On late diagnosis, giftedness, and working well with neurodivergent adults

A good share of any caseload is neurodivergent now: autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or gifted, whether the client arrives with the words for it or not. This CPD is for that work. Not neurodiversity as a topic to be aware of, but the difference it makes in the room: how someone can mask their way through a whole session, why a standard reflective silence might land as a demand, what changes when you stop reading intensity as something to treat.

Introduction to Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

This is a training that comes in two parts:

• Part 1: A live 2.5-hour session: the paradigm, how neurodivergence actually presents in adults, and adaptations you can use in your very next session. It runs as an open session a few times a year, and it stands on its own. You can take it, use it, and be better equipped without going any further. It runs a few times a year. Add your name and I'll tell you when the next one opens.
• Part 2: A full day for the deeper work: sitting with a client through the odd grief that can follow a late diagnosis, working with giftedness and twice-exceptionality without either inflating it or mistaking it for a disorder, and holding the pre-diagnosis space where someone suspects but does not yet know.

On giftedness in particular, I trained through InterGifted, whose focus is the psychology of gifted and twice-exceptional adults. The rest comes from affirming practice and my own late identification, which shapes how the training is built: from the inside, with consent and collaboration as the method rather than adjustments done to someone.

Both parts are built to meet NCPS and BACP CPD requirements, with clear learning outcomes, reflective practice, and safeguarding built in rather than bolted on. Delivered live and online, in English or French.

The Map of My Own Mind

A tool you can take now: The Map of My Own Mind. Eight everyday dimensions every mind sits somewhere on, no score and no diagnosis. It works as a client handout as much as a self-reflection, a gentle way in with someone who has never been asked where they actually sit.