Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy & Counselling
Therapy and counselling for neurodivergent people delivered with clarity, compassion, care, safety, and understanding.
A supportive therapeutic space to explore challenges, strengthen self-understanding, process experiences, and develop meaningful, sustainable ways forward.
Therapy that starts from understanding
Many neurodivergent people have had to adapt to environments, relationships, workplaces, services, and systems that were not built with them in mind.
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy recognises that distress is often shaped by context, invalidation, masking, exclusion, trauma, sensory overwhelm, burnout, and the pressure to appear “fine”.
You do not need to translate yourself first
Our approach is grounded in lived experience, professional expertise, community knowledge, and a commitment to accessible, affirming therapeutic spaces.
This means your communication, processing style, sensory needs, identity, pace, and ways of making sense of the world are respected from the beginning, without pressure or judgement.
Therapy for neurodivergent people seeking clarity, safety, and self-understanding
Psychotherapy, or talking therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental health difficulties and emotional difficulties.
Psychotherapy can help and support a person to enable them to increase mental well-being, healing and make changes in their life.
I can offer you a confidential, safe, and supportive space for you to talk freely. I can help you explore and understand your current difficulties, past experiences or any issues that are affecting your well-being and personal growth.
Identity & Self-Understanding
Develop a clearer, kinder understanding of your neurodivergent identity, needs, strengths, boundaries, communication, and ways of being.
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Trauma & Difficult Experiences
Process difficult experiences at a pace that respects your nervous system, sensory needs, communication style, and emotional safety.
Relationships & Communication
Reflect on relational patterns, communication differences, emotional needs, conflict, boundaries, connection, belonging, and feeling understood.
Anxiety, Shame & Self-Criticism
Explore anxiety, internalised criticism, shame, rejection sensitivity, comparison, and the emotional impact of being misunderstood or invalidated.
Masking & Burnout
Explore the impact of masking, exhaustion, over-adapting, shutdown, people-pleasing, and trying to meet expectations that were never designed for you.
Sustainable Ways Forward
Build more sustainable ways of living, relating, working, resting, communicating, and making choices that fit who you are, your needs, values, and strengths.
Affirming, thoughtful, collaborative, and paced with care
We do not see neurodivergence as something to fix. Therapy is not about making you more acceptable to systems that have harmed, excluded, or misunderstood you.
Instead, therapy can offer space to understand your experiences, reduce shame, reconnect with your needs, process what has happened, and explore what safety, authenticity, and sustainability may look like for you.
Working with Emma
I am a neurodivergent therapist, supervisor, trainer, and one of the founders of THINK Neurodivergent UK. My work combines lived experience, professional expertise, and a commitment to creating affirming therapeutic spaces where neurodivergent people can feel understood, respected, and supported.
My approach is thoughtful, collaborative, and paced with care. I work with clarity, compassion, and respect for neurodivergent communication, processing styles, sensory needs, identity, lived experience, and individual ways of making sense of the world.
I bring together professional knowledge, lived experience, reflective practice, and a passion for improving support, accessibility, and opportunities for neurodivergent people and the professionals who work alongside them..
- I am a accredited Person-Centred Counsellor, qualified EMDR Practitioner, Supervisor and have been the CEO and Clinical Lead of a Counselling Centre in the South of England.
- I have over 25 years’ experience, working with many different people in a wide range of different environments
- I am a neurodivergent affirming practitioner with lived experience of neurodivergence and offer counselling for newly diagnosed, self-identified and currently diagnosed
- I have extensive experience supporting neurodivergent people and professionals
- I work with a Neurodivergent-affirming and trauma-informed approach
- I am committed to creating confidential, safe, accessible, reflective, and supportive therapeutic spaces
What people say about working with Emma at THINK Neurodivergent UK
Feedback from people who have experienced our neurodivergent-affirming approach to support, reflection, and therapeutic work.
“Emma has helped me understand my own unique neurodivergent profile and works with me on the things I struggle with. She is informative, compassionate, funny, kind, accepting and non-judgmental. ”
“I have never felt more connected to myself and to life and this is very much due to the work I am doing with Emma. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”
“Looking at both the present and the past with Emma through the lens of neurodivergence has taken away all the confusion and frustration that I have always felt about why I am the way I am”
Accessibility in therapy
Therapy can include conversation, reflection, pauses, written notes, visual structure, slower processing time, or clearer session focus depending on what supports you.
- Clear information and predictable next steps
- Respect for communication differences
- Attention to sensory and processing needs
- Choice around pace, focus, and depth
- Space to ask for adjustments
Therapy may include
Sessions may support emotional processing, identity exploration, trauma work, boundary work, relationship reflection, burnout recovery, or making sense of life through a neurodivergent-affirming lens.
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- Understanding your needs and patterns
- Exploring masking and burnout
- Processing invalidation or trauma
- Strengthening boundaries and self-trust
- Building more sustainable choices
A clear, low-overwhelm process
We aim to make starting therapy as clear and manageable as possible, with predictable steps, accessible information, and space for questions.
Agree Next Steps
We will discuss availability, format, accessibility needs, and what beginning therapy may involve.
Who do we work with
Neurodivergent adults and young people (from 16 years)
Delivery methods
Face to Face or Online via Zoom
Prices
One to One
1hr session starts at £80 - £100 per session
Couples
1hr session starts at £120 per session
I offer a free 30 minute initial meet up/consultation. In person, on phone, or by video call
If cost is a barrier limited concessions available
Would you like to enquire about therapy?
You are welcome to contact us if you would like to ask about therapy, availability, accessibility needs, or whether this support may be suitable for you.
Other services that may also help
Depending on your needs, EMDR therapy or coaching may also be relevant alongside or instead of therapy and counselling.
EMDR Therapy
Trauma-informed EMDR therapy adapted thoughtfully with neurodivergent needs, safety, regulation, and pacing in mind.
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Personal Development Training
Neurodivergent personal development coaching for clarity, confidence, direction, and sustainability.
Services Overview
Explore the full range of therapy, EMDR, coaching. training and supervision services.