We place your or your child at the heart of our assessment process, always seeing you/ them in your/their wholeness and never through a deficit based lens. We see you or your child as the wisdom-holders of your/their experiences. We care deeply about being neuro-affirmative in our work with you or your family.

We recognise that expression and communication can happen in many ways: your child may be non-speaking, and yet they are communicating in so many rich and wonderful ways. We are committed to listening to your child’s experiences in a holistic way. We are committed to attuning to your way of communicating so that you feel ‘seen and heard’.

We hold evidence-based approaches as fundamental to our clinical practice. We are very grateful for the extensive research that has been carried out by our colleagues of standardising clinical assessments and how this shapes, guides and ensures that every person we meet experiences an assessment process that feels transparent, safe and grounded in a strong evidence-base.

Our adherence to the ethical standards of our professional membership bodies is paramount to us, so you and your child feel that you are being held within a framework that holds integrity, professionalism and clinical accountability as essential values.

We strive to work with you and/or your child so that you feel a part of the discovery process at all times, knowing what we are doing and why. We aim to support you and/or your child to feel at the heart of the discovery process and that the assessment is not being done to you/your child, but with you and/or your child. That you and/or your child feel that we are exploring the way your/their brain is wired and your/ their rich and unique ways of being in the world together.

We are committed to listening to the voices in the Autistic and otherwise Neuro-divergent community who are the essence of the neuro-affirming way of being for all. It is their voices, their direct experience, their suggestions for improvements, their teachings, their feedback, their wisdom, their lobbying that we are humbled by, and committed to attuning to. We acknowledge that this is a learning process for us, and that we might sometimes get it wrong, but that we always seek to repair, and grow.

We always aim to promote the acceptance of Autism, ADHD and other neuro-types and appreciate them for what they are: wonderful and essential to our human diversity. We aim to advance awareness of, and appreciate the diverse Autistic and ADHD culture that exists and is constantly growing. We deeply value and care about these ways of experiencing, connecting, thinking, sensing, perceiving, learning and communicating. We affirm all of our human community who identify as LGBTQIA+.

We aim to support those who experience challenges and obstacles in living in a world that has been primarily designed to accommodate just one neuro-type, rather than all of the richness of human diversity. We recognise that there is an huge hole in research into the neuro-divergent way of being and that the research community and funding bodies need to recognise this gap and authentically collaborate with Autistic or otherwise neuro-divergent researchers and listen to their calls for research into neuro-divergent strengths and culture and ways of supporting the community so they can thrive.