About us
Our dream is a world that celebrates the contribution of our parent community and their children.
Kindship founder story.
Our story started with a passion for parent advocacy and a dream to change the world.
Growing up with undiagnosed autism, our founder, Summer Petrosius, recognised and wanted to do something about the isolation and its impact experienced by families living with disabilities. So, she started talking to parents – literally, hundreds of them, and those conversations led her to Sandy Golder, Steph Wicks, and Tara Thompson, the women behind some of Australia's most engaged online parent communities.
Together, they share an unstoppable passion for supporting parents to build support circles, share knowledge, and make the absolute most of their NDIS journey.
Growing up with undiagnosed autism, our founder, Summer Petrosius, recognised and wanted to do something about the isolation and its impact experienced by families living with disabilities. So, she started talking to parents – literally, hundreds of them, and those conversations led her to Sandy Golder, Steph Wicks, and Tara Thompson, the women behind some of Australia's most engaged online parent communities.
Together, they share an unstoppable passion for supporting parents to build support circles, share knowledge, and make the absolute most of their NDIS journey.
Why Kindship matters.
Well, because our parent community and their children matter. YOU matter.
We’ll happily sing from the rooftops that parents are the best advocates for their children. The challenge is giving them the support, tools, and information needed to feel confident sitting behind the driver’s seat of their family’s disability and NDIS journey.
What exactly that looks like will be different for each parent, but we believe it all starts with kindness, friendship, and kinship. In other words, “Kindship!”
We’ll happily sing from the rooftops that parents are the best advocates for their children. The challenge is giving them the support, tools, and information needed to feel confident sitting behind the driver’s seat of their family’s disability and NDIS journey.
What exactly that looks like will be different for each parent, but we believe it all starts with kindness, friendship, and kinship. In other words, “Kindship!”
Meet the team
Summer
Co-founder and Head of Brand
Summer is a qualified speech pathologist and has had a career working with children on the autism spectrum. She has a diagnosis of autism herself, which...
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Sandy
Co-founder and Head of Services
Sandy is Kindship's Head of Services and brings with her a wealth of knowledge in inclusive education and health coaching. Sandy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis...
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Steph
Co-founder and Head of Community
Steph is Kindship's Head of Community, a role she was born for. Steph has a long history of rallying together like-minded people for the purpose of collective learning...
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Tara
Co-founder and Head of Marketing
Tara is Kindship's Head of Marketing, Creative Director, and our go-to-girl for all things play therapy related. Tara's background is Primary Teaching and Early Childhood...
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Andrius
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officier
Some would say it takes a special kind of guy to work in a tech company founded and run by women. Andrius would probably agree. This guy built his first successful tech...
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Summer
Co-founder and Head of Brand
Summer is a qualified speech pathologist and has had a career working with children on the autism spectrum. She has a diagnosis of autism herself, which...
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Sandy
Co-founder and Head of Services
Sandy is Kindship's Head of Services and brings with her a wealth of knowledge in inclusive education and health coaching. Sandy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis...
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Steph
Co-founder and Head of Community
Steph is Kindship's Head of Community, a role she was born for. Steph has a long history of rallying together like-minded people for the purpose of collective learning...
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