A structured two-hour workshop designed for counsellors and therapists on working with grief and bereavement in neurodivergent clients, including deaths by suicide or other traumatic loss. This workshop takes an integrative psychotherapy perspective, blending relational, somatic, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Recognise how grief may present differently in neurodivergent clients and understand the intersection of neurodivergence and trauma in bereavement.
- Identify and respond to client needs by tailoring communication, pacing, and interventions, and apply practical integrative tools to support grieving neurodivergent clients effectively.
- Integrate neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed approaches into grief counselling and support.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Counsellors and psychotherapists working with neurodivergent clients and grief.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- By the end of this workshop, participants will be better equipped to recognise how grief may show up differently in neurodivergent clients, understand the complex intersection of neurodivergence and trauma in bereavement (especially around suicide and traumatic loss), and confidently apply neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed approaches in their practice. They will gain practical, integrative tools and learn to adapt their communication, pacing, and interventions to meet each client’s unique needs, ultimately strengthening their capacity to provide sensitive, effective support to grieving neurodivergent clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Octavia Landy is an Independent Welfare Consultant for Film & TV and a fully qualified, BACP and UKCP-registered Integrative Psychotherapist with extensive experience in trauma, severe mental health presentations, self-harm, suicide, and supporting vulnerable adults. Alongside her consultancy work, Octavia runs a private psychotherapy practice. She also works as a group facilitator and psychotherapist at two London-based bereavement charities, where she provides client assessments and specialist support to individuals affected by traumatic losses and complex mental health needs.
Having been diagnosed as ADHD and Autistic in her forties, Octavia brings a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed approach to her clinical work, drawing on specialist training and years of lived experience to support neurodivergent clients through grief and bereavement.
Before training as a psychotherapist, Octavia worked for 25 years in television production as a line producer and production manager across live events, factual entertainment, and observational documentaries. Her practice is grounded in the ethical standards of the UKCP and BACP and supported by regular clinical supervision.
In this workshop, Octavia shares her clinical expertise to help practitioners deepen their understanding of neurodivergence and grief, offering practical, integrative tools to support neurodivergent clients navigating loss.
