a registered, qualified Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist. She has also completed specialist training with the Walsh Institute, furthering her passion for evidence-informed, non-pharmacological approaches to mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges.
As a qualified FNTP member, Vicky is deeply committed to personalised nutrition and helping individuals restore balance to both body and brain through a natural, holistic approach.
Her work focuses on understanding the complex relationship between nutrition, metabolic health, the gut microbiome, immune function, and brain health. By addressing the root causes of imbalance, she supports individuals in achieving better physical, emotional, and cognitive wellbeing.
Vicky specialises in neurodevelopmental nutrition, supporting children and adults with autism, ADHD, and a range of complex physical and mental health challenges. Her dedication to this field is deeply personal, shaped by her own neurodivergent journey, chronic health conditions within her family, and her experience as a mother to two children, one of whom was diagnosed with non-verbal autism at the age of four.
Today, her child is thriving, achieving milestones once thought impossible. This experience has given Vicky a profound understanding of the challenges families face, alongside genuine empathy, hope, and a commitment to helping others navigate their own journey towards better health and wellbeing.
Associated Certifications & Memberships
Lara Barnes
Melillo Specialist
Brain Development UK
Lara Barnes has been specialising in Functional Neurology since 2018, a journey that began when she sought answers to support her son after noticing developmental delays and missed milestones that were affecting his overall development and academic progress.
Today, he is a transformed child, and this experience inspired Lara to dedicate her career to helping other families achieve similar outcomes.
In 2018, Lara completed Dr. Robert Melillo's Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorders Certification programme in Barcelona. Initially undertaken to support her own son, this training laid the foundation for helping many other parents and children over the years, with life-changing results.
Lara later achieved a Distinction in the Certification in Melillio Method ™, a unique and powerful methodology accredited through the nterdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation (IANFR).
She is also a member of the British Medical Laser Association, enabling her to incorporate photobiomodulation and red light therapy into her work where appropriate.
Passionate about making innovative, evidence-informed approaches more accessible, Lara is committed to bringing these methodologies to families across the UK. Her mission is to empower parents with the knowledge, tools, and support they need to help their children thrive and become the very best version of themselves.
Associated Certifications & Memberships
Conditions We Support
At Thrive-Hub, we help parents understand why these challenges may be happening by looking at the foundations of brain development, sensory processing, primitive reflexes, nutrition, gut health, immune function and nervous system regulation.
Regulate • Integrate • Develop • Thrive
Building the Brain From the Foundation Up
🧠 Autism Spectrum Conditions & Developmental Delays
🗣️ Speech, Language & Communication Difficulties
⚡ Attention, Focus & Learning Challenges
🌪️ Emotional Regulation & Behavioural Challenges
🎧 Sensory Processing & Body Awareness Difficulties
🤸 Movement, Balance & Coordination Difficulties
🍽️ Feeding, Gut & Digestive Health Challenges
😴 Sleep, Nervous System & Regulation Issues
🛡️ Immune, Inflammatory & Chronic Health Concerns
🥦 Nutrition, Detoxification & Metabolic Support
💚 Mood, Wellbeing & Mental Health Support
🧠 Neurological & Brain-Based Challenges
What does THRIVE stand for?
T – Target Root Causes
We believe in looking beyond surface-level symptoms and asking “why is this happening?” rather than simply masking behaviours or struggles. We focus on identifying the underlying drivers that may be impacting a child’s health and nervous system, such as gut dysfunction, inflammation, immune dysregulation, nutritional deficiencies, infections, mitochondrial dysfunction, environmental triggers, nervous system stress, and biochemical imbalances. Our hope is that families leave Thrive Hub feeling calmer, more capable, more connected to their child, and confident in navigating the journey ahead with both knowledge and intuition working hand in hand 💗
H – Heal Foundationally
Healing foundationally means starting with the core building blocks of health first. Rather than chasing endless supplements or complicated interventions, we focus on supporting the body in the most fundamental ways possible, through nutrition, digestion, sleep, blood sugar balance, minerals, hydration, emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and reducing inflammatory load. Strong foundations create stability for everything else to build upon.
R – Restore Balance
Children’s bodies can become stuck in patterns of imbalance, within the nervous system, immune system, gut microbiome, hormones, inflammation pathways, or brain chemistry. Restoring balance means gently helping the body move back towards regulation, resilience, and safety so that symptoms can naturally begin to reduce as the body becomes less overwhelmed and more supported.
I – Integrate Support
Healing is never meant to happen in isolation. Families need emotional support, practical guidance, education, community, and compassionate professionals around them. Integrating support means bringing all aspects of the healing journey together, nutrition, nervous system work, functional health, emotional wellbeing, therapies, parenting support, lifestyle changes, and community connection, into one safe and supportive space. Thrive Hub exists to ensure families feel guided, understood, and never alone throughout the process.
V – Validate the Child
At the heart of Thrive Hub is the belief that our children are not projects to “fix”, they are human beings with thoughts, emotions, sensitivities, preferences, fears, personalities, and their own unique way of experiencing the world.
While we are deeply passionate about helping children heal and feel better physically, emotionally, and neurologically, we also believe healing must always be led with compassion, respect, and connection. We honour each child’s individuality throughout the journey and recognise that they are communicating with us constantly through their behaviour, emotions, nervous system responses, and needs.
Validating the child means listening to what their body and nervous system are telling us rather than forcing them into compliance or overlooking their emotional experience. It means recognising that many behaviours are rooted in overwhelm, discomfort, dysregulation, fear, inflammation, or unmet needs , not “bad behaviour.”
We believe children deserve to feel safe, heard, respected, and understood throughout their healing journey. Their sensory experiences, emotions, boundaries, and personality matter deeply. Thrive Hub encourages families to move away from shame and frustration, and instead towards curiosity, compassion, co-regulation, and true connection.
Because ultimately, healing is not just about reducing symptoms. it is about helping a child feel safer in their body, more connected to the world around them, and supported for who they truly are 💗
E – Empower Families
At the heart of Thrive Hub is the belief that parents know their children more deeply than anyone else ever can. No practitioner, therapist, teacher, or protocol can replace a parent’s intuition, connection, and understanding of their child.
Our goal is not to create dependency on practitioners or overwhelm families with endless information. Instead, we want to help parents build the knowledge, confidence, and understanding needed to trust themselves more deeply throughout their child’s healing journey.
We believe one of the most powerful things we can do is help parents reconnect with their own intuition — because parents are often the first to notice the subtle shifts, patterns, regressions, sensitivities, improvements, and signs that something either feels supportive for their child… or does not.
Through education, guidance, community, and support, Thrive Hub aims to help families feel empowered to make informed decisions with greater confidence and clarity. We want parents to feel able to recognise when a child’s nervous system is becoming more regulated, when something is increasing overwhelm, or when a particular approach truly resonates with their child’s individual needs.
Every child is unique, and healing is never one-size-fits-all. What works beautifully for one child may not work for another. That is why we believe empowering parents to understand and trust their child’s individual responses is one of the most important parts of the healing process.
Our hope is that families leave Thrive Hub feeling calmer, more capable, more connected to their child, and confident in navigating the journey ahead with both knowledge and intuition working hand in hand 💗
Our Membership Plans
To celebrate the launch of Thrive-Hub we are offering our founding members
50% off our Thrive-Hub Membership plans *
* for lifetime of your membership
Choose the Membership plan that suits you to join the community
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Monthly Thrive-Hub Membership
100£Every monthJoin the Thrive-Hub community to help your family thrive.- Pay your membership monthly
- 50% Lifetime Discount for founding members
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- Expert Monthly Masterclasses
- Regular live Q&A Sessions
- Supportive Parent Community Forum
- Exclusive Access to Resources & Research
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- 50% Lifetime Discount for founding members
- Use "THRIVE-A50" code at checkout
- Expert Monthly Masterclasses
- Regular live Q&A Sessions
- Supportive Community Forum
- Exclusive Access to Resources & Research
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