About Us: Meet Adi & Dana Latter | Hopeful Neuron

About Adi and Dana Latter, founders of Hopeful Neuron in Mill Hill, London

We just wanted to help our own children.

We’ve been where you are. Now we know what to look for. We’re a husband and wife team, and it all started at our kitchen table, trying to understand our two sons.

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Adi and Dana Latter, husband and wife and founders of Hopeful Neuron

The short version

  • We’re Adi and Dana Latter, parents of two sons and the founders of Hopeful Neuron in Mill Hill, London.
  • Dana has spent 20 years supporting parents of children with special needs. Adi spent almost five years as an Educational Consultant at Barnet Council. We’ve both been Melillo Method certified since 2022.
  • We’re not medical doctors and we don’t diagnose. We work alongside your child’s GP, school and therapists.

Written by Adi and Dana Latter. Last updated 2 November 2026.

Our older son didn’t speak until he was five.

That’s not a statistic from a course we took. It’s where this started. We’ve spent over 20 years in developmental therapies since. Both of us are Melillo Method certified, since 2022, and we’ve never stopped learning. Auditory listening. Vision therapy. Posturology. Neurofeedback. Kinesiology. Nervous system regulation. Anatomy.

But the real qualification came before any certificate. Our older son was assessed at the lowest percentile for his age in the UK. Today he is fully verbal, has finished his GCSEs, has friends and is independent. Our younger son developed social anxiety that got worse during the pandemic years, to the point where he stopped speaking above a whisper, even to us, even at home. Through breathing exercises, mindfulness and a huge amount of patience, his voice came back. So did his confidence.

We have dealt with PANDAS, with rage that turned physical, with frustration and anxiety that had nowhere to go and came out sideways. Some years our house was chaos. We chose a different route for our own sons. We believed their nervous systems could be helped to do what they were built to do, and they have.

That is what we bring into every family we work with. We are not coming to this as outside experts looking in. We have sat exactly where you are sitting now, at two in the morning, searching for an answer nobody seemed to have. If your house feels like ours did, we know exactly where to start looking.

Twenty years of learning, still going.

We’ve never treated our own certification as the finish line. Here is what sits behind every programme we build.

Adi Latter

From 2018 to 2023, Adi was an Educational Consultant at Barnet Council. He worked with children with developmental and learning challenges, their parents, their teachers and other professionals, helping identify each child’s needs and building personalised programmes for learning, communication, attention, regulation, movement and independence. He coached parents with strategies they could use at home and ran training and workshops for parents and professionals.

Dana Latter

For 20 years, Dana has supported parents of children with special needs, in clinic and remotely. Her work draws on vision therapy principles, Floortime, Therapeutic Listening and other approaches, and today she leads the reflex and sensory work in every intensive.

  • Melillo Method certified, 2022
  • Auditory listening
  • Vision therapy
  • Posturology
  • Neurofeedback
  • Kinesiology
  • Nervous system regulation
  • Anatomy

This list is the areas we’ve studied and trained in. It isn’t a list of regulated qualifications. To see how we use the approach in practice, read about the Melillo Method in the UK.

One approach, whatever brought you here.

This is the order we work in with every child, because we think the nervous system builds itself in a consistent order.

  1. Regulation

    Help the nervous system feel safe, so a child isn’t stuck in fight, flight or shutdown.

  2. Movement

    Build balance, coordination and body awareness, the physical foundation the brain relies on.

  3. Reflexes

    Gently help early automatic reflexes finish switching off, so they stop getting in the way.

  4. Learning and communication

    Focus, language and confidence get a steadier base to build on.

See who we helpWhat are primitive reflexes?

What parents say about Hopeful Neuron.

More than 1,000 families supported · Rated 4.6 out of 5 on Google · Read our Google reviews

“After an intensive week with Dana and Adi, we saw improvement in our son’s behaviour. He is calmer now, his focus has improved and his sleep has improved.”

Niko & Sanja Apostoloski
London · Son aged 4, autism

“Dana and Adi are a great team, incredibly knowledgeable and supportive. They always found a way to help our son and gave us the strength to do the same at home.”

Faranak Barabhuiya
London

“Very caring and truly have your best interests at heart. Check ins from Dana help keep you focused on working at home. Highly recommend.”

Holly C.
UK

Things parents ask us about who we are.

Are Adi and Dana doctors?
No. We are Melillo Method certified practitioners, not medical doctors. We don’t diagnose, and we always encourage families to keep working with their GP, paediatrician or specialist alongside us.
What is the Melillo Method?
It’s a nervous system based approach developed by Dr Robert Melillo. It looks at the nervous system underneath attention, sensory, emotional and learning difficulties, rather than only managing behaviour. We’ve been certified since 2022. You can read more, including what the research does and doesn’t show, on our page about the Melillo Method in the UK.
What does Melillo Method certified mean? Are you regulated?
Melillo Method certification is a training credential. It isn’t a licence to practise medicine, and it isn’t a regulated healthcare profession. We’re affiliated with the IAFNR, and we’re happy to talk through our training on a call.
Will we work directly with Adi and Dana?
Yes. Every free call, Clarity Day and programme review is led personally by one of us, not handed off to someone else.
Do you only help children with the same challenges your sons had?
No. We work with children across autism, ADHD, sensory processing difficulties, dyslexia, dyspraxia and general learning differences, with or without a diagnosis. What we bring is the same underlying approach, whatever brought a family to us.
How long have you been doing this?
Dana has spent 20 years supporting parents of children with special needs, in clinic and remotely. Adi was an Educational Consultant at Barnet Council from 2018 to 2023. We’ve both been Melillo Method certified since 2022.
Do you work alongside other therapists?
Yes. We work alongside occupational therapists, speech therapists and the rest of your child’s team, and you can keep any therapy your child already has.
We are not in London. Can we still work with you?
Yes. Families in the US, Australia, Israel and across Europe work with us online through the Remote Programme. It follows the same structure we use in clinic, over video, with a home programme we coach you through.

Get to know us a little better.

The podcast

Conversations with Adi, Dana and expert guests. Free to watch.

The Melillo Method in the UK

What it is, and what the research says.

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Certifications & Affiliations

Dr. Robert Melillo, Melillo Method CIES, Collège International d'Etude de la Statique IAFNR, Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation