My practice is focused 100% on adults only who are themselves living with high functioning autism and/or HSP and/or ADHD.

The sessions provide:

1) opportunities to talk in detail about one’s own unique experiences living with ASD and/or ADHD with someone who gets you

2) guided explorations which often lead to the revelation of blind spots

3) the discovery of ways to see things from new perspectives

4) the collaborative development of tailor-made strategies to help with communication, boundary-setting and the management of daily challenges or concerns

5) freedom from judgement, no pressure, and the support to work at your own pace

Put another way…

The sessions do not provide “treatment” for ASD or ADHD and are not geared towards treating or “fixing” the person or any conditions.

I share the view that these are ways of living in the world for life, and as such the sessions do not involve attempts to treat either the person or the condition.

At the same time, due to “cultural norms” and “status quo”, we acknowledge the struggle.  Every day poses various challenges and every day stimulation piles in from all angles, and the person is forced to contend as best they can.

The attempts to cope and manage effectively are often burdensome, stressful, anxiety-provoking, exhausting, triggering or overwhelming.

The focus of sessions is on exploration, increasing understanding and expanding awareness.

I help individuals living with high-functioning autism, highly sensitive people and people living with ADHD or ADD to discover tools that will help them navigate and manage their schedules, responsibilities and free time more effectively and more easily.

Also, practical strategies can be developed which may facilitate communication, productivity and overall quality of life.

These strategies are discovered as a result of the back-and-forth exploratory dialogue within each session and they emerge directly from the current relevant experiences of each individual client and are unique to each client.  As such, these strategies are effectively “collaboratively tailor made”.  Solutions that work well for one person might not work so well for another, and discovering solutions that work for oneself can be an engaging, revealing and dynamic process.

I offer counselling for high functioning autism, highly sensitive people and ADHD/ADD related to these areas:

Interaction dynamics
Communication skills building
Interpersonal relationship dynamics
People pleasing
Boundary setting
Feeling like an outsider
Imposter syndrome
Discomfort with conflict
Overthinking
Perfectionism
Emotion awareness
Managing sensory overload
Short fuse, irritability
Stress, taking on too much
The tendency to overwork
Prioritizing
Time management
Procrastination
Scheduling
Organization of stuff
Goal setting and the formulation of action plans
Developing doable productivity
Life transitions, navigating expected and unexpected changes
Decision-making
Personal growth and development
Self worth, self esteem
Self-awareness building, getting to know oneself
Whole-self / holistic counselling: cognitive, emotional, and physical quality of life

A key benefit of sessions is being able to talk in depth about one’s experiences of living with ASD or ADHD as this chance might be rare in one’s life.

It doesn’t matter if you have had a formal diagnosis or not.  If you think the kind of counselling sessions I provide might align with what you are looking for, please send an email with some windows of times when it would be possible to phone you and we could proceed with a short intro chat.