Neurodiversity

My approach

The first thing to say here is that every neurodiverse person’s experience is unique. I have been put in boxes my whole life based on mine and I’ve never fit comfortably into any of them.

The second thing to say is that I love working with your differences. I welcome your stims, respect your processing speeds, and honour your sensory needs.

My goal when working with neurodiverse minds and bodies is to understand what your experience is and has been. To do that I need to set aside everything I know from my own lived experience, everything I have read in books, and everything I have been taught by experts.

My role is to listen carefully to your individual life experience, and to converse with you on what you share, in the hope that we might come to deeper, helpful understanding together. If it then seems useful to bring some of my background knowledge in I may suggest that, but I am fully led by you in that regard.

Some things that might resonate

There are some themes that come up again and again for us; masking, burnout, medical trauma, non-verbalism, impulsivity, interoceptive cross-overs, CPTSD and other co-morbidities, sensory issues, school trauma, separation anxiety, relational challenges, communication difficulties... I could go on. These are all things I understand, and have both personal and professional experience with.

Parenting and neurodiversity

I love working with parents. Perhaps your children are going through diagnosis, maybe you’re trying to support older children, you might be asking yourself questions about your own traits, or you could be a new neurodiverse parent struggling with specific things that aren’t covered in more general post-natal conversations.

If you would like to talk about working together then please email me to set up a ten minute call so we can discuss things further.

A note on language

I have used the word neurodiversity on this site as a catch all term, but if that doesn’t work for you I will always make every effort to use the language that you feel comfortable with.