The word neurodiversity has travelled quickly. Once rooted in activist and academic spaces, it is now widely used across workplaces, universities, social media, and healthcare. It is often offered with good intentions — signalling inclusion, openness, and respect for difference. Yet for many autistic people, and people with ADHD or dyslexia, this language evokes mixed responses. In therapy, those mixed feelings matter.

Working therapeutically with Neurodivergent Individuals

"It wasn’t until the second year of my undergraduate studies that I discovered I was dyslexic. "

From a neurodivergence perspective, dyslexia is viewed as a variation in cognitive functioning rather than a deficit or disorder.