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Working effectively with Neurodivergent Clients new
A strengths-based approach to developing neuroinclusive practice
Discover the powerful, easy-to-achieve adaptations you can make to improve treatment outcomes and make accessing help easier and less stressful for neurodivergent clients, including those with ADHD…
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Working effectively with neurodivergent clients
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Accredited CPD: 6 hours
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Length 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm)
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Tutor: Sara-Jane Reilly
- Price: £220 per person
Price includes lunch, refreshments and course notes
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I always come away from HG training feeling inspired and excited to improve my practice...
Emily Saunders, General Practitioner
This training will: develop your understanding of autism and ADHD, improve your ability to communicate effectively with a wider range of clients or patients, give you skills which will improve your practice with both neurodivergent and neurotypical clients and increase your confidence when working with clients who present with autistic or ADHD traits. Taking a compassionate, strengths-based approach to neurodiversity, this course will also help you improve treatment outcomes and increase accessibility to help for neurodivergent people.
Waiting List – if a date you would like to attend is full, please contact us to be added to the waiting list.
Why take this course
Alongside an increased awareness of neurodiversity, there has been a sharp increase in the diagnosis of autism and ADHD in adults and people seeking help as a result. Being neurodivergent impacts all areas of life, from work, relationships, physical and mental health, to confidence and self-esteem, and the safety and accessibility of therapeutic spaces.
Sadly, research and client feedback shows that many neurodivergent people have had poor experiences in counselling, healthcare and other support settings. Clients and patients report feeling othered, overwhelmed or unsafe, having difficulty communicating and having to mask their true selves; some clients also feel that their strengths and resources were not recognised or appreciated.
But it doesn’t have to be this way – with the right knowledge and skills we can create genuinely supportive helping environments, where our clients feel safe, and adapt our practice to become authentically and compassionately more neuro-inclusive.
This course is designed to deepen your understanding of how neurodivergent clients experience the world differently and have different needs when accessing support as a result. Your tutor for the day is S.J. Reilly, an experienced therapist who specialises in working with neurodivergent clients and has ADHD herself. Throughout the day, she will explore how typical approaches can cause problems for some people and how simple adaptations to practice can increase your effectiveness and put neurodivergent clients at their ease.
What the course covers
- The invisible barriers faced by neurodivergent clients in life and when accessing support
- A clear understanding of autism and ADHD and current use of language and terminology
- Reflection on current debates and what we don’t know yet
- Insight into how non-inclusive spaces, including in counselling and healthcare, present a barrier to neurodivergent people getting their needs met
- Powerful but easy-to-achieve adaptations which improve access to help as well as treatment outcomes
- The importance of finding out what does and doesn’t work for your neurodiverse client / patient
- Training and practice in working with neurodivergent clients across a wide range of presenting issues
- Invaluable ways to identify untapped strengths and resources in neurodivergent clients
- The core skills you need to build up a specialism in neurodivergence in your practice
- A variety of ways to help neurodivergent people feel safe in your space
- Understanding of how to pace your work with clients to avoid overwhelm
- Ways to reduce stigma and self-esteem issues
- Approaches to effective and focused information gathering
- Invaluable ways to motivate neurodivergent clients
- Effective skills for helping people improve their relationships with others, and themselves
- Awareness of the barriers to building a helping relationship and tools to overcome these
- What to do if you suspect someone has neurodivergent traits, but is currently unaware that this may be the case
- How to help neurodivergent individuals set and reach their goals
- How to work with clients to use their strengths and resources effectively
- Working with the challenges neurodivergent clients may face when implementing change in their lives
- How to build momentum and change over time
- And much more…
Who is this course suitable for?
- Anyone who wants to help people effectively and for the long-term, particularly those involved in mental and physical healthcare
- Psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health workers – these skills are essential to have to work with neurodivergent individuals
- GPs, SEN workers, those working in healthcare, parents and carers who are looking to extend and build on their existing skillset and understanding around neurodivergence.
Our in-person workshops are run in small groups: price includes lunch, refreshments, course notes and CPD certificate.
Course Programme
The ‘Working effectively with Neurodivergent Clients’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm.
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Great and accessible presentation. So helpful to come away with tools I can use – thank you!
Fantastic course which will help in many different areas of my life, especially with clients (and family) with understanding about neurodiversity. Particularly useful for awareness, skills, coping mechanisms etc and to understand and support: personal relationships, familiy, children and a few of my clients.
SJ is brilliant. So professional, detailed, structure, but flexible. She self-regulated wonderfully, esp. when the builders next door started drilling! Brava SJ! Fascinating topic and so widely applicable (clients & therapists / coaches), so much content was covered.
Extremely informative, such valuable insight. Wonderful examples and real life experience.
Content, delivery and engagement was faultless. Found it to be very informative, thought-provoking and useful. Very beneficial to my current skillset.
Sara-Jane has a very engaging way to deliver training. The workshop has offered a great balance between current understanding of neurodivergence and helpful practical tools for the therapy room, it was great to practice these in pairs. I particularly valued to learn from an expert of experience! Thank you Sara-Jane.
Clear, warm, thoughtful and inclusive course, offering a good balance of psychoeducational, compassionate and practical insight. Whilst I was familiar with a lot of the info on ND (being diagnosed ADHD, possibly ASD) I found situating the ND experience within the HG principles very clarifying, validating and useful.
Very informative, inclusive course. Practical activities enhanced knowledge, allowed room to challenge thoughts and try new methods.
One of the best CPD courses that I have been on. Loved S-J’s style of presenting and the information included. Even more impactful when backed up by lived experience. Thank you.
Great course! So much helpful information and practical ideas I will bring into my private practice. Doing the exercises was a really interesting way to highlight some of the challenges neurodivergent individuals face.
Really enjoyable and informative.
Fascinating! The day flew by. I feel I have learned so much that will enhance my skills as a therapist and my qualities as a friend / family member in my personal life.
A stimulating course with heaps of helpful strategies for working with neurodivergent clients. Really appreciated the discussion opportunities.
Great day. Very informative. Lots of new helpful information.
Fantastic. Filled with excellent info and very accessible. Everything was useful, “interest-based nervous systems” brought it to life!
The enthusiasm was contageous! Interesting, excellent course.
Well structured, relevant content. Delivered with personal knowledge / perspective. Everything was useful.
Great info on the differences when working with neurodivergent clients. It was all interesting.
Very clearly taught, with excellent exercises to highlight the experience of neurodiversity.
A very good day. So much was useful
The trainer was very knowledgeable and was able to deliver this very well. Useful to have her personal experience of neurodivergence to draw on.
Great activities – thought provoking. Loads of practical content. The wheel breaking down ASD traits was particularly useful.
Fantastic, bright, light and important.
Very good course. Very knowledgeable trainer and great to hear from the perspective of someone who is neurodiverse.
At last! A workshop about working effectively with neurodivergent clients. Super-informative, practical and brilliantly presented. The activities were really helpful.
It was very inclusive and informative, good pace. The ASD wheel was really useful and great to receive a copy of the slides.
Really excellent course, could have been 2 days. Very clear.
A great day. So much rich information.