³Ô¹Ïtv

Publications

, Dwyer Cillian, Fraser Lorna,

Childhood and Philosophy Vol 22, pp. 1-26 (2026)

,

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Vol 26 (2026)

, ADAMS Jonathan

Autism-Europe International Congress (2025)

International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2025)

International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (ISEFT) (2025)

,

SPR 55th International Annual Meeting (2024)

Teaching

My teaching focus is around autism and neurodiversity, emotional psychology, factors that contribute to stigma, social exclusion, trauma and how to promote positive psychological growth. I predominantly teach Emotion-Focused Counselling Skills for Autism Spectrum and for other hard to reach populations. In 2024-2025 I am the academic lead for the new participatory co-design PgCert Neuro-Affirmative Creative-Relational Inquiry

I can offer inter-disciplinary PhD supervision where there is a focus on autism and neurodiversity. These include: PhD in Applied Autism Research/EdD Education (Autism); Counselling & Psychotherapy; & Psychology. I offer PGT Masters research projects that align with my own research interests: Emotion-Regulation; Emotion-Focused Counselling; Emotion-Focused Coaching Skills for parents of neurodivergent children; psychotherapy process and outcome research; pre-therapy; trauma,healing emotional injuries, and post traumatic growth; compassion focused practice; creative methods to support voice and self-expression.Ìý

Ìý

Research Interests

My research mainly focuses on autistic/neurodivergent process with a particular emphasis on exploring mental health and wellbeing. My research explores emotional processing, trauma-related experiences, psychological growth and compassionate practice. As a psychotherapy researcher, I have particular interest on process and outcome research for clients with autistic process, both in individual and group emotion-focused therapy. This includes neurodiversity-affirming counselling and psychotherapy and the use of expressive and creative art to explore emotional experiences, and trauma and healing. I am interested in giving voice to clients’ experiences and use creative methods and affective technology to aid those who have difficulties speaking, exploring non-verbal strategies of expression and narration.Ìý

PGR Supervision: I supervise a range of PhD, EdD, Masters students in Applied Autism Research, Education, Counselling & Psychotherapy and Psychology.

Current areas of supervison include: Vicarious trauma in parents who witnessed victimization of their autistic child; empathy blocks in Emotion-Focused Therapy;Ìý Person-Centred Counselling in adults with an ADHD process; authentic autistic play; relational connections between autistic gamers and their avatars; emotion responses to parenting an autistic child; autistic girls experiences of mainstream school; voice elicitation in autistic young people with complex communication needs;Ìý'autism support' in mainstream secondary school; relationships between autistic daughters and their non-autistic mums

PhD/EdD Recruitment:

Please contact me if you would like to pursue a PhD in Applied Autism Research; Counselling & Psychotherapy; Psychology or PhD/EdD in Education, with focus on areas related to:Ìý

• Promoting positive outcomes in the lives of autistic/neurodivergent people
• Trauma, healing and positive growth
• Trauma-Informed Practice & Compassion-Focused Practice;
• Therapeutic/creative/expressive methods to enhance relational connections;Ìý
• Affective technology for supporting emotional healing and psychological growth

Professional Activities

Organiser

23/3/2026

Invited speaker

17/3/2026

Member

1/11/2025

Organiser

9/10/2025

Chair

13/9/2025

Chair

12/9/2025

Projects

Robinson, Anna (Principal Investigator) Drury, Jonny (Co-investigator)

This six session Knowledge Exchange training course explores neuro-affirming theories and practices for the classroom.
It explores the impact of trauma-related experiences for autistic young people and for those in an educator role.
We introduce the concepts around dialogue, with the introduction of the Autism Dialogue Approach®.
This series is delivered through short presentations of relevant theory and research and experientially through engagement in a series of Autism Dialogues.

24-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2024

Cassidy, Claire (Principal Investigator) Robinson, Anna (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025

Robinson, Anna (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028

Robinson, Anna (Principal Investigator)

06-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026

Robinson, Anna (Academic)

This two session Knowledge Exchange training course explores trauma-informed practice in the classroom. It explores the impact of trauma for the person and the practitioner supporting trauma-experienced young people. It explores the presence of trauma for children and young people reviewed through the medical lens and domains of trauma, the importance of self-care and a range of experiential and practical tasks for practitioners working in the field.

28-Jan-2022 - 19-Jan-2022

Robinson, Anna (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022