Learn practical tips and strategies to support young people, based on our co-production work over the last four years

Are you working with or supporting neurodivergent young people and wondering why the approaches you were trained in don't always feel like they fit for that young person once you're in the room with them?

Many existing frameworks were designed without placing neurodivergent young people at their heart, resulting in approaches that expect them to communicate, imagine, reflect, and process in narrow ways that can feel restrictive or inaccessible.

This practical one-day training draws on 18 years of experience and four years of therapeutic group and 1:1 work, consultation, and co-production with young people and their families across organisations including Platfform, Llamau, and Cardiff Youth Service, with the voices of young people and their carers woven throughout.

This is suitable for practitioners working in both 1:1 and group settings.

What you'll learn

Build a clearer understanding of common neurodivergent profiles including autism, ADHD, PDA, Dyslexia, DCD, Tics and Tourette's and how to adapt your approach to support

Understand what is happening beneath the surface, including sensory processing, masking, meltdowns and shutdowns, and emotional dysregulation

Explore why language matters and how to follow a young person's lead

Learn low-demand, strengths-based approaches developed with young people

Develop practical tools and strategies you can use straight away in your work

Build confidence in supporting parents and carers alongside young people

Includes a comprehensive 40-page handbook

CPD certificate at the end of the course

Who this session is for

This session is for practitioners who:

Work with neurodivergent young people in therapeutic, educational, or support settings, including counsellors, supervisors, youth workers, and keyworkers

Find that standard approaches don't always work for the young people in their care

Want clearer ways of understanding what sits underneath what they are seeing

Are looking for practical approaches they can use immediately

About the facilitator

This session is delivered by Ange McMillan, an Autistic counsellor, clinical supervisor, and trainer with 18 years of clinical experience.

Ange believes that therapy needs to change if it is going to meet the needs of anxious and neurodivergent young people, and has spent four years developing and co-producing an approach with young people and their families that does exactly that.

Her lived experience informs everything she delivers.

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