Meet Me Where I Am: Working with Neurodivergent Clients With Louise Ordish and Henri Ray

Meet Me Where I Am: Working with Neurodivergent Clients

In your clinical work are you:

• Noticing more clients talking about being neurodivergent or thinking they might be?
• Working with people waiting for an assessment or who have just received a diagnosis, and they want support to process it?
• Unsure about whether, or how, to change your approach with these clients?
• Noticing that clients are using language you’d like to explore more fully, like AuDHD, ADHD paralysis, meltdown, shutdown, autistic burnout?

This one-day in-person training course will help you build skills and confidence in working with neurodivergent clients, particularly those with ADHD and autism.

We hope attendees will:

Understand Neurodivergent Profiles and Common Experiences

• Develop an understanding of autism and ADHD, including the unique and overlapping characteristics of these profiles
• See how these profiles might be experienced both by diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals

Appreciate the Impacts on Day-to-Day Life, Relationships, and Mental Health

• Understand how differences in emotional regulation and social connection affect daily life, relationships and self-perception
• Be aware of the resulting issues that often lead individuals with ADHD or autism to seek therapeutic support.

Adapt Therapeutic Approaches for Neurodivergent Clients

• Develop skills to build an effective therapeutic alliance with individuals who have experienced few or no trusted relationships
• Adapt therapeutic practices to work effectively with autistic and ADHD clients and those who might be neurodivergent

Support Sensory and Emotional Dysregulation

• Gain techniques for helping clients with sensory or emotional dysregulation, creating a therapeutic environment that feels safe, grounded, and responsive to individual needs.

Facilitate Deeper Emotional Connection

• Learn approaches to support neurodivergent clients in building or deepening their connection to their emotional experiences, honouring each client’s natural emotional range and expression.

Strengthen Sense of Self and Self-Worth

• Equip clients with strategies to cultivate a stronger sense of self and self-worth, supporting them as they define and pursue roles and identities that align with their personal values and goals.

Louise Ordish is a psychodynamic counsellor who self-identified as autistic in her 40s, after other family members were diagnosed with neurodivergent profiles. She brings a personal connection to the world of neurodivergence into her work which is mostly with autistic clients and those with ADHD. She is committed to creating supportive, inclusive therapeutic spaces. Alongside her practice, Louise provides training for counsellors, equipping them to work confidently and authentically with neurodivergent clients by deepening their understanding and fostering genuine connections.

Henrietta Ray (Henri) is a psychodynamic counsellor who works with adolescents in schools and adults in private practice. She has specialist training in supporting neurodivergent clients with eating disorders and disordered eating. As a neurodiversity-affirming therapist, Henri values the unique strengths and perspectives of each individual, celebrating neurodivergent identities without seeking to “fix” or alter them. She is committed to creating a supportive, inclusive therapeutic space that honours each person’s distinctive qualities and rights.

This is an IN PERSON-ONLY EVENT.

Open to psychological therapists (including trainees) from all modalities and healthcare professionals.

Early bird price before 7th May: £110, or after £120.

CPD certificates will be supplied.

Refreshments and parking included but not lunch.