Practitioners supporting neurodivergent clients

Finding out your child thinks and experiences the world differently can bring up a whole mix of feelings at once. Relief, grief, love, exhaustion, protectiveness, and a pressing need to understand. This article is for parents in that early stretch, trying to make sense of what's happening and what comes next.

For many neurodivergent children and adults, the long summer holiday is not the carefree stretch that the cultural imagination suggests. Six weeks of disrupted routine, changed sensory environments, unstructured days, and heightened demands can be genuinely difficult to navigate. This article is for the families who know exactly what that looks like, and are looking for ways to make it more manageable.

For many neurodivergent people, looking fine and being fine are two entirely different things. Masking is the process of suppressing, hiding, or performing over natural neurodivergent traits to appear more neurotypical. It can be so habitual that people do it without realising. And it costs far more than it looks like from the outside.