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 neurodivergent psychotherapist and psychoeducator. I also provide content and deliver training, educating on 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 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. It can feel especially challenging 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, isn’t always easy..
For lots of neurodivergent folk, it can feel especially tricky to find the right therapist or therapeutic space for us to feel safe enough, or enabling enough for us to explore and share. We may even have experiences of therapy or with other health professionals that have been harmful. The fundamentals of my work are about creating validating and authentically enabling spaces. A space for clients to have autonomy, to freely explore in their own way, in their own time.
Neuroaffirming Therapy & Education
The terms neuroaffirming or neurodivergent affirming are flung around quite freely by many who don’t recognise or embody their 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)