Effective communication is key to successful therapy. This workshop will equip you with techniques to enhance your communication skills with neurodiverse clients, including an exploration of power differences, expectations, assumptions and adaption. We will explore what words like ‘safe’ and ‘understanding’ might mean for someone with a different neurotype to the therapist and how clear contracting enhances the work.
We will consider several of the everyday experiences of neurodiverse people, the lengths many go to to be accepted as ‘normal’, and the nature of interpersonal relationships, particularly their primary relationship – with themselves. We will consider religious faith as a resource and a possible source of trauma and, as therapists, our expectations, experiences and assumptions that may be ‘live’ in the therapy room.
