Resilience, in action

Your child doesn't learn to cope alone. They learn it with you.

ResiliBrain is an app that helps you understand your child, then coaches you through the hard moments, so your child can face the challenge and learn to cope.Built for every child aged 5 to 8, especially the ones who feel things more deeply than most.

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Science-led Founded by a psychology researcher and mum

Why this matters

Some children feel everything more, and the hard moments hit harder.

Between the children who have a diagnosis and those who breeze through, there is a large group who simply find some things harder: big feelings, change, sticking with a challenge. They often have no clear label, and generic advice rarely fits them. So they can slip through the cracks, and everyday struggles can quietly harden into lifelong patterns.

up to1 in 5

children and young people experience a mental health difficulty.¹

6 in 10

children with a mental health condition receive no treatment at all.²

1 in 2

mental health conditions begin before the age of 18, and a third before 14.³

The science

Children learn to handle big feelings through co-regulation.

No one is born able to manage strong emotions. Children build that skill slowly, and they build it with a calm adult beside them: someone who helps them through the hard moment, again and again, until one day they can do it on their own. Researchers call this co-regulation, and it is one of the most consistent findings in how resilience develops.⁴

Self-regulation starts forming in the early years, but the brain's self-control centre keeps maturing into the mid-twenties. So children need this support for far longer than we tend to assume. And children who feel things deeply need more of it, for longer.

"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 Child⁵

The catch

Co-regulation works. But it's hard to do in the moment.

Knowing this is one thing. Doing it when your child is melting down, or going completely numb, is another, especially when you are not sure what is going on for them. And generic parenting advice is written for the average child, not yours. The same script does not work for a child who explodes and a child who quietly gives up. Co-regulation only helps when it fits the actual child in front of you.

How ResiliBrain works

Understand your child. Then coach you through the moment.

1 Understand

We get to know the whole child.

Not a label, but a rounded picture of your child's strengths and the things they find hard. For many parents, it is the first time they truly see why their child responds the way they do, and what their child is already great at.

2 Coach you through it

In the hard moments, ResiliBrain coaches you, the parent.

With an approach shaped around your child, so you can stay the calm adult beside them, and they learn to cope. There are three ways it helps.

Rehearsal

Practise hard moments before they happen, like losing a game or starting something tricky, so your child is ready when the real thing arrives.

Real-time

When a hard moment is happening, ResiliBrain guides you through it step by step, shaped around this child, right now.

Growth

When a challenge keeps coming back, a step-by-step track built around it. Your child experiences progress. You experience direction.

Our story

It started with my own child.

I am a mum of two. My eldest feels things deeply and does not always have the words for it. When things get hard, he tends to escape or go numb, and the usual advice never quite reached him.

I am also a psychology researcher. And I still felt stuck.

So I started building something around who he actually is: his temperament, his strengths, the things he loves. I learned to read his hard moments and meet him in them. He loves it. He comes back to it. One evening I asked him what if we turned this into something for every child who needs it. He nodded with excitement.

That is the real growth mindset. We turn the hard moments into an opportunity, and that rewires how our brains respond. My eldest is now my co-designer. That is how ResiliBrain started.

ResiliBrain is built by Dr. Wanting Yeh, a psychology researcher and AI builder, and her spirited son.Meet the founder on BrainyMorphosis →

Where we're going

Building this carefully, in the open.

Here is where ResiliBrain is today, and where we are headed, with families and the science alongside us at every step.

Now

Proof-of-concept built. Developing the testing model.

Testing

First families try it and help shape it.

Research

Generalise across more children and ages.

Launch

Open to families more widely.

Future

Part of schools and family support.

First family testing begins August 2026. Want to be one of our first families? Get in touch →

Our promise

What every family can count on.

These are the commitments that make that real.

No clinical claims

An education and relationship resource, not a therapy or diagnostic tool.

Privacy first

Your family's data belongs to your family. It is masked, never sold, and never used to train the AI.

No shame

No penalties, no guilt notifications, no streaks that punish you for living your life.

We build responsibly

The science and ethics come before anything ships.

AI grounded in real expertise

Designed and guided by Dr. Wanting, drawing on psychology and child development. Like all AI, it can make mistakes, and we are transparent about that.

Built for every family

Designed to work across different temperaments, backgrounds and challenges. No two children are the same, and neither is our approach.

Get involved

Your child learns to cope, with you.That is resilience, built in action.

Help us build it. ResiliBrain is a female-founded, science-led venture, not yet public, and we would love to hear from you.