Dr. Ruth Tesselaar is a Clinical Neuropsychologist.

She is the Founder and Director of Dandelion Hub. Ruth has over 20 years' experience working with neuro-diverse children, adults, and families in many roles (live in nanny, integration aide, conducting Neuropsychology assessments, providing community based cognitive rehabilitation to children and adults to name a few). Her experience also includes having worked for 13 years as a Neuropsychologist in the paediatric oncology team at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and as a Psychology Educator at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Her geek out area is the development and rehabilitation of executive functions (She can talk about it for hours!). After struggling to find appropriate services to assist families with executive function development, she created Dandelion Hub. She loves making life easier for families, and increasing people’s independence. She uses a collaborative approach and bases therapy within everyday life tasks to assist with generalisation of skills.

Ruth has experiencing working in and consulting to numerous community based organisations, adult and paediatric state hospitals as well as primary, secondary, and tertiary educational settings. She has extensive experience creating and running workshops and also lectures at the tertiary level.