Neuro Affirming Parent Therapy

Neuro affirming parent therapy is something that I could have done with in the early years of learning about my neurotypes, learning about my children’s neurotypes and collaborating with my husband to adjust our life to meet our needs.
 
At that time (and still to this day for the most part) when our children receive an autism diagnosis THEY are the ones shuffled into therapy.
 
I mean, what the what?!?!?
 
It’s almost like talking about 10 years ago, or even 5 or 2 years ago, feels like we could be talking about the olden days.
 
Because in what reality did we ever think an autism diagnosis should lead automatically into therapy OR that the child was the one who’d need it?
 
They get to just keep on child’ing, while we go through the barrage of recognising our own neurotypes, dealing with our own deeply conditioned fears and ableism, attempting to help our family understand autism from a neuro affirming lens and not a disorder lens, wading through opinions, referrals and options and trying to know which feel safest and best.
 
Trying to sleep, trying to observe sensory triggers and the number 1 most common of all tricky parenting situations – being on different pages about it all.
 
But I got you.
 
Because this year I’ve reopened my online clinic and am offering neuro-affirming parent therapy (as well as a number of other 1:1 consults and supervision) and it is just about my new favourite thing in the world.
 
This therapeutic need is so very real.
 
For parents to come together and share, to be heard, not to be judged or given strategies or advice. But to by guided more deeply into your own selves and situations so that ultimately you come away with a deeper sense of your own needs and each other’s perspectives.
 
My consultations are never, ever steeped in advice or strategy but always in self-exploration and awareness from within a neuro-affirming framework. One parent will never be the right one, and the other the one who needs to ‘get with it’. You’ll never offend me by asking a question that you feel you should already know the answer to.

Nope.
 
Every one of you, at whatever stage you’re at, is welcome. No judgements, just support xxx