Yolanda Bogaert MD

You can't control every trigger or prevent every hard moment. But you can learn to respond in ways that build safety, connection, and confidence, creating regulation and joy.

Is Your Child Refusing, Resisting, or Melting Down, No Matter How Hard You Try?

What if the answer isn’t doing more, but connecting differently?

You spend so much time trying to help your child eat, participate, communicate, transition, or try something new. And when nothing seems to work, it’s easy to wonder, “What am I doing wrong?”

The Green Bean Protocol helps you understand what may be underneath your child’s resistance and shows you how to use safety, connection, and play to create a foundation for change without more pressure, battles, or guilt.

You’re Used to Being the One Who Figures Things Out.

You’re a capable, successful woman.

You solve problems.
You make decisions.
You advocate.
You keep things moving.

But autism parenting can feel different.

You're carrying the appointments, the advocacy, the sensory needs, the emotional labor, your career, your family—and the constant question:

“Am I doing enough?”

You may have spent years investing in your child's support while putting your own needs at the bottom of the list.

And you're tired.

You don't need another person telling you to do more.

You need a framework that actually works for your kid AND you.

What If Connection Comes Before Change?

But what if the answer isn't doing more? What if it's changing how you connect?

Because real change doesn't begin with pushing harder.

The Green Bean Protocol: Connection Before Change

A practical, connection-first approach inspired by my experience with my autistic son, Miguel.


Want to Try the

Green Bean Protocol?

Get the Green Bean Protoco PDF and learn a neurodiversity affirming, connection-first approach to navigate the hard moments with your child and find joy.

If you'd like help figuring out what this looks like in your own family, you can book a complimentary 30-minute session with me.

The Framework

CALM

.

CONNECTED

.

CONFIDENT

When moms are re-centered, autistic kids are better regulated,

so families don't just survive—they heal, connect, and thrive.

  • CALM

    Nervous System Stabilization

    Create more steadiness in the middle of the chaos.

  • CONNECTED

    Perfection Release & Emotional Alignment

    Release the pressure to get everything right and reconnect with yourself.

  • CONFIDENT

    Sustainable Self-Care

    Learn to care for yourself without apology or adding another impossible task to your list.

Meet Dr. Yolanda Bogaert

Physician | Coach | Coach

Hi, I'm Yolanda Bogaert, MD.

Physician. Coach. Mom.

When my autistic son, Miguel stopped speaking and flinched at my touch, he wasn’t the only one having meltdowns.

I spiraled into severe grief and anxiety about what Miguel’s future would look like and shame that even with all my medical and scientific training, I couldn’t seem to help

Miguel, no matter how much I pushed.

And then the moment that changed me, realizing my emotions dysregulated Miguel. This sparked an entire change in my approach to parenting.

Today, I combine my lived experience and expertise as a physician, neuroscientist to give high-achieving moms a system, the ReCentered Mom coaching, for co-emotional regulation so that you connect with your kids, mealtimes, transitions are easier and daily life isn’t a struggle but a life you can relax and live into.

Physician-led.
Neuroscience-based.
Neurodiversity-affirming.
Human.

Learn More About Mearn More About Me

You Don't Have to Figure It All Out Alone.

ReCentered Mom Coaching

A space for high-achieving moms who are ready to move from burned out, depleted to recharged and grounded.

Together, we can work on:

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Perfectionism

  • Emotional alignment

  • Sustainable self-care

  • Identity beyond caregiving

  • Feeling more grounded and connected

TESTIMONIALS

Real stories from high achieving moms who chose to ReCenter their lives.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Yolanda has changed my life for the better. I was in the depths of hell (to put it mildly) 4 months ago and I thank God every single day that I can talk to her and it’s no miracle that God has sent me an angel in the form of Yolanda! To keep me grounded and rooted to what my child needs and what our families’ needs are!!!

Dr. Gil
Neurologist & Autism Mom
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I knew I needed to talk to someone, but it felt like just another thing to add to the list—another specialist to research and another appointment to book. Yolanda came highly recommended to me as someone with a similar background and the lived experience of raising an autistic child. That combination made all the difference. Despite living on the other side of the world, working with Yolanda has transformed the dynamic in our home. I thought I was doing a great job of masking, but I didn't realise it was putting everyone around me on edge. With Yolanda's guidance, I've gained a much better understanding of myself, and our whole family is calmer, more connected, and communicating more openly.

Prue
Veterinarian & Autism mom
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"In group sessions, I found a community that uplifted and motivated me, changing me, changing my professional outlook."

Dr. Taha
Physician

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