About Brain Sprout Clinic
Assessment Designed Around You
Collaborative
Your perspective and lived experience are an important part of the assessment.
Neuroaffirming
Different ways of thinking, communicating and participating are respected.
Evidence Informed
Clinical reasoning and appropriate assessment tools guide each conclusion.
Our Approach
Evidence Based and Grounded in Lived Experience
At Brain Sprout Clinic, we take a neuroaffirming approach that values lived experience and recognises each individual’s expertise in their own life. We combine this with evidence-based assessment, recognising that no single test or questionnaire can tell the full story.
Throughout the assessment process, we create opportunities for people to share their perspectives, describe their experiences, and communicate what matters to them. We understand that people communicate and participate in different ways. Our assessments are flexible and responsive to individual needs, including sensory, communication, and emotional considerations.
We understand that assessment findings can shape future choices, access to support, and a person’s understanding of themselves. We approach this process with care and respect, providing clear and meaningful guidance about what may come next.
Formal frameworks without losing the person
While we value authenticity and diversity, we also understand the systems individuals must navigate. As such, we aim to maintain a neuroaffirming approach while working within deficit‑based frameworks such as the NDIS and medical models, ensuring our reports meet formal requirements without compromising person-centred practice.
Whether this is your first time engaging in support or you are seeking a streamlined process to meet specific service requirements, our team is here to guide you through what can often feel like an overwhelming process.
Our Team
Understanding the Whole Person Together
Brain Sprout Clinic is a collaborative multidisciplinary practice comprising psychology, speech pathology, and social work. Each discipline contributes a unique perspective to understanding development, communication, behaviour, learning, relationships, and everyday functioning. By working together, we develop a more complete understanding of each individual and provide recommendations that are practical, meaningful, and tailored to their circumstances.
Tillie Scholten
Psychologist
Tillie is a warm and approachable registered psychologist who works with children, adolescents and adults. She is passionate about making assessment a positive and meaningful experience, where people feel listened to, understood and comfortable being themselves.
Tillie has extensive experience conducting developmental, diagnostic, cognitive and educational assessments across the lifespan. She enjoys working collaboratively with individuals, families, schools and multidisciplinary teams to bring together different perspectives and develop a meaningful understanding that can help people make sense of their experiences and guide what comes next.
She takes a collaborative and neuroaffirming approach to assessment. She understands that the process can feel unfamiliar or overwhelming and takes time to understand how each person communicates and participates best. She aims to create a welcoming and flexible assessment experience where people feel comfortable participating authentically and at their own pace.
Tillie holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Cognitive Neuroscience) and Master of Secondary Teaching (Science Education) from the University of South Australia, and an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology from Charles Sturt University. She is currently completing a Master of Educational and Developmental Psychology Advanced at Monash University.
Kerry Scholten
Social Worker
Kerry is an experienced clinical social worker who has worked across health and disability services for more than a decade. Her current focus is on health communication and the relationship between menopause and ADHD. She is passionate about ensuring people feel heard, respected and supported, particularly when navigating complex health, disability and service systems.
Kerry brings extensive experience working with individuals, families and multidisciplinary teams within South Australia’s health system. She has a particular interest in disability, health equity and understanding how a person’s individual circumstances, environment and support systems influence their everyday life and wellbeing.
Kerry takes a person centred and strengths based approach to her work, with a strong commitment to human rights, social justice and advocacy. Her work is collaborative, respectful and responsive to the individual, with a focus on making the assessment process accessible and meaningful. As part of the Brain Sprout Clinic multidisciplinary team, Kerry contributes a social work perspective to understanding each person within the broader context of their family, relationships, community and everyday life.
Kerry holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of South Australia. As part of her Honours research, she explored the experiences and support needs of carers of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), further developing her interest in supporting individuals and families affected by FASD.