- The Growth Circuit,
- parent-focused,
- psychologist backed.
The Growth Circuit helps parents turn emotional meltdowns into growth moments by teaching their children skills to build emotional intelligence, using fun tools grounded in real psychology.
The Growth Circuit is a parent-focused program created by a psychologist to help families raise emotionally intelligent kids.
Using playful, evidence-based tools and relatable characters, it strengthens the parent-child relationship and builds self-awareness, resilience, and confidence—both in kids and in parents.
If you’re tired of second-guessing yourself, The Growth Circuit gives you the language, strategies, and support to turn everyday challenges into meaningful growth moments.
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Eva Meets Her Inner Team book
In this heart-warming and playful story, Eva discovers her Inner Team: Confident Charlie, Negative Nala, Caring Claire, Thoughtful Thelma, Curious Candice and Impulsive Isaac. Together, they help her see that every part has a role, but she gets to choose who leads.
With colourful characters, relatable moments, and gentle wisdom, Eva Meets Her Inner Team introduces children to big ideas about emotions, self-talk, and resilience. Perfect for families, classrooms, and therapists, this story builds a shared language for feelings, helping kids understand that all parts of themselves are welcome.
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Cards + Book Bundle
$79.99
Learn about the bundle
Meet the Inner Team and turn emotional learning into something children can understand and practise.
This bundle combines the short chapter book Eva Meets Her Inner Team with the 42-card Emotional Skills Cards deck. Together, they provide children and adults with a shared, practical language for navigating difficult emotional moments.
Eva Meets Her Inner Team
In this engaging short chapter book, children meet Eva and the different members of her Inner Team. Through familiar challenges and emotional moments, the story helps children understand that thoughts, feelings and impulses can pull them in different directions and that every member of the team is trying to help in their own way.
The book introduces the Inner Team language through relatable characters, helping children talk about what is happening inside them without turning a difficult moment into a label.
Emotional Skills Cards
The accompanying deck contains 42 psychology-informed cards featuring:
- Negative Nala™
- Curious Candice™
- Thoughtful Thelma™
- Confident Charlie™
- Impulsive Isaac™
- Caring Claire™
Each card includes an emotional skill and a simple action children can practise. The cards build on the language introduced in the book and help adults turn it into practical conversations and activities.
Created by a registered psychologist and informed by established psychological frameworks, the bundle supports learning about emotional regulation, flexible thinking, worry, confidence, self-compassion and pausing before acting.
Ideal for children aged five and over, the bundle can be used in homes, classrooms, therapy offices and allied health settings.
The bundle includes:
- One paperback copy of Eva Meets Her Inner Team
- One deck of 42 Emotional Skills Cards
- Access to the accompanying Product Guide
The characters are not labels or personality types. Every child has the whole Inner Team, with different members appearing in different situations.
Please note: This bundle contains educational learning tools. It is not a therapeutic program and is not a replacement for individual assessment, therapy or professional support.
Emotional Skills Cards
$59.99
Learn about the cards
Help children build a practical language for understanding emotions, thoughts and actions.
The Emotional Skills Cards include 42 psychology-informed cards featuring six members of the Inner Team:
- Negative Nala™
- Curious Candice™
- Thoughtful Thelma™
- Confident Charlie™
- Impulsive Isaac™
- Caring Claire™
Each card introduces an emotional skill and a simple action children can practise in everyday situations. Through relatable characters and child friendly language, the cards help make complex psychological ideas easier to understand, discuss and use.
Created by a registered psychologist, the cards draw on established psychological frameworks relating to emotional regulation, flexible thinking, self-compassion, confidence, pausing before acting and responding to worry.
Suitable for children aged five and over, the cards can be used:
- At home to support conversations between children and caregivers
- In schools to explore emotional and social skills
- In psychology, therapy and allied health settings
- Individually, in small groups or alongside the Inner Team book
The characters are not labels or personality types. Every child has a whole Inner Team, and different team members may show up in different moments.
Inside the box: 42 Emotional Skills Cards featuring six Inner Team characters, each character has one superpower card and six skill cards, which includes a practical skill and action.
Please note: These cards are educational learning tools. They are not a therapeutic program and are not a replacement for individual assessment, therapy or professional support.
The 3am worries
The Growth Circuit empowers parents with fun, psychology-based tools to raise emotionally aware children.
We teach parents and young people a shared language of emotional resilience through:
- A character-based model (e.g., Negative Nala, Confident Charlie)
- Courses, books, games, and media
This is not a replacement for 1:1 therapy (it is also not 1;1 therapy) but rather a tool to assist parents to engage in fun activities and skills that young people will be able to relate to and build their skills base together.
What Makes the growth circuit Different?
Unlike most parenting programs, The Growth Circuit doesn’t just offer advice—it gives you practical, psychology-backed tools you can use with your child in real time. Grounded in emotional development, storytelling, and character-based learning, it’s therapy-informed without being therapy.
This is about connection, not control—and building lifelong skills through playful, everyday interactions.
Hi, I’m Rebecca
Psychologist. Educator. Creator of the Inner Team.
I’ve spent over a decade working as a psychologist with young people and families, listening to their stories, helping them navigate big emotions, and watching the gap grow between therapy and everyday parenting.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
- Parents aren’t broken. They’re just overwhelmed.
And while therapy can be helpful, it often leaves parents wondering “But how do I actually use this at home?”
That’s why I created The Growth Circuit, a place where psychology meets storytelling, creativity, and fun.
Psychology made playful and practical
Parent-first empowerment
Character-led education
The Inner Team characters like Confident Charlie and Negative Nala provide a memorable shared language for emotional awareness, bridging the gap between psychological theory and family connection.
Connecting families one circuit at a time
Designed by a psychologist who is a parent as well
This isn’t just professional, it’s personal. The Growth Circuit™ was created by a registered psychologist who’s also a parent, blending clinical insight with real world parenting. Where resources are grounded in evidence and shaped by lived experience. It’s where science meets the messy, beautiful reality of parenting.
Have questions about The Growth Circuit and how we work?
Book a discovery call with our team and let’s chat further.
