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Workshop: Counselling Autistic Adults - Part 1: Reframing autism from deficit to difference

$55.00

Counselling Autistic Adults – Part 1 is a neurodiversity-affirming workshop for therapists working with late-diagnosed Autistic adults. It reframes autism from deficit to difference, offering practical tools like flexible goal setting, scripting, and exit planning. You’ll learn how to adapt your modality to Autistic nervous systems, understand bottom-up processing and monotropism, and build confidence in supporting Autistic clients ethically and effectively. The workshop includes lived experience quotes, hands-on activities, and editable slides and workbook for ongoing use. It’s trauma-informed, culturally competent, and grounded in Autistic-led theory. Suitable for ACA and PACFA members seeking OPD points. If you’re ready to move beyond the medical model, this workshop is your starting point.

Includes
1 × 120 minute workshop + 100 pages of resources (slides, workbook and extra resources)

To read a more detailed description, click on the image.

Counselling Autistic Adults – Part 1 is a neurodiversity-affirming workshop for therapists working with late-diagnosed Autistic adults. It reframes autism from deficit to difference, offering practical tools like flexible goal setting, scripting, and exit planning. You’ll learn how to adapt your modality to Autistic nervous systems, understand bottom-up processing and monotropism, and build confidence in supporting Autistic clients ethically and effectively. The workshop includes lived experience quotes, hands-on activities, and editable slides and workbook for ongoing use. It’s trauma-informed, culturally competent, and grounded in Autistic-led theory. Suitable for ACA and PACFA members seeking OPD points. If you’re ready to move beyond the medical model, this workshop is your starting point.

Includes
1 × 120 minute workshop + 100 pages of resources (slides, workbook and extra resources)

To read a more detailed description, click on the image.

Why buy Counselling Autistic Adults – Part 1?

Reframe autism from deficit to difference.

This workshop is for counsellors, therapists, and mental health professionals who want to work more effectively and ethically with Autistic adults—especially those late-diagnosed or navigating complex neurodivergence. If you’ve ever felt unsure how to adapt your modality, misunderstood your Autistic clients, or worried that your training hasn’t prepared you for neurodivergent realities, this workshop is for you.

What you’ll gain:

  • A neurodiversity-affirming foundation: Learn how to describe autism without pathologising it, using language and frameworks grounded in Autistic-led theory.

  • Practical tools: From flexible goal setting to scripting and exit planning, you’ll leave with strategies you can use immediately in session.

  • Confidence in adapting your practice: Understand how bottom-up processing, monotropism, and spiky profiles affect therapy—and how to work with them, not against them.

  • Lived experience insights: Includes quotes from Autistic adults and reflections on systemic barriers, masking, and misdiagnosis.

  • Editable workbook and slides: Designed for reflection, adaptation, and reuse in your own practice or supervision.

This workshop is:

  • Trauma-informed

  • Culturally competent

  • Grounded in current research and Autistic perspectives

  • Suitable for ACA and PACFA members seeking OPD points

“I had communication issues with each therapist because they expected me to be neurotypical…”
— Autistic woman, quoted in Camm-Crosbie et al., 2019

If you’re ready to move beyond the medical model and start counselling Autistic adults in ways that are affirming, ethical, and effective—this workshop is your starting point.