ResiliBrain helps parents guide their 3–8 year-old child through the everyday moments that build resilience, tailored to who your child actually is.
There is a moment every parent knows.
This is not a personal failing. These are patterns across families.
NZ children experience difficulties across emotional, peer, or behavioural domains
NZ Ministry of Health, 2018NZ children have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience by age 4.5
Growing Up in New Zealand, 5,500 childrenChildren are delayed in developing self-regulation by up to 18 months
Montroy et al., 2016, Developmental PsychologyBut these patterns can change.
When a child is overwhelmed, it is not naughty behaviour or stubbornness. It is development. The ability to regulate emotions and recover from setbacks grows gradually through repeated experience with a caring adult. Researchers call this co-regulation.
The ages three to eight are when this matters most. The emotional patterns and approaches to difficulty built during these years tend to shape how they handle challenge across their entire life.
"The single most common factor for children who develop resilience is at least one stable, committed relationship with a supportive adult."
— Harvard Center on the Developing Child
A parent who knows how to be there for them in the hard moments.
ResiliBrain starts by understanding your specific child — their traits, their developmental stage, how they tend to respond when things get hard. What every family receives is shaped by the specific child in front of them.
You are not just getting through hard moments. You are building something that lasts.
ResiliBrain is designed for children aged 3 to 8 and their parents. It starts by understanding your specific child — their traits, their developmental stage, how they tend to respond when things get hard.
Everyday moments, one skill at a time.
Scenario-based practice for before hard moments arrive. Short guided situations — losing a game, starting something hard, a disagreement with a friend — so your child has already rehearsed how to handle it when the real thing happens.
Real-time support for moments as they happen.
When your child is overwhelmed right now, ResiliBrain gives you a guided pathway shaped around what is actually going on for them. Not a generic script. A response built around this child, in this moment.
A goal-based track, shaped around your child's specific recurring challenge.
When the same challenge keeps recurring, ResiliBrain builds a step-by-step sequence around that specific area. Your child experiences it as progress. You experience it as direction.
I am a mum of two. My seven-year-old feels things deeply and does not always have the words for them. When things get hard, he tends to escape or go numb. The usual approaches do not reach him.
I am also a psychology researcher. And I still felt stuck.
So I started experimenting with different methods built around psychology and neuroscience, his temperament, and the things he loves. I tried simulating scenarios so he could rehearse, real-time coaching for the moments as they happened, and setting a specific goal around his recurring challenge. Together they became the best combination.
He loves it. He comes back to it. One evening I asked him: what if we turned these methods into something useful for every child who needs this? He nodded with excitement.
That is it. We turn the hard times into an opportunity. This rewires our brain circuitry. This is the true growth mindset. Yes, we did this together. My seven-year-old is now my co-product designer. That is how ResiliBrain started.
Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology · AI Researcher · APEC Recognised STEAM Women Leader
I care deeply about what the science says: how children's brains develop, how emotional regulation grows, and what parents can do in the moments that matter most.
My scientific parenting journey started more than ten years ago with BrainyMama, my personal Mandarin blog on child development. From there I moved into AI research, using real parent–infant interaction to build virtual baby modelling, and then to a startup focused on pregnancy through the first two years of life.
Now, I am here. Bringing my background in neuroscience and psychology, my AI fluency, and my passion for families and children. Building something I believe every family deserves.
ResiliBrain is being built for all families. These are the commitments that make that real.
ResiliBrain is an education and relationship resource — not a therapy or diagnostic tool.
Your family's data belongs to your family. Never sold, never shared.
No penalties, no guilt notifications, no streaks that punish you for living your life.
The science and ethics come before anything ships.
She designed the product workflows and applied her expertise in psychology and neuroscience to train the AI. Like all AI, it can make mistakes — and we are transparent about that.
Your family's data is masked and never used to train the AI. We follow the highest standards of research ethics.
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