Neuroaffirming Therapy and Psychoeducation
Welcome, I’m Bex, a neurodivergent Psychotherapist, Psychoeducator, and accredited member of the BACP. I offer holistic, trauma-informed support for neurodivergent adults and parents/carers seeking a space where they can feel genuinely understood, validated, and safe to explore.
My work is grounded in lived experience, relational therapy, and a deeply neuroaffirming approach that sees each person as a whole, not just through the lens of mental health, but through the interconnected experiences of mindbody. Our whole ecosystems matter - nervous system, identity, relationships, environment, nutrition and physical health, burnout, and the wider social and cultural systems we live within.
Providing you with space to be you
Therapy can be a deeply vulnerable process. Allowing yourself to be open and honest — especially around experiences, emotions, or parts of yourself that may have been hidden, suppressed, or never fully understood. This can feel even harder if you have spent much of your life being invalidated, misunderstood, gaslit, punished, or shamed for who you are or how you experience the world.
For many neurodivergent people, finding a therapeutic space that genuinely feels safe, affirming, and accessible can be particularly difficult. Some people come to therapy carrying experiences of harm within previous therapeutic or healthcare relationships, where they felt pathologised, dismissed, or pressured to mask themselves.
At the heart of my work is the creation of validating, authentic, and enabling spaces where clients are supported to explore themselves with autonomy and without judgement. I aim to offer a space where you do not need to perform, fit expectations, or force yourself into rigid therapeutic models, but instead can explore in your own way, at your own pace, and in a way that honours your individual needs, communication style, and nervous system.
Neuroaffirming Therapy & Education
The terms neuroaffirming and neurodivergent-affirming are increasingly used in therapeutic and professional spaces, without much care or knowledge of why the term is so important to the neurodivergent community. They carry deep significance, rooted in the lived realities of navigating systems and environments that have often misunderstood, pathologised, or excluded difference.
As a neurodivergent therapist and educator with lived experience, being neuroaffirming is not something I simply “apply” within my work, it is foundational and fundamental part of who I am, how I understand people, relationships, wellbeing, and therapeutic approach and it why I advocate for working in a holistic way - to view the whole ecosystem of a person and the environments we are within.
For me, neuroaffirming practice means recognising and valuing the full complexity and intersectionality of each individual. It means truly respecting autonomy, validating lived experience, and understanding that there is no single “right” way to communicate, process, relate, behave, or exist in the world.
A core part of my work is supporting people to deepen self-understanding, strengthen self-trust, and develop self-advocacy in ways that feel authentic to them, rather than encouraging conformity to external expectations or neuronormative standards. Therapy should not be about forcing people into narrower versions of themselves, but about creating the conditions where they can safely explore, understand, and nurture who they already are.
Central to this is recognising the profound impact that systemic ableism, oppression, chronic invalidation, and relational trauma can have on neurodivergent nervous systems, identities, and wellbeing. I do not believe it is possible to practise in a genuinely neuroaffirming way without acknowledging why neurodivergent people have needed affirming spaces in the first place.
“True neuroaffirming practice rejects determinism. It centres lived experience, identity, agency, and the messy realities of human lives. It isn’t about boxing people in, it’s about creating conditions where they can thrive as themselves while also challenging the systems that punish difference.”
— Kieran Rose, 2025
An important aspect of my work is an ongoing commitment to learning about and understanding a wide range of neurotypes and lived experiences, not only my own, so that I can continue to practise with authenticity, humility, curiosity, and care.
I feel deeply privileged to have learned from and alongside many brilliant neurodivergent educators, advocates, researchers, and practitioners, including Kieran Rose, Helen Edgar, Chloe Farahar, Fergus Murray, Nick Walker, Tanya Adkin, Robert Chapman, David Gray-Hammond, Sonny Hallett, and many other thoughtful and important neurodivergent voices.
“A neurocosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes neurocognitive differences in experience, communication, and embodiment in the same sort of enlightened way that a cosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes cultural differences in dining habits” (Dr. Nick Walker)