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Aug 20

Contextualising Autistic Experience: 4 Life Domains in Therapy

Date and time

August 20 @ 13:00 - 15:00

About this event

Contextualising Autistic Experience: 4 Life Domains in Therapy Workshop with Vauna Beauvais and Eoin Stephens

There is now rapidly growing awareness that many more people than we previously knew, of all ages, are autistic (probably about 4% of the population).

In this workshop, Eoin and Vauna of Vanguard Neurodiversity Training will be expanding on this growing understanding by exploring the reality of being autistic in the context of 4 domains of life and experiences: The Personal, The Interpersonal, The Societal and The Political. And we focus on how holding the 4 domains in mind leads us to attune to autistic clients, empathise, read their concerns appropriately, and respond with attuned therapeutic responses relevant to each individual client. The 4 domains will bring a layer of clarity to questions such as the following (and more)”How do you hold space for a client’s anger about societal treatment without pathologising their entirely reasonable responses to oppression (whether they can make sense of this yet or not)?” “What does it mean for your therapeutic work when your client realises their natural way of being has been hidden for survival, and they seek to undo this, but also that a lot is still hidden from self ?” “When a client describes workplace difficulties, how do you, as therapist, determine whether this reflects potential discrimination, organisational inflexibility, or that therapeutic exploration is more relevant for that person?”How do we know whether to pursue unexpressed despair, or not – and if so, how might we go about it?” We will present materials as well as hold space for a discussion. And, if you are new to seeing autistic clients, or already established with this client group, we hope that you join us as we articulate the good work that you are already doing and deepen insights to enrich our work.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

  • Demonstrate improved therapeutic attunement by reading autistic clients’ communications more accurately and responding with contextually appropriate interventions that validate their experiences within broader social realities.
  • Develop enhanced clinical decision-making skills for determining when and how to explore unexpressed emotions, workplace difficulties, identity questions, and disclosure concerns with autistic clients.
  • Enjoy a discussion with other therapists, like you, who are already doing good work with autistic clients, and care deeply, and seek to talk and share and enrich an appreciation of the work we do.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

  • Therapists of all modalities and depth or levels of experience, who work with autistic adult clients, or seek to do so.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

  • When we enhance our awareness, insights and appreciation of real lives, and join together to discuss approaches and generate meaning-making, this cascades through our personhood into the work with our clients for growth and enrichment there, too.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Vauna Beauvais

MSc Psychotherapy, Post Graduate Certificate Autism, Certified Transactional Analyst, Certified Cybertherapist, PGCDip Counselling. UKCP registered Psychotherapist supervisor, and trainer at Vanguard Neurodiversity Training.

Vauna is a psychotherapist specialising in working with neurodivergent adults. She has been seeing clients for over 25 years in private practice. She is also a clinical supervisor for counsellors and psychotherapists who are seeing neurodivergent clients and for therapists who are autistic themselves.

Discovering at over 40 years old, that she is Autistic with ADHD herself, she turned her interest toward understanding the autistic experience and what that means for therapists, trainers,supervisors and for autistic clients. Along with colleague Eoin Stepehns she produces a YouTube video series of professional chats about autistic wellbeing and therapy called “Autistically Speaking.

LinkedIn | VAUNA BEAUVAIS

Eoin Stephens

BA Psychology, Dip Counselling, MA Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling, MIACP, MACI. Therapist, supervisor, and trainer at Vanguard Neurodiversity Training.

Eoin is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Trainer who has worked in the areas of disability, addiction treatment, lecturing/training, and counselling/psychotherapy private practice for over 30 years, integrating elements of Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Compassion-Focused Therapy. He has also worked at a senior level in Counselling/Psychotherapy education and served as vice-chair of both the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Addiction Counsellors of Ireland. His work is currently focused on understanding the problems faced by autistic adults, and their specific therapeutic needs. He is autistic himself, having made the discovery in 2012. Along with colleague, Vauna Beauvais, he produces a YouTubevideo series of professional chats about autistic wellbeing and therapy called “Autistically Speaking.

LinkedIn | Eoin Stephens

LinkedIn | Vanguard Neurodiversity Training

Youtube | Vanguard Neurodiversity Training

Website | www.vanguardneurodiversitytraining.com