I am curious about how we all process stuff in our own unique way. I can listen and hear you compassionately whether you are neurodivergent and need counselling, or  you are specifically wanting to explore your neurodiversity. 

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For example I have experience counselling

• people who have had a bereavement and are grieving in a particular way because of an autism diagnosis

• people who have decided to have an assessment for ADHD and want support through the process and whilst they are trying medication

• people with undiagnosed dyslexia who are trying to understand why their education and work life has been affected or who have experienced a lack of understanding from teachers and managers

• people with autism who are trying to get work or find reasonable adjustments that will help at work

• people who find relationships hard and are neurodivergent

• people with anxiety who are wondering why they find social situations difficult

 

What is neurodiversity?

Because humans are neurodiverse, we experience and react to things differently from each other. This is true for everyone, but some groups of people have significant shared differences in their experience and reactions compared to most people.

 

When these significant differences are ‘neurocognitive’ (to do with how information from the senses is processed by the brain), the group is described as ‘neurodivergent’. Groups include people with Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, Tourette's syndrome, dysgraphia or sensory processing disorder (SPD).

 

Within these groups everyone will have a different experience and have different traits and these groups can coexist and overlap. There is also the impact of trauma, loss, conditions including FND (functional neurological disorder) and chronic pain that can affect the way we process information.

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My experience

I have been exploring and learning about neurodiversity for over 30 years, both academically, where my dissertation concerned how to make education accessible for young people with autism and within my own life and family, where there are people with autism, ADHD and dyslexia. For a long time before it was officially recognised I was exploring and writing about the fact that dyslexia is a way of processing and is much more than 'not being able to read well'.

 

I have attended courses and done my own reading and research in order to understand and explore the different groups within neurodiversity and well as neurodiversity as a whole, using the idea of a sweetshop or a universe.

 

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