Refer with confidence.
Your families are in good hands.
Everything you need to know about working alongside Shine Om — and how to support the families you serve through the new sibling transition.
Download Your Referral Pack →“Every family is beautifully supported through birth. Then the village packs up — and the sibling transition begins.”
The firstborn is forgotten
Every card, every meal train, every check-in goes to the newborn. Your firstborn — who has just lost their entire world — gets told to be a good helper.
The parents are depleted
Split between two children, running on no sleep, trying to hold it all together. Their window of tolerance is narrower than it has ever been.
Nobody is talking about it
The sibling transition is one of the most significant seasons in family life. And it is almost completely unsupported. That is the gap Shine Om works in.
Who to refer to Rachel
Your clinical judgment always comes first. This is simply a guide to help you identify when Shine Om might be the right next step for a family.
Consider referring if your client…
- Has a newborn and a firstborn who is struggling — hitting, regressing, withdrawing
- Is pregnant with their second and wants to prepare intentionally
- Is expressing concern or asking questions about how they will cope with two children, or how their older child will respond
- Mentions the sibling transition, firstborn regression, or family disconnection
- Is asking about parenting support beyond the birth window
- Seems depleted, reactive, or disconnected from their older child
- Is navigating the emotional load of splitting themselves between two children
Better referred elsewhere if…
- They are seeking birth trauma processing (refer to somatic therapist)
- They need clinical mental health support (refer to psychologist)
- They want an in-person or online group program or parenting class format
- Their primary need is postnatal physical recovery
Your referral partner offers
Two ways families you refer can access the Joyful Parenting Project at a reduced investment.
What you receive as a referral partner
This is a genuine two-way relationship. Here’s how Shine Om supports your work in return.
Listed on the Shine Om Referral Partner page
Your name and practice featured on shineom.com.au as a recommended specialist.
Free nervous system quiz for your clients
A 3-minute self-assessment with personalised support — a genuinely useful resource to share with the families you work with.
Free resources to share with your community
Access to Shine Om resources, content, and tools you can share with your clients as a value-add to your own services.
First access to new offerings for your clients
Priority access to Shine Om workshops, group programs, and events for you to share with your clients — before they open to the general public.
A practitioner who takes care of your referrals
Every family you send to Rachel will be treated with the same quality of attention you give your own clients. That is the promise.
A coffee and a conversation
Rachel loves connecting with the practitioners in her community — in person in Canberra, or over Zoom if you’re elsewhere.
The Joyful Parenting Project
The JPP is a boutique 1:1 coaching program for families navigating the new sibling transition — before, during, and after the baby arrives.
Rachel works with a maximum of three families at a time. This is not a course. It is not a group program. It is personal, daily, nervous-system-informed support — tailored to the specific family, delivered via Telegram so Rachel is present in the actual hard moments.
Available Australia-wide.
What’s included
- 📱 12 weeks of daily voice & text coaching via Telegram
- 💻 Opening, mid-point & closing Zoom calls with Rachel
- 📋 Weekly content drops tailored to the specific family
- 🎙️ Voice memo coaching in real time
- 🧠 Nervous system tools, play prompts & printable resources
We recently completed eight weeks with Rach through the Joyful Parenting Project, and it has genuinely changed our family life. She gave us practical tools, but more importantly, the confidence to use them. We can now recognise when a situation may be dysregulating for our son and have really effective techniques to support him through it. Rach supported us as parents too — helping us understand our own nervous systems and create simple habits that help us feel more regulated and connected as a family.
Download your referral pack
Sign up below and we’ll send your pack straight to your inbox. You’ll also be added to the Shine Om referral partner list and we’ll be in touch personally.
Your pack includes:
Rachel personally reviews every sign-up and will be in touch. 💜
Rachel Whytcross
Sibling Transition Specialist & Founder of Shine OmRachel is a family wellbeing practitioner with over 20 years of experience working with children, young people, and families across education, community, and wellbeing settings. She spent a decade as a primary school educator and held a multifaceted program role at Canteen Australia — providing counselling, youth worker support, and grief and bereavement care as part of a clinical team. She trained under Dr Russ Harris in ACT and in trauma-informed practice.
Her work is grounded in nervous system science, attachment theory, and conscious parenting — and delivered with a warmth that makes families feel safe enough to do the real work.
She works with a small number of families at a time. Your referral will always be treated as the trust that it is.
People & services we recommend
These are the practitioners and services Rachel genuinely trusts and refers families to.
Lo Mathias — Tall Trees Pelvic Care
An endorsed midwife offering pelvic floor care, internal pelvic release, Maya abdominal massage, closing the bones ceremony, and yoni steam. Lo delivered my firstborn and I have been seeing her for post-baby care ever since. One of the most beautiful, caring humans I know — I trust her completely with every family I send her way.
Amanda Jezek — The Mumma Hub
Amanda runs prenatal and postnatal yoga in Canberra — classes that are as much about education and community as they are about movement. A mother arriving at The Mumma Hub gets a room full of women in the same season, real conversations, and the kind of held space that feels like a village.
Kellie Hermes — Adora Birth
Birth and postpartum doula, reiki practitioner, Ayurvedic practitioner, and holder of the most beautiful mother blessing ceremonies in Canberra. Kellie tends and nurtures the mother in the postpartum weeks with extraordinary warmth — kind, loving, compassionate, and deeply knowledgeable. She is, quite simply, a warm hug.
Dr Lisa Karakochuk — Balance Family Chiropractic
Family chiropractor based in Palmerston, Canberra, working with babies, children, and families. Well-versed in nervous system care and deeply aligned with the Shine Om approach. A natural fit for families navigating the physical toll of the sibling transition.
Want to be listed here? 💜
Download the referral pack and reach out directly. Listing is available to all active referral partners whose work aligns with the Shine Om community — warm, skilled, and genuinely caring.
Want to connect first?
Rachel would love to have a coffee with you — in person in Canberra, or over Zoom if you’re elsewhere. No pressure, no pitch. Just two practitioners who support the same families.
info@shineom.com.au · 0424 027 623 · @shineomau