Christine L’Abbé is a transformational educator, Certified Conscious Parenting Coach, and Pediatric Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner who supports families navigating neurodiversity, disability, and complex health needs. Her work brings together lived experience, neuroscience-informed practice, relational care, and education to help families and professionals create environments where children can grow, connect, and thrive.

Christine’s path was profoundly shaped by her experience as the mother of two daughters, including Gabi, who lives with Rett syndrome, a rare neurological and developmental condition. Parenting a medically complex child within healthcare systems transformed Christine’s understanding of resilience, identity, and the powerful role emotional safety and relational attunement play in healing. These experiences became the catalyst for her life’s work: helping families and professionals expand how they see children—and, in doing so, expand what becomes possible.

Professionally, Christine bridges neuroscience, somatic learning, trauma-informed practice, and relational approaches to care. As an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner, she works with children with neurodiversity, disabilities, and complex medical needs, using gentle neuroplasticity-based movement to support physical, cognitive, and emotional integration. Equally central to her work is supporting parents and caregivers. Through coaching, education, and facilitation, she helps families move beyond fear-based, outcome-driven caregiving toward greater presence, co-regulation, and authentic connection.

Christine is completing her Master of Education in Health Professions Education at the University of Ottawa and plans to pursue a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research explores how the relational and emotional climate surrounding families—including the ways professionals communicate, support, and partner with caregivers—shapes parent well-being and the developmental environments in which children grow and participate.

Prior to her current work, Christine spent 15 years in the federal public service leading performance analytics, research, program evaluation and strategic initiatives, experience that now informs her systems-level perspective on improving family-centered care. Through her speaking, writing, podcast, and professional collaborations, she continues to contribute to a growing shift in how families, clinicians, and institutions understand healing—not only as medical intervention, but as a relational and deeply human process.

Christine has been featured on Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s Parenting Mastery Summit and in Brainz Magazine, and has appeared on CTV, TVA, and Global News. She is also the author of the children’s book Our Superpowers: Celebrating Differently-Abled Kids and Their Siblings.