Course Discovery Zoom Meet-Up

Monday December 8th 2025

12 noon (UK and Ireland time)

CERTIFICATE IN WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH AUTISTIC ADULTS

Type of Event:

Spaces are available. Please fill the form to book and I will email the Zoom link to you.

For counsellors / psychotherapists who are interested in the FEBRUARY 2026 Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Autistic Adults

  • 45 MINUTES ON ZOOM - (There is no fee for attending)

  • Meet the trainers, find out about what is in the course and what it will be like.

  • You can have your camera on or off and you may speak/ask questions or just listen only - All is valid participation.

You Belong Here If You Are

  • A qualified mental health professional (any modality of therapy)

  • Working with or wanting to work with autistic adults

  • Ready for real talk about real clients and real therapeutic challenges

  • Committed to neuroaffirming insights in anti-oppressive practice with social justice ideology.

What We'll Explore Together (45 minutes)

  • Meet us - your trainers who combine clinical expertise with lived experience

  • Discover the approach - Discover the course contents, style, resources, and benefits

  • Ask your questions - about content, commitment, and whether this fits your practice aspirations

  • Connect with peers - other professionals who recognise this work matters

  • Contextualise - Does this course open up the pathway for real work application and ongoing support

Book Your Place

Zoom meetup

  • Monday 8TH December 2025

  • 12 noon - meeting opens and we start at 12:05

Short presentation, plus info and questions.

MEET US - the trainers, Vauna Beauvais and Natalie Clarke

Find out what is in the course, what it will be like, and discover how, why, or whether it could benefit you or be aligned with your orofessional direction or needs.

This is a 100% neuroaffirming space where we believe this population deserves therapeutic approaches that actually work. If that resonates, we'd love to see you there.

If you have any immediate questions before the meeting, feel free to reply to this email. We're happy to help.

use the contact form

Who We Are

Vauna Beauvais

Vauna Beauvais. MSc Psychotherapy, Post Graduate Certificate Autism, Certified Transactional Analyst, Certified
Cybertherapist, PGCDip Counselling. UKCP registered Psychotherapist.
Vauna is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist specialising in working with neurodivergent adults. She
has been seeing clients for 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.

Natalie Clarke

Natalie Clarke is an Integrative psychotherapist, who works in private practice. She
specialises in working with the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as non-monogamous people,
sex workers, and neurodivergent people. She also works with chronic illness and invisible
disabilities as well as the covid cautious community. Her therapeutic approach is influenced
by queer theory, intersectional feminism and decolonial approaches in her practice. She is
also part of TACTT, campaigning to end conversion therapy and transphobia in the
therapeutic profession.

Natalie completed the Vanguard Neurodiversity Certificate in Working Therapeutically with Autistic Adults.

Attendance Dates

Fee

The experience and resources

TRAINING DAYS ON ZOOM. 10 am till 5 pm (UK and Ireland Time zone).

28th February 2026. Training day 1

27th March 2026. Training Day 2

14th March 2026. Training Day 3.

21st March 2026. Training Day 4.

16th May 2026. Training Day 5.

30th May 2026. Training Day 6.

ADDITIONALLY (included in the fee, but optional to attend).

Professional discussions morning: A space for presentation of your actual work, along with ‘spot supervision’.

11th April 2026. 10 am till 1 pm.

18th April 2026. 10 am till 1 pm.

The learning experience package is £1295

Payable as a one-off payment prior to the course start date, or as 3 payments (with £50 admin fee added)

Early Bird Pricing of £1200 (save £100) is available from now until midnight on 18th January 2026.

What is included?

Access to all attendance dates

Multi media presentations from the trainers, along with group space to discuss and process

Handouts, support materials, and references

Leaning journal / workbook (optional use)

A list of further reading if you’d like to read up or deep-dive into any areas.

Recordings of attendance days for 6 months

Invitation (and free ticket) to our online annual summer symposium (one day on Zoom)