Website: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/carol-beaumont-whiteley-a9213a2a9

I offer face to face counselling sessions, online web counselling sessions and webchat counselling sessions for neurodivergent individuals or people questioning their neurodiversity. My main concern is to understand your needs and differences to enable me to adjust your individual differences. I offer insight, empathy and validation for the experience of living with neurodiversity.

I support people to understand the challenges of living in a mainly neurotypical world and teach strategies to support individuals to manage their neurodivergent traits, their emotional wellbeing and common issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, low self-esteem, dealing with stress and past trauma.

I class myself as an integrative counsellor. This means that I use a combination of Person-Centred counselling and psychotherapy skills, as well as using psychoeducation, to support individuals to learn about their traits, their responses and communication styles.

I offer a safe, non-judgemental and accepting space to help you learn more about yourself and to explore your experiences. As a counsellor I believe it is important for me to respect your lived experience and way of being. It is important that I adjust the environment and my practice for any sensory or communication differences you may have. I have an informal and flexible approach to making counselling accessible to my clients so that I can support them to work through the issues they are experiencing, to create self-awareness and understanding; self-compassion and self-acceptance. I believe that it is important that we work together in partnership to identify ways you can develop and change.

The types of issues I support ‘Neurodivergent’ clients with:

-To question and consider the question of being ‘neurodiverse’ and what it means.
-To work through the reality of receiving a diagnosis of a neurodiverse condition, the shock and grief it may cause, and the questions that might arise about the past, present and future.
-To support parents and loved ones to understand your way of being better, so they know how they can understand and support you appropriately.
-To learn to understand the impact of neurodiversity on energy levels and the experiences of overload and burn out, so that you can learn to adapt, de-stress and self-sooth.
-Develop individual coping tools to manage emotions, depression, anxiety and day to day functionality dysfunction.
-To become more self-aware and compassionate towards yourself, identifying your positive skills, abilities and capabilities to build a more positive and balanced view of yourself.
-To explore and work through normal life experiences such as bereavement or loss, loneliness, relationship issues, employment or education problems, low confidence or self-esteem.

Qualifications and experience:
I have been working as a counsellor for 14 years, working as a bereavement counsellor and as an autism specific counsellor. I have a Diploma in Person Centre Counselling and Human Relations I have completed a Bachelor of Science Degree in Therapeutic Counselling I am a professional member of the BACP – British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and am committed to their code of ethics. I receive individual and group supervision, on a monthly basis, to ensure that I am working ethically and in the best interests of my client.