30-mins. Live Event on Zoom. Subscribe here to receive the zoom link in your newsletter subscription confirmation email.

Tailored for counsellors and psychotherapists committed to working with autistic adults our talk this week explores aspects of energy management, self-regulation, and the significance of stimming in the lives of autistic people.

In clinical literature, stimming is often referred to as "self-stimulatory behaviors." Beyond being repetitive actions, these behaviors play a crucial role in self-regulation, helping individuals manage anxiety, improve focus, and much more. We'll delve into that this week.

Due to societal misconceptions about stimming, clients may have been discouraged from engaging in stimming. There has been a belief that stimming is distracting or inappropriate. And yet, a more nuanced understanding of how stimming functions as innate coping mechanisms is useful for autistic people, and for therapists to know about. Stimming has a role in self-regulation and providing sensory comfort for clients within the therapeutic space, too.

Vauna Beauvais and Eoin Stephens, both autistic and both therapists, continue with their weekly video series about being therapists working with neurodivergent clients and invite you to be present as they talk. This is free-to-attend and counts as 30 mins CPD (or 30 points of CPD) for counsellors and psychotherapists.