Workshop Themes & Dates

1. Understanding ADHD – From Evidence to Insight

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Build a clear, evidence-based understanding of ADHD—its neurobiological roots, diagnostic process, and common co-occurring conditions.

Bust myths, tackle stigma, and explore how ADHD can be disguised as anxiety, burnout, or low self-esteem.

Interactive discussions and case studies will ensure you leave confident in what ADHD is—and what it’s not.

2. ADHD in Daily Life – Impacts & Coping Strategies

Tuesday 25th November 2025

Explore how ADHD shows up in everyday life — at home, at work, in relationships, and in moments of overwhelm, avoidance, or emotional intensity.

This workshop focuses on the lived experience of ADHD and the real-world challenges clients face, including time-blindness, inconsistent focus, overwhelm, shutdown, and shame cycles.

You’ll learn practical, client-centred coping strategies you can introduce in therapy: time tools, environmental supports, emotional micro-regulation, getting-started techniques, and ways to reduce overwhelm and avoidance.

Through pairwork, group exercises, role-play demonstrations, and reflective activities, you’ll build a toolkit of effective supports that help clients navigate daily tasks with more confidence and self-compassion.

3. Executive Function, Rejection Sensitivity & Communication Skills

Friday 20th February 2026

Go deeper into the emotional and cognitive processes that shape ADHD behaviour.

In this workshop we explore the core executive function difficulties behind inconsistency, overwhelm, task initiation struggles, and emotional responses.

We also look at Rejection Sensitivity (RSD) and how it affects communication, confidence, and relational safety.

Through interactive practice, demonstrations, and real-world scenarios, you’ll learn communication tools, micro-interventions, and therapeutic responses that support clients in staying regulated, expressing needs, and repairing ruptures.

A highly practical and experiential day that equips you with tools you can use immediately in the therapy room.

4. Emotional Regulation & Building Healthy Relationships

Tuesday 14th April 2026

This workshop focuses on the deeper emotional landscape of ADHD — including emotional intensity, overwhelm, shutdown, shame, and the nervous system responses behind them.

You’ll learn grounding techniques, somatic strategies, and practical tools to help clients regulate in and out of sessions.

We also explore how ADHD interacts with attachment, relationships, and intimacy, including common patterns, misattunements, and communication ruptures.

Through role-play, guided exercises, and lived-experience discussion, you’ll build confidence in supporting clients to create safer, stronger, and more connected relationships.

5. Overcoming Procrastination & Planning for the Future

Friday 29th May 2026

Help clients understand the emotional and neurological roots of procrastination, including overwhelm, time-blindness, freeze responses, and shame-driven avoidance.

Learn practical, ADHD-friendly activation tools, task initiation supports, and time management strategies that actually work for ADHD brains.

Through role-play, planning exercises, and reflective activities, you’ll explore ways to help clients set compassionate, realistic goals and build sustainable future plans they can genuinely follow through on.

6. Understanding ADHD, Autism & AuDHD — Differences, Overlaps & Clinical Insights

Date TBC July

Gain a clear, research-informed understanding of ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD (dual diagnosis).

This workshop explores the key differences, overlaps, and shared traits across neurotypes, helping counsellors recognise what each presentation can look like in the therapy room.

We’ll cover sensory profiles, communication styles, executive functioning patterns, masking and burnout, and why AuDHD is often misunderstood or missed in assessment processes.

Through case examples, small-group work, and reflective exercises, you’ll learn how to differentiate presentations, avoid common misinterpretations, and adapt your therapeutic approach to support clients with mixed neurotypes safely and effectively.

7. Foundations of Neurodivergence — Key Concepts for Counsellors

Date TBC September

Develop a solid grounding in the neurodiversity paradigm and the core neurotypes you’re likely to encounter in practice, including ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette’s, PDA, and sensory processing differences.

This workshop introduces strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming therapy principles, exploring how communication styles, masking, sensory needs, and lived experience vary across neurotypes.

You’ll learn how to create ND-inclusive therapy spaces, adapt your therapeutic approach, and build safer, more validating relationships with neurodivergent clients.

A practical, accessible introduction to working confidently within the neurodiversity paradigm.

2026-2027 Dates TBC

1. Understanding ADHD – From Evidence to Insight

→ September 2026

2. ADHD in Daily Life – Impacts & Coping Strategies

→ October 2026

3. Executive Function, Rejection Sensitivity & Communication Skills

→ November 2026

4. Emotional Regulation & Building Healthy Relationships

→ January 2027

5. Overcoming Procrastination & Planning for the Future

→ February 2027

6. Understanding ADHD, Autism & AuDHD — Differences, Overlaps & Clinical Insights

→ April 2027

7. Foundations of Neurodivergence — Key Concepts for Counsellors

→ May 2027