About Untangle
The love and the frustration and the bone-deep exhaustion—and still showing up tomorrow to fight for your kid? I’ve been there. I am there. That’s why Untangle exists.
Untangle is built on one simple idea.
Strategies work better when they’re designed for how your child’s brain actually works, not how the world expects it to.
That means starting with understanding. What’s easy for them? What’s genuinely hard? Where do they need support versus where do they just need a different approach?
Everything here is research-backed, but translated for real life. No jargon. No 47-page PDFs. Just practical tools you can actually use on a Tuesday morning when nothing is going to plan.
My Story
Hi, I’m Meghan.
I knew something was different by the time my son was three. He was bright, curious, intense—but something wasn’t clicking the way it seemed to for other kids. It took two more years of “let’s just see how he goes” and “boys develop at different rates” before anyone would assess him. Two years of knowing something was different, but not knowing if different meant wrong.
When the ADHD diagnosis finally came, alongside other co-occurring conditions that are common but less understood, I thought that would be the hard part. It wasn’t. What came next was years of specialists, assessments, trial and error—and money we didn’t really have. I read everything. Tried everything. Some of it helped. A lot of it didn’t. And through it all, I kept thinking: there has to be a better way to figure out what actually works for my kid, without losing our minds or our savings in the process.
The turning point wasn’t finding the right expert. It was stopping trying to force his brain to work like a neurotypical brain and starting to build around how it actually functions. His executive function challenges weren’t going away—but once we understood them properly, we could work with them instead of against them.
That’s what became the OWLS framework. Not theory. Not a parenting philosophy. A practical framework built from what I learned the hard way, translated into something other families can actually use.
My son is a teenager now. He’s doing well at school. He has close friends. We learned these skills together—and he’s thriving. Not because we fixed him, but because we stopped trying to.
Meghan is the founder of Untangle. She has a degree in Psychology (Honours) and a Master’s in Applied Information Management. But her real credentials are: she’s a parent who’s been exactly where you are, who’s made the mistakes and learned from them, and who believes no family should have to navigate this alone.
Your child isn’t broken.
Your parenting isn’t failing.
You just need strategies designed for how your child’s brain actually works.
OUR MISSION
Every New Zealand family raising a neurodivergent child deserves support that actually works —for their child, their family, their real life.
That’s what Untangle provides: practical ADHD support for NZ families, built from lived experience.
I’m building Untangle to be that place. Where understanding your child’s brain doesn’t require a psychology degree or a second mortgage. Where your child gets a Personalised Parenting Plan, not generic advice. Where strategies are grounded in clinical knowledge and built by someone with lived experience — because both matter
Right now, it’s early. But the vision is clear: a community where no family has to spend years and thousands of dollars just to figure out what actually helps—or wonder if they’re the only ones struggling.
Built by people who get it.
Untangle is built by a parent who’s been there, and growing into a community shaped by people with the same lived experience. Small right now. Built to support.
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