You are not alone.
There are many reasons you might be compelled to seek support and help. You might be a parent of a neurodivergent child, struggling with the school or arranging the right level of support, and worried about their future.
Perhaps you’re seeking support with career development, relationships, or communication. It could be that you’re fed up with being called lazy or selfish or that you feel clumsy or thoughtless. You might feel a level of loneliness and desperation that you can’t articulate to friends and family or even be suicidal.
Your symptoms are not character flaws.
Whatever the reason, no matter how hard it is right now, you are not alone. The path you are treading has many people on it, all at different stages and with different abilities, beliefs, and support structures.
Our chairman is one of them and is waiting to listen to you.
Start your journey with us
The easiest thing to do is to say, “We can’t afford it.” Well, good news, you don’t have to. We are a community interest company, and any support offered to families or individuals is done so with no expectation of payment.
You will be offered support through our pay-it-forward system. This works by taking the profit we make from our work with paying organisations and families and investing in you. Or you might want to self-fund fully or partly in the knowledge that the profit from our work with you will fund someone less able to fund themselves.
This is a unique relationship that sits outside of your active life. It is a space created for you to explore and understand your world, build strategies, and create meaning that makes a difference to how you behave, interact and feel.
The relationship with your coach is shared with an 80/20 split. You own 80% of the relationship. You control the desired outcomes, apply the effort and measure the result. The coach holding the 20% will be figuratively ‘next’ to you, guiding, challenging, and sharing feedback, ideas, and strategies for you to experiment with.
Your coach can and will support you with many personal challenges, from communicating effectively, goal setting, and finding your ideal path to where you want to be. They will help you manage and maintain your most important relationships.
Any relationship that involves neurodivergence can be difficult. It doesn’t have to be one of those in the relationship – it could be that you are both supporting and nurturing a child that has a recognised neurodivergence. Either scenario can place a huge strain on one or both of you.
We create the space and challenges, as well as the support, to help you navigate and find your happiness, whatever that might look or be like for you.
Challenges in a family take many forms. Maybe your family includes neurodiversity, or there has been significant change such as a relationship breakdown, redundancy, a stroke, physical injury or bereavement, that has led to a loss of purpose or identity.
Whatever the situation, it can be easy to feel like you’re suffering alone, to attempt to hide your feelings, or to ignore feelings or situations around you. It might feel like just getting through the day for you all is a success.
In family therapy, we work with your entire family, all together and all at once, aligned behind your shared goals and ambitions. Often, we use a technique called constellations. This is where we work on the family as a sort of galaxy. We learn to look at things objectively in order to agree on change, and we then implement that change. It is a fully engaging experience that will bind you closer together through a shared and often new understanding of one another.
We help you learn the skills and strategies to influence the support systems that might exist for you or for a family member that has neurodivergence.
There are many caring and kind organisations and people that specialise in supporting individuals and families. We recognise that it can be a difficult relationship to get right; the support can be so close to us and such an important part of our lives that we don’t want to upset the apple cart. Or it could be that you feel limited, as they must be the experts; surely what they are doing must be right, appropriate, or in our best interests.
We first listen to understand you and your needs for this to change. We then work with you so that you can develop the strategies required to drive that change, and if on the odd occasion you wish us to host that conversation on your behalf, we will do that.
