About us
Kindship founder story.
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 helping families navigate confidently and advocate for the support and care they deserve.
Why Kindship matters.
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!”
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Meet the team
Summer
Summer
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 came later in life - at the age of 30 to be exact. Her passion for Kindship is fuelled by her professional and personal experience of informed parental advocacy and the difference it can make to a child's life.
Tara
Tara
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 Education. Her daughter Willow, who stars in many of our videos, has a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and autism.
Andrius
Andrius
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 business at the age of 14 and always dreamt of putting his skills behind a product with purpose.
Summer
Summer
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 came later in life - at the age of 30 to be exact. Her passion for Kindship is fuelled by her professional and personal experience of informed parental advocacy and the difference it can make to a child's life.
Tara
Tara
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 Education. Her daughter Willow, who stars in many of our videos, has a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and autism.
Andrius
Andrius
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 business at the age of 14 and always dreamt of putting his skills behind a product with purpose.