Therapy Services

Assessment

This is the starting point and provides chance to get an overview of your life circumstances – what your strengths are, what’s going well, where the difficulties and barriers are, what is most important to you, what you would like to be different in the future. This usually takes a couple of sessions, and you are welcome to involve any other people who know you well in this process too (e.g. a family member or close friend).

More specialist assessments are also available – for example a standardised sensory assessment or employment related assessment.

Goal Setting

Once you’ve got a clear picture of where you are now, we can start to think about your goals and priorities – the changes you would like to make or the areas you would like to focus on. These might be things like:

• “Feeling less anxious going to the supermarket”
• “Being able to feel safe in myself and have other ways to cope instead of hurting myself”
• “Increasing my food choices and manage the feelings of anxiety associated with this”
• “Achieving my potential in the workplace”
• “Being able to take a shower”
• “Increasing my confidence communicating with other people”

Setting goals gives a focus to the therapy. It also means we have a clear way of reviewing progress during, and at the end of, intervention.

Intervention

This is where we work together towards your goals. I work in a collaborative way, helping you to access and develop your own skills and wisdom. You are the expert on you, and I will bring my knowledge, skills, and resources to help you to move forwards and make positive changes. Intervention is based on a knowledge of how trauma and neurodiversity affect the way the brain works and the impact this has on daily life – your thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and participation in daily activities.