Direct delivery of emotional wellbeing and psychoeducational sessions for children and young people within school and alternative provision settings. All programmes are fully delivered by me — schools don't need to find curriculum time or trained staff to run them. Each programme can be scheduled flexibly around your timetable, and standalone morning or afternoon sessions are also available for schools who want a taster before committing to a full programme.
Finding Your Thread
A six-session emotional wellbeing group programme for neurodivergent young people. Each session uses creative, interactive and low-demand approaches — never requiring verbal communication as the only way in. Scheduled flexibly around your timetable.
What young people gain
- A working vocabulary for emotions and inner states, through creative exploration rather than instruction
- Tools for recognising and navigating comfort zones, using movement and scenario-based activities
- Awareness of personal strengths and difference as a feature, not a deficit
- Experience of co-regulation within a safe, consistent group environment
- Confidence in self-expression across multiple modalities — drawing, movement, sound, storytelling
- A sense of completion and achievement, marked with a personalised certificate
Strengthening Your Thread
The follow-on programme for young people who have completed Finding Your Thread. Six further sessions covering identity, boundaries, friendship, body awareness, self-compassion and integration — on the same low-demand, creative foundations.
What young people gain
- Deeper understanding of identity — including the many versions of self and the experience of masking
- A felt sense of personal boundaries — explored through drama, movement and physical space
- Skills for navigating friendship, connection and social difference
- Body-based awareness of feelings as physical sensations, not just cognitive labels
- Self-compassion and repair — explored through Kintsugi and visible mending concepts
- Integration and continuity through a thread-weaving project running across all six sessions
School Transition Workshops
An interactive, psychoeducational workshop offer supporting young people through the primary to secondary school transition. Delivery is shaped around what works for your school — a single morning or afternoon session, or spread across multiple visits. Get in touch to discuss what would suit your cohort best.
Themes covered
- Naming and normalising anxieties about starting secondary school
- Understanding what the nervous system does under stress and change
- Practical tools for managing new environments, routines and social dynamics
- Building a sense of preparedness and confidence going into Year 7
- Creative and interactive throughout — no worksheets, no lectures
Healthy Friendships
A psychoeducational workshop offer exploring healthy friendships, social connection and peer relationships — aimed at Years 7 and 8. Delivery is shaped around what works for your school — a single morning or afternoon session, or spread across multiple visits. Get in touch to discuss what would suit your cohort best.
Themes covered
- What makes a friendship healthy — and what makes it not
- Navigating conflict, social pressure and the need to belong
- Understanding personal relational needs and patterns
- Language for setting and respecting boundaries in friendships
- A non-judgmental space to explore the real complexity of social connection at this age
Accessible, honest workshops for parents and carers — giving families real information, practical strategies, and space to ask the questions they've been carrying. Delivered with lived experience at the centre. No jargon. No deficit framing.
Demystifying Autism & ADHD
A four-session programme that cuts through the language, the labels and the system noise to give parents what they actually need: honest, accessible psychoeducation about autism and ADHD — through a neuroaffirming lens, not a deficit one. Delivered in four three-hour evening sessions, designed to fit around working and caring commitments.
What participants gain
- A clear, neuroaffirming understanding of autism and ADHD — what they actually are, and what they are not
- Practical insight into demand avoidance, sensory processing and emotional dysregulation
- Strategies for reducing friction and building connection at home
- Confidence to navigate schools, professionals and the diagnostic system
- The space to ask questions they haven't been able to ask anywhere else
Low Demand Parenting
A practical, honest workshop exploring what low demand parenting actually means — and what it doesn't. Grounded in the science of the nervous system, the reality of demand avoidance, and the lived experience of parenting a child whose needs don't fit the standard playbook.
What participants gain
- Understanding of Persistent Drive for Autonomy as a neurological experience, not a behavioural choice
- Practical low-demand strategies that reduce conflict and build safety
- Permission to do things differently — without guilt or comparison
- A framework for recognising demand across different contexts, including hidden demands
Workplace training that supports organisations to become genuinely inclusive employers for autistic and neurodivergent staff — moving beyond awareness into real culture change. Delivered by an AuDHD practitioner with lived experience and specialist training in autistic workplace inclusion.
Autistic Workplace Training
Specialist workplace training supporting organisations to understand the autistic experience at work — and to make the structural, cultural and relational changes that allow autistic and neurodivergent employees to genuinely thrive. Grounded in lived experience and evidence-based practice.
What participants gain
- A grounded understanding of autism as a neurological difference — not a deficit or disorder
- Awareness of the double empathy problem and its implications for workplace communication
- Practical adjustments for recruitment, management and day-to-day inclusion
- Understanding of masking, burnout and the hidden cost of unrealistic conformity demands
- Confidence to have honest conversations about neurodivergence at work
- A move from compliance-focused to culture-focused inclusion
Staff CPD & Neuroaffirming Practice
Bespoke CPD for education and support staff — covering neuroaffirming practice, demand avoidance, trauma-informed approaches, and emotional wellbeing. Designed to shift how staff see and respond, not just what they know about.
What participants gain
- A neuroaffirming framework for understanding neurodivergent behaviour as communication
- Practical low-demand and trauma-informed strategies for daily practice
- Understanding of PDA — Persistent Drive for Autonomy — and how to respond
- Confidence to adapt communication style, environment and expectation
Bespoke wellbeing programmes, parenting provision and Train the Trainer suites for local authorities, children's services and commissioned settings. Lancashire-based with national reach. All provision is evidence-informed, neuroaffirming and shaped by lived experience.
Understanding Your Thread
A six-session structured psychoeducation programme for parents and carers of neurodivergent children — developed as a direct, evidence-informed alternative to Triple P. Designed for neurodivergent families for whom behaviour-modification approaches are contraindicated.
Programme outcomes
- Neuroaffirming understanding of their child's profile — autism, ADHD, PDA — through a strengths-based lens
- Practical strategies grounded in the nervous system, not compliance
- Confidence navigating schools, diagnosis pathways and the SEND system
- Reduced parental isolation and increased capacity to support their child
- A community of parents with shared experience, facilitated safely
Navigating Systems
A standalone workshop giving families the practical knowledge and confidence to navigate the SEND system — diagnosis pathways, EHCPs, school support, elective home education, and their rights within each. Delivered with honesty about how the system actually works.
What participants gain
- Clear understanding of the diagnostic pathway — NHS, Right to Choose, private
- Knowledge of EHCP processes, rights and how to request assessment
- Awareness of EHE, EOTAS and the options beyond mainstream school
- Confidence to advocate for their child within professional settings
Train the Trainer
A Train the Trainer suite equipping practitioners, family support workers and wellbeing leads to deliver neuroaffirming parent and carer support independently within their own settings. Developed and delivered for Parenting 2000 and Sefton Emotional Achievement Service.
What practitioners gain
- Confident, accurate understanding of neurodivergence to underpin facilitation
- Skills to deliver neuroaffirming psychoeducation to parents and carers
- Tools, resources and session frameworks for independent delivery
- Ongoing access to materials and supervision pathway
Strategic consultation for schools, local authorities and organisations looking to embed neuroaffirming approaches across their systems, policies and culture. Drawing on clinical expertise and lived experience to offer the perspective the room often doesn't have.
Strategic Consultancy
Working with leadership and commissioning teams to review, redesign and embed neuroaffirming practice at a systems level. Includes policy review, provision gap analysis, and strategic planning support. All work is scoped individually — get in touch to discuss.
What this typically covers
- Review of existing provision, policies and communication through a neuroaffirming lens
- Identification of gaps between aspiration and lived experience for neurodivergent people
- Strategic recommendations grounded in both evidence and practice
- Ongoing advisory relationship — not a one-off report that sits on a shelf
Not sure what you need?
That's fine — and it's a very common starting point. The best thing to do is get in touch with a brief outline of your setting and what you're trying to improve. We'll work out together what makes sense.
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