Your Trainers
Listen to trainers introduce themselves in this video
Last February we ran the Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Autistic Adults. This video clip was recorded then and shows the start of the course introduction on the first day.
Click to play and you’ll hear Eoin introduce himself, followed by a few words about staying safe in the group, and finally, Vauna introduces herself.
Hearing us speak may give you more of a feel of what we are like.
MSc Psychotherapy, Post Gragraduate Certificate Autism, Certified Transactional Analyst, Certified Cybertherapist, PGCDip Counselling. UKCP registered Psychotherapist.
Vauna is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist specialising in working with neurodivergent adults. She has been seeing clients for 25 years in private practice. She is also a clinical supervisor for counsellors and psychotherapists who are seeing neurodivergent clients and for therapists who are autistic themselves.
Discovering at over 40 years old, that she is Autistic with ADHD herself, she turned her interest toward understanding the autistic experience and what that means for therapists, trainers, supervisors and for autistic clients.
Areas of interest, in addition to mental health, have included performance and executive functioning, and she has developed a neuroaffirming approach to coaching for people with ADHD. She studied Autism at Sheffield Hallam University with Dr Luke Beardon.
She is a qualified Coach and Trainer, a Certified Transactional Analyst, and a Certified Cybertherapist. She gained the CIPD accredited ‘Certificate in Training Practice’ in 2008.
Currently, Vauna, along with Eoin, enjoy making their (mostly weekly) podcast, ‘Autistically Speaking’.
BA Psychology, Dip Counselling, MA Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling, MIACP, MACI.
Eoin is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Trainer who has worked in the areas of Disability, Addiction Treatment, Lecturing/Training, and Counselling/Psychotherapy private practice for over 30 years, using a Humanistic, Pragmatic approach to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (integrating aspects of Person-Centred Therapy, Schema Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, & Compassion-Focused Therapy).
He specialised in the area of Sexual Addiction for a number of years (serving as chair of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity).
Additionally, worked at a senior level in Counselling/Psychotherapy education, also serving as vice-chair of both the Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and Addiction Counsellors of Ireland.
His work is currently focused on understanding the problems faced by autistic adults, and their specific therapeutic needs.
He is autistic himself, having made the discovery in 2012. He enjoys Hiking and playing music.
Currently, Eoin, along with Vauna, enjoys making their podcast, ‘Autistically Speaking’.