How Can I Help You: Who I Help

Who I Help

Trauma Survivors & Autistic Adults

My clients are mostly either trauma survivors – typically childhood, military, family or sexual trauma – or they are adults who live with symptoms of autism. Indeed, many people arrive in my office with symptoms of both neurodiversity and trauma.

Symptoms I See Regularly

Traumatised and autistic people typically display a similar range of symptomatic behaviours:

  • General and social anxiety
  • Poor anger management
  • Relationship challenges
  • Panic attacks
  • Procrastination
  • Thinking too much
  • Catastrophising
  • Hypervigilance
  • Poor sleep
  • Substance abuse
Clinical Foundation

The Body Keeps the Score

These symptoms will recur until the underlying emotional response to the trauma is named, managed and processed.

The foundation of all my clinical thinking is a book called The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. For people with autism, just living in the world can easily be traumatic.