Counselling in a Neurodiverse World

This piece was originally written for and delivered at the National Autistic Society Annual Professionals Conference in March 2024.

[...] Some years ago, I worked with AMASE, the Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh, on a piece of research and report, looking at autistic people’s experiences of mental health support in Scotland. The Too Complicated to Treat report and project not only found that autistic people were being systematically turned away by mental health systems, but also that when we did access support, such as therapy, it was often inaccessible, or involved practitioners with inadequate knowledge of autism, and working with autistic people.