Many counsellors do not feel confident adapting their counselling practices to suit the need of Autistic adults. This is an underserviced population in the counselling space, with a lot of focus existing on the needs of Autistic children and/or with a very deficit approach. This has led to Autistic adults experiencing ineffective or even harmful treatments.

This is a 90 minute intensive interactive workshop for counsellors + other allied health professionals, filled with hands on strategies to make your services neurodiversity affirming, focusing on the sensory differences of Autistic adults.

• Providing sensory accommodations to your clients 

• Learn when and how you might utilise sensory strategies

• Learn about different ways to support clients' sensory differences and needs inside and outside sessions

• Identify what barriers clients face in sensory unmasking and how you can support them in addressing these

By the end of the workshop you will be able to: 

• Understand the differences between sensory hypo-sensitivities and hyper-sensitivities

• Name different types strategies and give examples for different  sensory hypo-sensitivities and hyper-sensitivities

• Utilise sensory strategies with a therapeutic purpose 

• Understand how to support clients in sensory unmasking and identify potential barriers

This training has been designed with counsellors and psychotherapists in mind.  

But anyone who regularly works with Autistic adults or uses counselling skills as part of their profession will benefit from this training.

In this training we will learn by doing. You will be guided through completing your own sensory profile and find strategies to support your own sensory unmasking.  We will also identify potential barriers that you (and your clients) might have to sensory unmasking. Throughout these exercises, you will have counselling and communication strategies modelled to you that you can use with clients during your counselling sessions.

• Engaging & evidence based content

• Hands on activities designed to deepen your learning experience

• Lots of practical examples and strategies

I have tried to keep the costs low by keeping extras to a minimum.  You can add on these extras as suited to your budget.  All prices are inclusive of GST.

You can select each of these optional extras during checkout.  

1. Online resources - $15

• Resource pack delivered to you digitally to download

• Includes a copy of the slides & worksheets referenced in the presentation

2. Hard copy of resources - $75

• Resource pack printed in colour in a folder, shipped to your address

• A free bonus sensory pack 

Certificate of completion

After the workshop you will be sent a quiz. You will need to score at least 80% in this quiz to receiive a certificate of completion. You can have multiple attempts at the quiz.

Claiming OPD points
ACA
You can claim this as a workshop through ACA for 3 OPD points.

PACFA
You can claim this as Category A CPD

ACA OPD points & PACFA CPD hours will be listed on the certificate of completion.

Other associations
Please check with your association if you can claim this training as part of your professional development

Workshop

• Cancellation with more than 48hrs notice - refund of 80%

• Cancellation with less than 48hrs notice - no refund available 

Resources

• If resources have not yet been dispatched a 100% refund is available