Individual Consultancy – Your Individual Toolkit of Techniques
Work with Ruth to on Self Reflection to gain insight into your Skillset and Strengths how to extend these. Self Awareness is the first step, then work on your skills in areas like: focusing your attention, knowing your Core Values, the dynamics of conversation, expressing yourself with empathy, noticing triggers which lead to overload.
If you are newly diagnosed then the Program will be adapted to include more background about the autistic condition as clients find this helpful. If you would like another family member to be present for this psrt of the program then this is possible.
Emotional Responses
You can choose to focus on your Emotional Repsonses when communicating or in a social situation. Ruth uses Acceptance and Commitment approach for support around emotions linked to communication stress,
Training
Ruth has a Masters in Training and brings in a training approach once the key areas in your Program are idenfified.
You will work through an introduction and background to your strategies and receive a powerpoint of your Individual Program.
Longer Term Support
We are in a world of short term solutions and that can be a good thing. However sometimes there is value in an ongoing supportive relationship with a practitioner who understands you and your communication style and needs.
Ruth can offer ongoing support if you choose this. It would be individually agreed and ad hoc or on an agreed schedule.
Values and Choice
Communicology for adults who are neurodiverse is about choice and working together with a therapist to reduce the impact of living in a world designed by neurotypical people. If people with autism had designed our society and its structures it would be a very different place. Having said that we all need to cope and thrive in the world of relationships and work.
Ruth at Communicology offers an individualized approach to supporting your Communication and the emotional stress and exhaustion which can result from communicating in that neurotypical world.
For Those on a Waiting Lsit for Diagnosis If you are seeking a diagnosis then you can still benefit from the package available as the focus is on your skillset and needs as a communicator and not the condition of autism. You can use the Individual Program when you are discussing diagnosis with other professionals. If you needed Ruth to be involved and liaising around the diagnostic process e.g. contributing a report then that would be costed individually.
The image below is from a research article about how Autistic adults’ view of their communication skills and needs by Clare Cummins, Elizabeth Pellicano and Laura Crane (July 2020) International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 55(33)
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