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Neurodiversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy

We would like to invite you to our fourth collaborative workshop, which will be focusing on working within neurodiversity in counselling and psychotherapy. This is the fourth and last in a series of four workshops.

We will be introducing you to the 勛圖tv Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic and share some of our research findings around the topic of neurodiversity, explore these with you and exchange our experiences. Together, we will come up with some basic 'principles for practice' around working within neurodiversity.

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions. The workshop will be held on the 勛圖tv campus in the heart of Glasgow city centre. We will be providing a light lunch and refreshments. 

If you attend any of our workshops, we will invite you to take part in a follow-up study. The intent is to measure the impact the workshops have had on your practice and what you have taken away from them. Participation in the follow-up research is entirely voluntary.

Please note that registrations will close one week before the workshop date.

Principles for Good Practice: Neurodiversity

  • Collaboration – collaboratively create an effective environment which meets the client's individual needs without assuming preferences for sensory, processing, physical expression, or language.
  • Transparency – encourage the client to be clear about their needs. It's ok to do things differently.
  • Awareness – build awareness and congruence around own biases, limitations, assumptions, neurotype, and potential over-identification. Consider the potential limitations of your 'standard' practice (e.g. use of outcome measures). Identify gaps in knowledge and seek CPD which includes lived experiences of neurodivergence.
  • Respect – strive to understand and accept of the client's uniqueness within their neurotype and respect their individual frame of reference without assumptions, corrective language, or misinterpretation.

Principles collaboratively agreed upon by participants of workshop (Neurodiversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy on 28/04/26).