Neuroinclusive Therapy and Discovery
Welcome, I’m Bex, a Neurodivergent Psychotherapist (MBACP Accred.), Neuroaffirming Advocate and Therapeutic Trainer. My practice centres on holistic, relational, and biopsychosocial therapeutic approaches that support you as a whole, and considers your unique interconnected ecosystem: nervous system, identities, relationships, environment, nutrition and physical health, and the wider social and cultural systems we live within.
Alongside my private practice, I head up the counselling service for Autistic Parents UK. I’m also privileged to speak, write and train health professionals and counsellors, bringing together professional expertise and lived experience to deepen understanding of neurodivergence through a genuine neuroaffirming lens.
Whatever work I’m doing, my intention is always the same: creating an authentically validating, openly curious and genuinely accepting space for you to explore, understand and simply be you.
Providing you with space to be you
Therapy can be a deeply vulnerable process. Allowing yourself to be open and honest — especially around experiences, emotions, or parts of yourself that may have been hidden, suppressed, or never fully understood. This can feel even harder if you have spent parts or much of your life being invalidated, misunderstood, gaslit, punished, or shamed for who you are or how you experience the world.
For many neurodivergent people, finding a therapeutic space that genuinely feels safe, affirming, and accessible can be particularly difficult. Some people come to therapy carrying experiences of harm within previous therapeutic or healthcare relationships, where they felt unheard, invalidated, pathologised, dismissed, or pressured to mask themselves.
At the heart of my work is creating validating, authentic, and enabling spaces where clients are supported to explore themselves with autonomy and crucially without judgement. I aim to offer a space where you do not need to perform, fit any ‘normal’ expectations, or force yourself into environments or demands that cause harm. Instead we can explore in your own way, at your own pace, and in a way that honours your individual needs, communication style, and nervous system.
Neuroaffirming Inclusive Approach
You may have heard the word neuroaffirming being used more and more. But what does it actually mean? For many practitioners don’t realise the true value or importance of this way of being - and it is a way of being, not just practicing.
For me, it means seeing you for who you are, rather than focusing on how you might need to change to fit into a world that wasn’t necessarily designed with you in mind.
As a neurodivergent therapist and educator with lived experience, being neuroaffirming isn't something I simply add to my therapy. It is at the heart of who I am and how I understand people, relationships and wellbeing.
I believe there is no single “right” way to think, communicate, feel, process, relate or move through the world. Your experiences are real and valid, and you deserve to be understood without judgement or having to justify who you are.
This means looking at the whole you — your nervous system, physical and mental health, relationships, identity, environment, experiences and the wider world around you. It also means being curious about the things that may have shaped how you see yourself and how you have learnt to navigate the world.
My role isn't to make you more “normal” or teach you how to fit in. Instead, I want to help you understand yourself more deeply, trust yourself more fully and find ways of navigating life that feel authentic and sustainable for you.
For me, neuroaffirming therapy is about creating a space where you don't have to perform, mask or become someone else to be accepted. A space where we can be curious together, make sense of your experiences, and perhaps begin to see yourself with a little more understanding and compassion.
“True neuroaffirming practice rejects determinism. It centres lived experience, identity, agency, and the messy realities of human lives. It isn’t about boxing people in, it’s about creating conditions where they can thrive as themselves while also challenging the systems that punish difference.”
— Kieran Rose, 2025
An important aspect of my work is an ongoing commitment to learning about and understanding a wide range of neurotypes, lived experiences, cultures, oppressions, not only my own, so that I can continue to practise with authenticity, humility, curiosity, and care.
I feel deeply privileged to have learned from and alongside many brilliant neurodivergent educators, advocates, researchers, and practitioners, including Kieran Rose, Helen Edgar, Chloe Farahar, Kay Aldred, Fergus Murray, Nick Walker, Tanya Adkin, Robert Chapman, David Gray-Hammond, Sonny Hallett, and many other thoughtful and important neurodivergent voices.
“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)