SATURDAYS - starting 20th September 2025: The ‘Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Autistic Adults’. It is a neuroaffirming course live online (in Zoom). Enrollment is here if you would like to secure your place.
What is it?
What it is: Therapy for autistic adult clients is what we are all involved in. And if you are on this page, you’re at the point of knowing that you are on the quest to deliver therapy that is truly therapeutic for autistic clients, and that there is more to know. This is a program focused on the ‘doing’ of the work. The program contents are not about learning about autism (although learnings do emerge to those of us on the program). It is about the differentiation between what is therapeutic for our client group of autistic adults, and clarity about how we can understand and explain that. Applying those insights in the way that you already work is important, so that you stay true to yourself as a therapist and use the modalities or concepts that you believe in.
Who it is for: Therapists, of all different modalities and levels of experience, who want a place and space with relevant insights that can deepen the client work that we do and support us in building a thriving neuroafffimring practice.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
6 live training days (Saturdays) - Time: 10 am till 5 pm GMT (UK and Ireland time)
2 live group mornings of peer clinical discussion
2 hours of EXTRA training videos supplied for you to watch in your own time
Reading List, and resources are provided (multimedia)
Subject Handouts are provided (our own materials plus relevant research papers, etc)
A Self Reflective Journal to document your learning insights
WhatsApp group for asynchronous chat and to see the extra resources
Video replays are provided for course attendees and available for 6 months
The Certificate is awarded on completion
Automatic listing on the therapists referral directory for 6 months after completion
Free ticket to Live Online Conference event (2026 or 2027)
What kind of approach is it?
This course is trans-modality. It’s not a ‘model’ of therapy, as such. But the training is focused on being neuroaffirming, culturally attuned, trauma-informed, and social-justice minded, - focusing on the wellbeing of autistic clients. We welcome therapists with all backgrounds and training perspectives as there isn't only one modality that 'works' for autistic clients. This course is to help you to make sense of how you already conceptualise therapy and as an extra layer of awareness to applying in your work as a therapist with autistic adult clients.
The Course is Starting September 2025, on selected Saturdays, and finished by End of December. The full description and list of dates, are on the course page and you can also see video clips from the last times the course was running (actual video clips of the segments of training from then).
Quote from Vanguard Neurodiversity Training: "We take the positionality of the bio-psycho-social model, rather than the medical model, in all that we believe in. The course presentations are around big subjects, such as energy management, relationships, minority stress, knowing the self and meeting needs, workplace, trauma, burnout, being a human being, the history of autism as it relates to us therapists, and much more.