On Demand Webinar - Supporting Autistic/ADHD Clients with Grief

On Demand Webinar - Supporting Autistic/ADHD Clients with Grief

This is a 2 hour recording of our recently held live webinar you can purchase to have 3 months access to the video and lifetime access to the materials.

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Neurodivergence and Grief: Supporting Autistic/ADHD Clients in Navigating Loss

Liam Spicer & Monique Mitchelson

In this two-hour webinar you will learn about how to support autistic and ADHD clients with grief. The training will cover the key theories, concepts, ways which grief may present differently in ND clients, and importantly how to support ND clients with navigating loss in a way that makes sense to them. The webinar will also explore important areas such as non-death loss, grief around post-diagnosis and other life changes, and adapted therapies to use when the grief becomes prolonged or complex. It will also include a discussion of case examples.

Learning outcomes include:

• Defining grief, the different forms and its impact

• Models of grief

• Research on Neurodivergence and Grief

• Understanding different grief responses

• Busting neuronormative grief expectations

• Non-death loss, post-diagnosis grief, and pet loss

• Supporting Neurodivergent clients with grief

• Understanding prolonged/traumatic grief

• Therapies to use for prolonged grief including ND affirming EMDR and schema therapy, ACT, & CFT

Who is this training for?

Any health professionals who are working with neurodivergent clients who may experience grief in some form.

This training is ND affirming as it is delivered by two ND psychologists, is based on experiences and lives of ND clients, is based on the fundamental principles and values of the ND affirming paradigm and aims to promote greater understanding for clinicians to support their clients with the various forms of grief they may experience in life.

About the presenters:

Liam Spicer is a Psychologist, Academic and Researcher based in Tasmania, Australia. He is an EMDR Consultant and Training Facilitator, and works in private practice with children, adolescents, and adults. Liam is actively involved in both training and research in the areas of trauma, grief, suicide, alexithymia, neurodivergence, EMDR, and schema therapy. He recently contributed to the International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief, and has published in peer reviewed journal articles. His PHD at Curtin University, Perth is focuses on the use of Schema Therapy for Prolonged Grief. He has presented at various national conferences and events, and he currently holds a position at the University of Tasmania teaching clinical psychology skills to students.

Liam has a strong passion working in the neurodivergence space and works extensively with autistic and ADHD clients. Liam has worked in this area for over 10 years in various capacities, and is enthusiastic about education and skill development regarding neurodiversity affirming practice. Liam provides consultation to other practitioners on neurodiversity affirming trauma therapy, incorporating EMDR and schema therapy approaches.

Monique is an Autistic Clinical Psychologist working in private practice in Brisbane and works with adults in a clinic that specializes in neurodivergence. Monique has an interest in Neurodivergence particularly in women and girls and practices Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy. She hosts a podcast with Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr Michelle Livock called The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast where they share free quality psychological information on Neurodiversity in Girls and Women as well as interview Australian women about their lived experience of neurodiversity. The podcast is in the top 1% of podcasts on Spotify and has over 750,000 downloads.

Monique practices Neurodiversity Affirming therapy. Neurodiversity Affirming therapy aims to affirm the different neurotype of a neurodivergent person, rather than seeing their neurotype as inherently "bad" or in need of fixing to become neurotypical. It aims for the person to explore their neurodivergent identity and find their own unique strengths. The Neurodiversity Affirming movement comes from the wider social disability movement and is an important therapeutic approach in working with neurodivergent clients. Monique incorporates CFT, ACT, EMDR and aspects of CBT in her practice.