I offer peer consultations for counsellors and psychotherapists working with neurodivergent clients and adults who went to boarding school.
I am also completing a Diploma in Supervision and have some availability for pro bono online counselling supervision as part of my training process.
My approach focuses on exploring perceptual and emotional processing differences, attachment and developmental processes, identity, relational patterns, and the risk factors and vulnerabilities that can arise from neurodivergence or a boarding school style institutional upbringing.
Key areas covered:
Neurodiversity-informed practice: coping strategies and interventions for Autism and ADHD, perceptual, sensory, communication and executive-function differences.
Boarding school aftermath: recognising institutional trauma, abandonment, sexual, physical and emotional abuse (both adult to child and peer on peer), attachment, difficulties with authority, intimacy and trust.
Issues around ‘three culture children’: this is where a person’s parents move between countries for work. e.g. diplomats, missionaries, NGO managers and oil executives. It is beginning to be understood that people who grow up in this environment have cultural and attachment differences that can lead to problems later in life, particularly when they return to the ‘home culture’. of their parents. When there is an overlap with boarding school the psychological and attachment processes are often more complex and nuanced.
Vulnerability to Incel and other online extremist ideologies: identifying pathways into and out of misogynistic, radical or abusive online communities; working with loneliness, humiliation, grievance, entitlement, and cognitive distortions; risk awareness and safety planning.
Susceptibility to cultlike groups: recognising recruitment tactics, thought-reform dynamics, and supporting the client’s need for belonging and how to help rebuilding the client’s social supports.
Alternative/intimate relationships: exploring consensual non‑monogamy, kink, polyamory and other relationship structures with sensitivity to power dynamics; sensing the difference between what may be a healthy choice versus possibly maladaptive patterns rooted in past trauma.
Trauma, complex PTSD and dissociation: integrating trauma‑informed approaches, containment strategies and therapist self‑care to manage countertransference and vicarious trauma.
My supervision style is explorative, pragmatic, and ethically grounded. I offer an open and reflective space to explore risk management, boundaries, power dynamics, alternative viewpoints and support in developing inclusive, evidence‑informed interventions.
I am multi-modal in my approach. Though rooted in Classical Transactional Analysis, I am also trained in Gestalt and Person Centred approaches and have a Certificate in Family Constellations. I also include research from psychology, in particular on evidence based decision making processes and cognitive and unconscious bias. This includes what psychotherapists refer to as transferential processes.
If you work with neurodivergent adults or ex-boarding school pupils specialist supervision will increase your confidence and help you practice safely and ethically while being respectful of difference.
I work between 11:30am and 8:30pm Monday to Thursday.
If you would like to discuss a one off peer consultation or ongoing supervision please click this link to Contact Me