Support Through Every Stage
Support, education and guidance for every stage of your cleft journey.
Whether you're a parent, someone born with cleft, an educator, healthcare professional or community advocate, you'll find compassionate, trauma-informed support designed to help you feel informed, connected and empowered.
“Every journey deserves compassionate support.”
~ Katie Manning
Parents & Families
Supporting your family from diagnosis through every stage.
Receiving a cleft diagnosis can bring many questions and emotions. Whether you're preparing for your baby's arrival, navigating treatment, or supporting your child as they grow, you don't have to work through it alone.
Katie offers compassionate, trauma-informed guidance that helps parents better understand both their own experiences and those of their child. Together you'll explore practical ways to build confidence, strengthen connection and create a sense of safety for the whole family.
Support may include understanding the nervous system, responding to emotional challenges, preparing for key milestones and discovering practical tools that help your family flourish.
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Those With Cleft
Building confidence, connection and a stronger sense of self.
Living with cleft can bring unique experiences at every stage of life. From childhood through to adulthood, many people carry questions about identity, confidence, relationships and belonging that are rarely acknowledged.
Katie offers a safe, compassionate space to explore your experiences, reconnect with your strengths and better understand how your past may continue to influence your present. Through conversation, education and creative approaches where appropriate, support is tailored to your individual journey.
The goal isn't to change who you are. It's to help you feel more confident in who you've always been.
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The Cleft Community
Growing connection, understanding and belonging.
Meaningful change happens when communities come together.
Katie works alongside charities, support organisations, advocacy groups and community initiatives that strengthen connection and create opportunities for people affected by cleft to feel seen, valued and included.
Whether through collaborative projects, exhibitions, workshops or community events, her work helps build understanding while celebrating the dignity, resilience and lived experiences of people born with cleft.
Educators & Schools
Creating learning environments where every child can thrive.
Children born with cleft deserve classrooms where they feel safe, understood and able to participate with confidence.
Katie helps educators better understand the emotional and social experiences that can accompany visible difference, while providing practical, trauma-informed approaches that encourage inclusion, connection and resilience.
By supporting both children and the adults around them, schools become places where confidence and belonging can grow.
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Healthcare & Cleft Professionals
Bringing lived experience into compassionate care.
Families often remember how they were made to feel long after they remember clinical information.
Katie works alongside healthcare professionals to bridge the medical and human experience of cleft. Drawing on lived experience, trauma-informed education and nervous system awareness, she helps teams better understand the emotional realities that families may be navigating alongside treatment.
Together, this creates opportunities for more compassionate communication, stronger relationships and care that supports the whole person, not only the diagnosis.
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Begin Where You Are
Not sure where to begin?
You don't need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
Whether you're looking for guidance after a diagnosis, support for yourself or your family, or simply someone who understands, we can begin with a conversation and explore what feels right for you.
Your first conversation is free, with no obligation, simply an opportunity to explore what support feels right for you.
Working Together
Finding the right support.
Everyone's experience of cleft is unique, which is why Katie offers a range of ways to connect, learn and receive support. Whether you're looking for a one-off workshop, ongoing guidance or opportunities to learn alongside others, each experience is designed to meet you where you are.
