Christine L’Abbé is an educator, pediatric Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®, transformational and conscious parenting coach, and emerging researcher whose work focuses on caregiver experience, relational care, and pediatric rehabilitation. As founder of Evolve Movement and The Conscious Practitioner, she supports families, clinicians, and organizations in developing more relational, family-centered, and human-centered approaches to care for children navigating neurodiversity, disability, and complex health needs.

Her work integrates lived caregiver experience, neuroscience-informed practice, trauma-informed approaches, relational attunement, and health professions education to explore how emotional and relational environments shape child participation, development, healing, and wellbeing.

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. Navigating complex healthcare and rehabilitation systems transformed her understanding of resilience, identity, caregiver adaptation, and the powerful role relational environments play in shaping how children and families experience care, connection, and possibility.

This experience became the foundation for her life’s work: helping families and professionals move beyond deficit-based perspectives toward approaches that recognize the importance of emotional safety, relational connection, participation, and human potential.

As an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner, Christine works with children and adults navigating neurodiversity, neurological conditions, disability, and medical complexity through neuroplasticity-based movement approaches that support learning, awareness, participation, and functional development. Equally central to her work is supporting caregivers as they navigate emotional adaptation, meaning-making, identity reconstruction, and long-term engagement with healthcare and rehabilitation systems.

Christine is currently completing a Master of Education in Health Professions Education at the University of Ottawa and will begin a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences in Fall 2026. Her emerging research explores how caregiver experience, relational interactions, and environmental conditions influence child participation and developmental outcomes within pediatric rehabilitation and healthcare contexts.

Prior to her work in healthcare and education, Christine spent 15 years within the federal public service in roles related to performance measurement, research, program evaluation, and strategy. This systems and evaluation background continues to inform her approach to healthcare transformation, bridging relational and human dimensions of care with systems thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Through speaking, writing, education, research, podcasting, and professional collaboration, Christine contributes to a growing shift in how families, clinicians, and institutions understand development and healing—not only as medical or therapeutic intervention, but as a deeply relational and 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.