Psychological support
Adults on the autism spectrum
How I can support you:
- Help you understand how you process the world and information.
- Connect with your emotional, intellectual, physical, sensory, social, existential and other needs, and learn to respect them.
- Understand the roots of your exhaustion, doubts, fears and/or anxiety.
- Identify the parts of yourself you have lost touch with or no longer trust, so you can reconnect with yourself.
- Learn to communicate and relate to others in a way that helps you feel good about yourself.
- Learn to live in the world in a more authentic, present way, aligned with who you truly are.
- Understand and heal from trauma or difficult experiences that still affect you.
Whether or not you have a formal diagnosis, if you identify with the autism spectrum, this is a space where you can open up and show yourself as you are.
You may feel that living in this world is a constant struggle, that you cannot find your place or that something is wrong with you because you do not fit in. It is understandable to feel this way after becoming lost among so many demands, beliefs, pressures and disconnection.
To live fully in this world, reconnecting with yourself is essential: noticing what you need, what you are not attending to, and freeing yourself from beliefs that have weighed you down. Once you connect with yourself, you will connect with the world.
I support you in turning your focus back towards yourself, understanding and respecting yourself, and finding ways to care for yourself and enjoy life.
Family support
Guidance for parents
How I can support you:
- Understand how your child perceives and processes information, and connect with their emotional, sensory, cognitive and physical needs.
- Support you in understanding your emotional process (doubts, fears, concerns...) regarding your child’s diagnosis or possible diagnosis, and help you feel empowered as a parent.
- Guide and support you in building a bond with your child based on understanding, connection and respect for their abilities and way of perceiving the world.
- Help you understand your child’s crises or sensory and emotional overload, and learn to respond with empathy and co-regulation.
- Focus on creating moments of fun, calm and connection with your child, and understand why these experiences matter for their development and wellbeing.
When a child receives an autism diagnosis, the emotional process experienced by the whole family is often overlooked. Everything centres on the child receiving the necessary therapies, while a fundamental part is forgotten: how the family is doing.
Many parents of autistic children feel completely lost, in great emotional pain and unsure how to connect with their children. Yet what an autistic child needs most is connection: to feel that the world is safe and that they can be themselves, express themselves and enjoy life.
A loving family environment with genuine connection is essential for a child to feel secure and experience their emotions in a healthy way. This is why I strongly encourage parents to receive psychological support, because, without realising it, they will pass their fears, concerns and beliefs on to their children.
Parents need to be able to express everything they feel, to feel understood and validated, and to discover other ways of experiencing their relationship and connection with their child. This closeness between parents and children opens the door to a family life in which every member values themselves and others, and makes it possible to enjoy everything life together has to offer.
