Welcome
Welcome, I hope this website provides some insight into who I am, my work as a neurodivergent therapist and educator, and how I might be able to support you at this time. I currently work online as an individual psychotherapist and psychoeducator. I also provide content and deliver training, educating in the neurodivergent experience. My aim with any meeting is to provide a genuinely authentic, honest, and enabling environment to share and explore.
Providing you with space to be you
Therapy isn’t always an easy process. Allowing yourself to be genuinely open and honest, perhaps uncovering areas of your being that you have buried or not been aware of, can be challenging, especially if you have had many experiences of being invalidated, gaslit, punished, or shamed. Finding the right therapist, that you can trust enough to unearth and explore what you need to, isn’t always easy.. I know that from my own experiences!
I can’t promise that I am right for you or right for you right now, but I can promise that I will be honest, transparent, and authentic and I will strive to give you the validating and enabling space for you to decide.
Neuro-Affirming
The term neuro-affirming or neurodivergent affirming is flung around quite freely by many who don’t recognise or embody its meaning or importance to the neurodivergent community.
For me, as a lived experience neurodivergent therapist and educator, I see being neuroaffirming as a total embodiment of who I am and how I practice, rather than something I just subscribe to.
It is recognising and accepting the wondrous intersectionality of all individuals! It is truly respecting autonomy, and validating any differences and lived experiences. Part of my aim in therapy is to promote and nurture self-identity and enable self-advocacy. To adapt and honour all ways of communicating, behaving, and processing, all the myriad and wondrous ways of being. Underpinning all of that, is to continue to learn and understand the layers of complex trauma from systemic ableism and oppressions. I do not believe you can truly be neuro-affirming, without understanding why we have the need for the term in the first place.
An important aspect of my work is a journey to understand all neuro-types (not just my own), in order for me to authentically validate, accommodate, and nurture. I am privileged to have worked with and learned from the likes of Kieran Rose (Autistic Advocate), Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms), Dr.Chloe Farahar (Aucademy), Fergus Murray (Monotropism.org), Sonny Hallett, Viv Dawes, Janae Elisabeth (Trauma Geek), Dr. Nick Walker (Neuroqueer Heresies), Robert Chapman (Empire of Normality), David Gray-Hammond (Emergent Divergence) and many more brilliant authentic neurodivergent minds and advocates.
“A neurocosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes neurocognitive differences in experience, communication, and embodiment in the same sort of enlightened way that a cosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes cultural differences in dining habits” (Dr. Nick Walker)