ADHD and neurodivergence counselling in Canterbury
Affirming counselling for adults and young people living with ADHD or autism. Support, not assessment.
What you might be dealing with
Whether you have a diagnosis, are waiting for one, or have simply worked it out about yourself, the day to day of it is the same.
- Exhaustion from masking, and not knowing who you are without it
- Executive function that will not cooperate, however hard you try
- Feeling too much, too fast, and being told you are overreacting
- A lifetime of being called lazy, difficult, or too sensitive
- Burnout from running a brain in an environment built for a different one
- Grief, if the diagnosis came late and explained a great deal
- Rejection sensitivity that turns small things into large ones
You do not need to recognise all of these, or be able to explain why. Get in touch and we will work it out together.
What this is, and what it is not
We offer counselling support. We do not assess for, or diagnose, ADHD or autism.
If you are seeking a diagnosis, that route is through your GP or a specialist assessment service, and we can talk about it but cannot provide it. What we can offer is a place to work out how to live well as yourself, which for many people is the part nobody helps with.
- Affirming, not correcting: the aim is not to make you appear more neurotypical
- Unmasking safely: including working out where it is and is not safe to
- Self-understanding: making sense of a history that now reads differently
- Practical strain: work, study, relationships, and the systems you have to deal with
- No diagnosis required: self-identification is enough to work with us
Sessions that account for how you work
A therapy room can itself be a sensory and social demand. That is worth saying out loud rather than enduring.
Adjustments are normal here
Lighting, eye contact, fidgeting, sitting on the floor, needing a question repeated. None of it needs explaining or apologising for.
Online, across Kent
From your own space, with your own things, and without the journey or the waiting room. For many people this is the format that makes therapy possible at all.
Walking, outdoors
Side by side rather than face to face, with movement available. Outdoor sessions in Canterbury can be part of the work where they suit you.
Questions people ask
Practical answers about starting, what sessions are like, and what it costs.
Do you assess or diagnose ADHD and autism?
Can I have counselling without a formal diagnosis?
What does neurodivergent-affirming counselling actually mean?
I find therapy rooms difficult. Can sessions be adjusted?
Somewhere you do not have to translate yourself
An initial conversation is a chance to see whether this feels like a place you could be understood.