About

Welcome

I’m Joanne, and I’m really glad you’re here.

This is a space for honest conversations and practical support for the adults raising and guiding young people.!

About Joanne

I’m a relationship and sex coach, therapist, and educator who believes emotional intelligence and honest education can change the trajectory of a young person’s life. My work focuses on giving adults the skills and language they need to guide the next generation with confidence and care.

My Mission

My mission is to help create a world where young people grow up informed rather than afraid, and where the adults around them feel equipped rather than overwhelmed. I want to see emotional intelligence and honest, age-appropriate sexual health education woven into homes, schools, and systems, not treated as an optional extra.

Professional Background

Experience supporting parents, teens, couples, and families through real-life challenges and conversations.

Training and ongoing professional development in relationship and sexual health education.

Known for translating evidence-based work into practical, human language.

Founded Growing Up Informed after seeing the gaps in what families and systems were offering young people.

A Personal Note

I don’t believe in pretending this is easy. Parenting, teaching, and supporting young people is complex, emotional, and sometimes confronting. I also don’t believe in leaving adults to figure it out alone. My work is an invitation: to keep learning, to keep growing, and to build environments where young people feel seen, heard, and safe being themselves.

Aunty Teresa, and the Heart Behind My Work

My first children’s book, The Littlest One with the Biggest Heart, is based on her life and the way she loved. Teresa was tiny in size, but huge in presence. She had this way of making every child feel seen, special, and completely accepted. She was proof that you don’t need a big platform to change people. You just need a big heart, and the courage to show up.

Writing her story was deeply personal for me. It was my way of walking through grief, honouring the woman who shaped so much of my heart, and making sure her love didn’t end with our family. I wanted children who will never meet her to still feel her gentleness, her humour, and her belief that everyone deserves to belong.

This book matters because it’s more than a sweet story. It’s the emotional root of all my work. Aunt Teresa’s life reminds me why I care so much about emotional safety, inclusion, and seeing the “little ones” properly. In many ways, she’s the quiet heartbeat behind everything I create.