What I offer:
Would you like to gain some understanding of how your neurodiversity is impacting you, your day to day life, work, relationships, being active, managing feelings and more? Would you like to explore these things with someone who has lived experience? Would gaining deeper understanding of how different aspects of a neurodivergent brain and nervous system might be playing out be useful for you? Would you like some neurodivergent friendly, personalised, neuroscience informed tools, hacks and practices, to aid you in living your best life? Would you like a little space with a qualified and very experienced psychotherapist to be with how you’re feeling about your own ND experience and how it impacts you? Would having an AuDHD/multiply neurodivergent therapist with lived experience be useful in creating a sense of safety and connection?
Perhaps you’re here to learn how to make your work place more inclusive and accessible for your neurodivergent staff? Or to make the interviewing and on-boarding experience at your organisation a more ND friendly one?
If you answered yes, to any of that, then a few or more, one to one sessions, consultations or some bespoke training with me, might be really useful.
I can offer one to one sessions to anyone who identifies as neurodivergent, diagnosed or not. I also offer sessions to anyone wanting to explore possible neurodiversity.
I also offer assessment support, for anyone considering, waiting for, completing or having completed a formal assessment process. This might be to explore the idea, how it feels, to look at paperwork together, help with self advocating or exploring any post identification support needs.
For organisations I offer bespoke trainings and consultations for individual professionals, such as counsellors, psychotherapists, mindfulness teachers and many other mental health professionals. These can be ways of expanding the accessibility of your work and workplaces. To offer advice, information and guidance on responding with more ease to your ND staff and clients.
In my work I bring over nineteen years of work as a psychotherapist and counsellor, as a mindfulness teacher, academic and non-academic teaching, as well as many additional years training in areas such as: neuroscience informed understanding of trauma, anxiety and stress, a neurobiological view of sensory and data processing, a social view of neurodiversity and disability, somatic and neurobiologically informed body based practises, accessible mindfulness, trauma sensitive mindfulness and more.
What I offer is really novel, combining skills and ideas in a way no one else is yet doing. This isn’t just counselling, or somatic or well being practices, or mindfulness, this is a really neurodivergent friendly way to explore and respond to your ND self and all your needs, as well as up to date, social model and science backed understanding of neurodiversity.
What do I mean by ‘Neurodiversity’?
The term neurodiversity was coined in the mid 90’s, it has taken many years to gain traction in wider society and still has some way to go in reaching more peoples consciousnesses. For me it’s a great word, it allows us to see the multiplicity of human diversity with regards our brains and nervous systems.
It is a great umbrella term for a wide range of differences, which I see as being a bit like having different operating systems, so we see, experience and simply are, diverging from the mainstream.
These differences, can very simply put, be seen as differences in the ways we take in, process and understand different types of data. Data might be our own feelings, ideas, sensations or bodily responses, or it might be from outside, written, social, emotional or relational data coming from others. This can present in literally hundreds of different ways, there are many ‘diagnoses’ such as: autism, aspergers, ADHD, ADD, aphantasia, alexythmia, dyspraxia, tourettes, dyslexia, dyscalculia ++
I am happy to explore any or all of these, or the more specific components of being ND. These may be areas such as:
Social struggles, managing other peoples expectations, processing your own and others feelings, managing high empathy, or lower empathy.
Responding to meltdowns, shutdowns and burnouts in a personalised, neuroaffirmative, neuroscience informed, compassionate and practical ways.
Managing life/work/education admin, memory, structure and flexibility.
Having a sense of your sensory profile and how to use sensory joys in ways that can aid wellbeing.
Creating new less pathologised perspectives of your own/your staff/clients ND sense of self.
Disclosing to family, friends, work. Managing when it doesn’t go well, or you don’t want to or don’t feel ready to. Exploring safe and layered ways of disclosing.
Creating ND friendly environments, whilst understanding there cant be a one size fits all solution.
Creating ND friendly on-boarding and interviewing processes. Remember, more inclusive, accessible work places benefit everyone and many ND people are already in your work and eduction settings and you don’t know they’re there.
Nervous system overwhelm and underwhelm, regulating tools for an NT world/workplace.
Building useful routines.
Building resilience from your own inner tools and strengths.
Building relevant self care plans and seeking the right support.
Learning lots of personalised hacks and tools for managing life.
Learning mindfulness and somatic techniques that are more accessible to the ND brain and nervous system, as well as personalised for you and/or your clients/staff.
Plus anything that is coming up for you/your clients/staff or organisation, that needs attention, space or a few new tools.