AUTISM, ADHD & AuDHD: PRE-DIAGNOSIS, POST-DIAGNOSIS & SELF-IDENTIFYING
Autistic or ADHD?
Specialist Counselling Can Help
Services
COUNSELLING COUPLES THERAPY SUPERVISION MENTORING TRAINING
AUTISM & ADHD COUNSELLING
FOR INDIVIDUALS
My approach is integrative and individual to each client, but my base methodology is Person-Centred. I
believe the client is the expert in the room – it’s my job to help you figure out what you already know about yourself!
Sessions are typically relaxed and conversational, although I will provide structure to clients who need it.
Ideally sessions are 50 minutes, once per week, booked in advance. I can see you online or in-person.
COUPLES COUNSELLING
FOR NEURODIVERGENTS
My approach to neurodivergent couples adapts elements of IMAGO and Schnarz’s ‘Crucible’ method. It differs from my individual work in that it is more structured and has elements of coaching. Couples will be required to do homework.
My ‘client’ in this case is your relationship, rather than any personal issues you may have.
Typical sessions are 90 minutes, once per week, booked in advance. The work is typically short-term, 6-10 weeks. I can see you online or in-person.
SUPERVISION & MENTORING
I provide clinical supervision and mentoring for
counsellors, wellbeing professionals and social care workers.
In addition to working with neurodivergent professionals, I can also support neurotypical professionals looking for support in working with autistic or ADHD clients.
I am happy to do ad hoc or regular supervision or mentoring. Please Note: I I am currently a trainee supervisor.
AUTISM & ADHD TRAINING
In addition to my counselling career, I have extensive lived-experience working and volunteering with autistic and ADHD individuals, including those with
Learning Disabilities. And I am autistic and ADHD myself
I can offer you and your colleagues (or students) autism and ADHD awareness training based on decades of lived experience. My one-day and half-day workshops are fun, interactive and informative. Training can be offered in-person or online, one-to-one or in groups. Fees negotiable.
About Me
Anna Hayward MNCPS Accred.
I founded Not Like the Others Counselling out of my belief that autistic and ADHD people need a different kind of counselling: One that adapts to their differences rather than forcing a round peg into a square hole.
I wasn’t diagnosed autistic and ADHD until my 30s, so I know myself how important it is that people ‘get you’. It’s not about ‘curing’ your autism or ADHD, or coaching you how to ‘mask’ more – it’s about learning to accept yourself as you are, and working with what you’ve got.
Life with a neurodivergence can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be miserable.
I can work with individuals or couples, diagnosed or not. As part of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I can provide you with affirming, empathic counselling whatever your sexual orientation or gender identity.
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