Peer mentoring and skill development for neuro-affirming and responsive care
For counsellors and educators
Educative support for counsellors and therapists wanting to upskill
Neurodivergent inclusivity is important in the counselling and therapy room. It can be the first time a neurodivergent person is asking for help, speaking about their diagnosis out loud, or feeling the inklings that they may want to be assessed.
We need to prepare ourselves to be brave and courageous in offering a session that makes it easy for our client to have preferences of how the time with us is shaped. This can be tricky to manage alongside the boundaries of how we want to work, whilst remaining vigilant about our own biases.
I am interested in holding space for therapists who wish to build new skills and generate conversations that invite the deliberate un-learning of neuronormative counselling ideas.
Workshops for workplace and education settings
For individuals and co-workers
Neuro-affirming care and responsiveness is important for accountable care, but also for professional development. I offer support for those wanting to build capacity for -
warm and responsive neuroinclusive communication skills and tools
how neurodivergence influences thinking, learning, feeling and sensing
understanding the impact of neuronormativity on counselling ideas and practices
For learning organisations & groups
I facilitate lectures and workshops for organisations that teach counselling or those wanting to upskill their students, staff or practitioners in neuro-affirming care. For example, I currently lecture in the Master’s in Counselling and Psychotherapy program at Adelaide University.
I provide sessions on skill development to build capacity for neuro-inclusivity across care, education and work settings. Skill development includes refining insight into the vulnerability needed when learning new ways of relating and for when relationships in workplace and educative settings are difficult or need repair.
For those working in educational learning support
Suitable for individuals, schools and organisations
Including:
Support for recognising and healing compassion fatigue and burn out
Guidance in understanding the impact of neuronormative frameworks of mainstream education
Ignite new ways of thinking about neurodivergent presentations
Increase foundational understandings of neurodivergent sensory, executive functioning and attention differences
For those parenting neurodivergent children and teenagers
Suitable for individuals, parents, co-parents and small groups
Including:
Understanding the impact of a new diagnosis
Emotional support for those who are mid-journey in the mainstream school system including late primary and secondary years
Parenting children and teenagers who are in burn out, or are navigating ‘school can't’ and school refusal
Peer mentoring for counsellors
Suitable for individual counsellors, therapeutic practitioners or small co-worker groups
Including:
Tools to adjust your therapy room set-up to support neurodivergent clients
Exploration of the impact of neuronormative frameworks on the therapeutic relationship
Re-acquaint you with skills and knowledges that have been neglected or have been forgotten
Counselling for neurodivergent artists
Suitable for individuals or small groups
Including:
Curiosity about 'stuckness' and the possibility of a new flow to your creative work
Understanding the depth of our wholistic need for expression, not just as an artist, but as a human
Explore taken for granted ideas of what good art is and who gets to decide
About me
With a counselling career spanning more than 20 years, including a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Adelaide University (2025), I have developed a deeply intuitive, thoughtful and accountable personal style of counselling.
Underpinning my approach is Narrative Therapy and I have completed multiple training programs at the Dulwich Centre here in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. My training ensures I am an accredited member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).