Empowering professionals to understand neurodiversity and support families in managing emotions and behaviours.

We bring over a decade of experience in training professionals across the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors.

Choose from bite-sized, half day or full-day courses, available over one or two days. We also specialize in creating bespoke courses tailored to meet the unique needs of your team.

Understanding and managing emotions and behaviours in ADHD and Autism

Who is this training for?

  • Social care

  • Education

  • Adoption agencies

  • Psychologists

  • Psychotherapists

  • Paediatricians

  • Family support workers

  • Residential care worker

What we will cover

This course provides an invaluable overview of the emotion coaching approach to managing emotions and behaviours in autism and ADHD.

  • Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in autism and ADHD.

  • Neuropsychological needs in autism and ADHD.

  • The neurodiverse emotion coaching approach for managing emotions and behaviour in autism and/or ADHD.

How the training is delivered

This training is available for up to 20 participants and can be offered as a full-day course, a condensed three-hour session, or two-hour bite-sized workshops to meet your needs. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

Understanding and managing emotions and behaviours in FASD

Who is this training for?

  • Social care workers

  • Education staff

  • Adoption agencies

  • Foster care agencies

  • Criminal Justice Teams

  • Paediatric services

  • Psychologists

  • Psychotherapists

  • Psychiatrists

  • CAMHS

  • Family support workers

  • Residential care workers

  • Drug and alcohol services

What we will cover

This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standards on FASD:

  • Statement 5: Children and young people with a diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have a management plan to address their needs.

  • Service providers have training programmes for healthcare professionals on managing FASD.

We’ll take you through the fundamentals of FASD and how the emotion coaching approach can transform the management of emotions and behavioural symptoms in FASD.

  • What is FASD? Causal factors, ten brain domains and UK prevalence.

  • Co-occuring conditions including ADHD and autism and attachment difficulties.

  • Facial features and diagnosis.

  • Why is FASD so hidden? Spiky profile, IQ versus executive functioning, dysmaturity.

  • Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in FASD.

  • The neurodiverse emotion coaching approach for managing emotions and behavioural symptoms in FASD.

  • Strategies for addressing neuropsychological needs in caregivers and children with FASD

How the training is delivered

This training is available for up to 20 participants and can be offered as a full-day course, a condensed three-hour session, or two-hour bite-sized workshops to meet your needs. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

Therapeutic parenting for FASD

Offering professionals working with families affected by FASD an opportunity to discover the emotion coaching approach to therapeutic parenting for FASD.

Traditional parenting and therapeutic techniques don’t work for FASD. This is ‘Olympic Level Parenting’ and it demands a different approach.

Who is this training for?

  • Social care workers

  • Education staff

  • Adoption agencies

  • Foster care agencies

  • Paediatric services

  • Psychologists

  • Psychotherapists

  • Psychiatrists

  • CAMHS

  • Family support workers

  • Residential care workers

What we will cover

This training employs examples from lived experience to demonstrate why traditional parenting and therapeutic approaches don’t work for FASD. We will train you in the the six step emotion coaching programme for therapeutic parenting, supporting you to help families with this evidenced-based approach to managing emotions and behavioural symptoms in FASD.

How the training is delivered

This training is available for up to 20 participants and can be offered as a full-day course or a condensed three hour session to meet your needs. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

ADHD and Autism Essentials

This is our two-hour bite-sized workshop covering all the essentials of ADHD, Autism and AuDHD and an overview of key management strategies.

Who is this training for?

Anyone working with families or who is interested in neurodiversity.

What we will cover

  • The key features of Autism and ADHD

  • Co-occuring conditions.

  • Optimising common strengths in autism and ADHD.

  • Strategies for neuropsychological needs in autism and/or ADHD. Pervasive drive for autonomy, demand avoidance and difficulties with mentalisation.

How the training is delivered

This two-hour bite sized workshop is available for up to 50 participants. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

FASD Essentials

This is our two-hour bite-sized workshop covering all the essentials of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder an overview of key management strategies. This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standard on FASD:

Service providers have training programmes for healthcare professionals on managing FASD.

Who is this training for?

Anyone working with families or who is interested in FASD

What we will cover

What is FASD? Causal factors, ten brain domains and UK prevalence.

  • Co-occuring conditions including ADHD and autism and attachment difficulties.

  • Facial features and diagnosis.

  • Why is FASD so hidden? Spiky profile, IQ versus executive functioning, dysmaturity.

  • Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in FASD.

  • Overview of key strategies for managing emotions and behavioural symptoms.

How the training is delivered

This two-hour bite sized workshop is available for up to 50 participants. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

What people are saying

  • “I am gaining knowledge that is specific to my child. This helps me to understand why she behaves as she does and what I can do to support her. It also makes me think about myself and what I need.”

  • “Anna has a lovely approach and her knowledge is vast! I’ve learnt great, helpful strategies. Excellent.”

  • "I've done a fair few parenting courses and this has been the best one. It's been brilliant. It validates you.”