Consultation for organisations

People usually get in touch because something isn’t working. A child who keeps hitting crisis at school. A resident whose behaviour no one can make sense of. A capable member of staff who’s quietly burning out. A head of service running on empty. What they usually discover is that the problem isn’t the person. It’s an environment that was never built with them in mind.

What I can help with

Usually it starts with an audit: an honest look at the individual, the team and the environment around them, so we can understand what a person is actually going through and what’s really behind their distress. From there, the work might include:

• Training your team in how neurodivergent brains actually work, and what genuinely helps day to day
• Looking honestly at your environment, routines and policies, and where they quietly make things harder
• Nervous-system-informed, trauma-aware ways of working that prevent crisis rather than just manage it
• Support and supervision for the staff doing the hard, daily work
• One-to-one support for the leaders and managers holding it all together, who get stressed, overwhelmed and burnt out too

How I work

I don’t come in as the expert who tells you everything you’re doing wrong. You know your setting. I know how neurodivergent brains work and what strategies can help. We work collaboratively and dynamically to create positive, lasting change in the environment.

I come at this from two directions: as a clinician with decades of work and research behind me, and as an AuDHD woman and the parent of two autistic children who were let down by services that meant well. I’ve seen what happens when a place gets this right, and what happens when it doesn’t.

Who I work with

• Educational settings
• Health and social care services
• Residential and supported-living settings
• Employers who want to keep and support their neurodivergent staff rather than lose them

Supporting organisations to do this well is a growing part of my work, and it’s work I care about, because it improves the day-to-day experience of everyone in that setting, not only the neurodivergent individual at the centre of it.

Whether you’re facing a situation that isn’t improving, or you simply want to support the neurodivergent individuals in your organisation more effectively, please get in touch and we’ll discuss how I can help.