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Contextualising Autistic Experience: 4 Life Domains in Therapy
In this workshop, Eoin and Vauna of Vanguard Neurodiversity Training will be expanding on this growing understanding by exploring the reality of being autistic in the context of 4 domains of life and experiences: The Personal, The Interpersonal, The Societal and The Political.
The Neurodivergence-Trauma Connection
This LIVE workshop offers an introduction to neurodiversity and neurodivergence, as well as the key foundational principles of neurodiversity affirmative and trauma-informed practice.We will explore why being both neurodiversity and trauma-informed matters ...
Understanding Diet Culture and Weight Loss Injections
Diet culture shapes so much of how we relate to food and our bodies, but the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss injections like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro has added a new layer of complexity. Therapists are increasingly meeting clients who are navigating these medications, and the questions they raise can be challenging. This two-hour online training will unpack how weight-loss injections intersect with diet culture, weight stigma, and disordered eating, and what this might look like in the therapy room.
Empathy Problems and Power: Neurodiversity, Queerness and Relational Trauma
Not being understood or connected with can be traumatic, but it’s a very common thing for people with minoritised experiences of the world. This can take the form of overt rejection but also the experience of routinely being missed and ...
Understanding Harm in Therapy for Neurodivergent Clients
In this workshop, we will explore some of the different ways neurodivergent clients can be particularly vulnerable to harm occurring in therapy. Exploring relational harm, boundary violations and exploitation; looking at how we might be attentive to the potential for harm in our ...
A Whole Embedded Model For Understanding Neurodivergence
This workshop will help attendees conceptualise stress, trauma, and harm by accounting for the interplay between intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual stressors, and their impact on mental health, with a focus on neurodivergent ...
Contextualising Autistic Experience: 4 Life Domains in Therapy
In this workshop, Eoin and Vauna of Vanguard Neurodiversity Training will be expanding on this growing understanding by exploring the reality of being autistic in the context of 4 domains of life and experiences: The Personal, The Interpersonal, The Societal and The Political.
The Neurodivergence-Trauma Connection
This LIVE workshop offers an introduction to neurodiversity and neurodivergence, as well as the key foundational principles of neurodiversity affirmative and trauma-informed practice.We will explore why being both neurodiversity and trauma-informed matters ...
Understanding Diet Culture and Weight Loss Injections
Diet culture shapes so much of how we relate to food and our bodies, but the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss injections like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro has added a new layer of complexity. Therapists are increasingly meeting clients who are navigating these medications, and the questions they raise can be challenging. This two-hour online training will unpack how weight-loss injections intersect with diet culture, weight stigma, and disordered eating, and what this might look like in the therapy room.
Empathy Problems and Power: Neurodiversity, Queerness and Relational Trauma
Not being understood or connected with can be traumatic, but it’s a very common thing for people with minoritised experiences of the world. This can take the form of overt rejection but also the experience of routinely being missed and ...
Understanding Harm in Therapy for Neurodivergent Clients
In this workshop, we will explore some of the different ways neurodivergent clients can be particularly vulnerable to harm occurring in therapy. Exploring relational harm, boundary violations and exploitation; looking at how we might be attentive to the potential for harm in our ...
A Whole Embedded Model For Understanding Neurodivergence
This workshop will help attendees conceptualise stress, trauma, and harm by accounting for the interplay between intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual stressors, and their impact on mental health, with a focus on neurodivergent ...
Anxiety in the Modern World: A Conversation with Joshua Fletcher
Join us for a laid-back conversation with Joshua Fletcher, ahead of his new book Same Time Next Week, which comes out on May 14. The conversation will be hosted by Zena Nicholas, founder of The Counsellors’ Staffroom.We’ll be chatting AI, optimisation culture and the idea of “curated calm”.As we’ve come to expect from Josh, Same Time Next Week is an honest and grounded look at living with anxiety in the modern world.At a time when many people are turning to AI for support before they turn to another human, the book brings things back to relationships, messiness and the parts of experience that don’t fit neatly into a prompt box.Through the stories of four clients, alongside his own reflections, Josh explores how anxiety takes shape, what keeps it going, and how we might begin to live alongside it differently.Having received an early copy, I can say that if you enjoyed And How Does That Make You Feel, you’ll definitly enjoy this book too. Alongside accessible psychoeducation around anxiety and OCD, it offers something more relational. It brings us back to our own humanity as therapists, that we don’t have to have everything figured out, and that this isn’t something to fear - but something that can support the work when we allow it.It’ll be a relaxed, conversational space to hear directly from Josh about the thinking behind the book and to reflect together on what it opens up.You’re very welcome to join us, whether you’ve read his work before or are just curious about where the conversation might go.
Neuro-Affirming Practice: Supporting Neurodivergent Clients
A two-hour workshop on neuro-affirming practice and how we can better support neurodivergent clients.Working in a neuro-affirming way can shift not only how we understand our clients, but how we understand the work itself.This workshop explores what that can look like in practice, offering a clearer framework for recognising neuro-normative assumptions and responding more supportively to neurodivergent clients.In this session, Louise will draw on her lived experience as a late-diagnosed autistic and multiply neurodivergent person, alongside her professional experience as a disability practitioner, therapist and supervisor specialising in supporting clients exploring their neurodivergent identity.Together, we will explore how dominant assumptions about what is “normal” can shape therapeutic work, and how becoming more aware of these can support more meaningful, respectful and effective practice.