Welcome

If you are a therapist seeing autistic clients (and AudHD-ers) then you may be seeking appropriate professional spaces, learning and sharing events, and resources to support you in your meaningful work.

If so, I’m so glad that you have landed here.

Many of us do work with neurodivergent people as our clients now. And we have had to do a lot of the figuring it out ourselves.

Core training to become a therapist in the first place did not include guiding us to do the work that we now realise we are doing, and is the right work to do.

Neuroaffirming therapy is valid. It is needed. We are all at differing levels of insight and expertise as we travel this terrain of progressing professionally. And we are all on the quest to continue to deepen our understanding and shape the neuroaffirming therapy that we give.

Meeting us at Vanguard Neurodiversity Training could open up options for professional enrichment and support for such therapists.

Many therapists have their whole practice as offering neuroaffimring therapy, while other therapists see only a proportion of neurodivergent adults as their clients. And, of course, therapists may also be neurodivergent people themselves. We believe in therapy that is safe and appropriately effective for neurodivergent people, and enjoy being among other therapists on the same quest.

Therapists like us constitute a growing community, and are seeking meaningful connections and events related to the impact that our work has. . And so that is why Vanguard came into existence. There are a few of us, now, and we are therapists, and autistic people ourselves. We are still in practice, seeing clients ourselves, as well as involvement in the events, resources and activities here for you.

Currently, we have two main things on offer:

  1. a ‘Certificate Course’ on offer. Which is focused as a program for knowing and doing therapy for autistic adults, and building a sustainable practice doing so.

  2. A new space called PULSE - a platform for the community of therapists engaging in good therapy for neurodivergent clients.

Take a look around and see what’s going on here.

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

  • 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

Learn more

REGISTRATION

IS OPEN NOW

Attendance Dates

Fee

The Experience and Resources

The Dates (8 days total)

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

  1. 28th February 2026. Training day 1

  2. 14th March 2026. Training Day 2

  3. 11th April 2026. Training Day 3.

  4. 25th April 2026. Training Day 4.

  5. 16th May 2026. Training Day 5.

  6. 6th June 2026. Training Day 6.

ADDITIONALLY - 2 extra days

Professional discussions Days

A space for peer discussion about our job role, - including any aspect of our understanding of the course cntent, discussion of running a neuroaffirming practice, presentation of your actual work, along with any ‘spot supervision’.

  • 28th March 2026. 10 am till 5 pm.

  • 30th May 2026. 10 am till 5 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)

Certificate Course Program: ‘Working Therapeutically with Autistic Adults’

PULSE:

Resources, news and events for the community of therapists working with neurodivergent clients.

Working Therapeutically With Autistic Adults.

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 is included: With Autistic Adults. There are 8 training days live on Zoom, with like-minded peers and autistic psychotherapists as group facilitators and trainers. Presentations and lots of professional discussion, along with resources and references supplied. Additionally group session focused on the real-life cases of work that we are doing, is on two further mornings.

Find our current training course here. ‘Working Therapeutically With Autistic Adults’

  • 48 hours of CPD (6 training days plus 2 professional discussion days about our role and our actual case work

  • We start on selected saturdays from 28th February 2026

If you feel ready to join us, you can enrol on this page and that will secure your place on the course.

If you would like to arrange a chat with Vauna to explore whether this course is aligned with your work or your professional direction, contact Vauna to arrange that

Dedicated Community Learning

PULSE is new and so is in the very early stage of its existence and purpose.

It is a platform that has resources, news, and events for therapists who work with neurodivergent clients. To access what is on there you create a free account and log in.

What will be on there?

  • Online meet-ups with other neuroaffirming therapists.

  • A library of resources in various formats, such as recordings of workshops and conferences, and informative and useful written materials.

  • Access to workshops or presentations of relevant subject areas, such as: ‘menopause and neurodiversity’ ‘exploring work with clients adjusting to knowing that they are autistic’ ‘How an autistic persons relationship with self is central to unmasking’.