Work with Education Settings
I really enjoy working with education settings, supporting them to work towards creating the structural and systemic changes needed to provide better quality teaching, learning and social experiences to autistic and ADHD young people.
I offer the following services:
I have spent the last decade working in specialist education settings across key stages and into further education. During this time, I have worked in both clinical and clinical management roles, integrated into these settings and have worked closely with educational senior leadership teams to foster therapeutic environments.
I have a good understanding of Education, Health and Care Plans, plus the Ofsted framework and school governance processes.
I feel passionately about supporting education settings to work closely with their learners and their families to co-create and shift ableist outcomes and structures, enabling them to flourish in education, wherever possible.
Now taking bookings for 2025-2026 inset and twilight training sessions.
Get in touch with me to discuss your settings training needs.
Examples of previous training
Consultancy with Education Settings
My consultancy work with education settings, at its core, strives to bring neurodiversity-affirming approaches into the school system and environment, including the curriculum, through developing staff knowledge and skillset of how to enable learning and social safety for autistic and ADHD young people through evidence-based research and lived-experience feedback.
This includes:
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work to support Relationships and Sex Education in the education environment. You can read more on this by clicking here
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working with SENCOs and their teams to review EHCP processes, including goal settings aligned with autistic and ADHD identities
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establishing staff training matrices to ensure autism and ADHD affirming training is available to all school/college staff
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delivery of neurodiversity-affirming autism and ADHD, trauma informed training.
Each settings needs will differ, meaning consultancy work is approached on an individual basis and is achieved through a collaborative approach, which includes students and their families.
Get in touch with me to discuss your setting. I'd love to chat.
A collaborative space to explore your role, challenges, and values as a SENCO, with a neurodiversity-affirming lens.
Whether you're navigating complex team dynamics, wrestling with system constraints, advocating for a child with high support needs, or seeking clarity around your leadership identity—this space is here to meet you where you are.
Together, we’ll think through your experiences, questions, and the bigger picture. That might include unpacking tensions in practice, making sense of your emotional responses, exploring how ableism, neurodivergence, and institutional structures show up in your role—and developing strategies for creating more therapeutic, relational, and regulation-supportive environments across school.
There’s no expectation to ‘get it right.’ Just an open, reflective space for curiosity, compassion, and shared thinking—where your values and experiences can lead the way.
These sessions are online, flexible, and welcoming of different processing styles. You’re free to pause, take notes, ask for structure, use the chat, stim, fidget, or keep your camera off. This is a space where you get to take up space too.
What’s included:
Format:
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90-minute online session via Zoom
Cost:
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From £120 per session
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(Available as a one-off space or as part of a series)
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If cost is a barrier, I use the Green Bottle Sliding Scale Method—drop me an email if you'd like to talk this through.
Optional:
A short written reflection can be shared after the session to support ongoing thinking. These are notes with you, not about you—please see Heidi Health’s ‘patient explainer’ for more on how we work collaboratively with documentation.
SENCO Co-Thinking Spaces