I find working with Adults and Children who have either been diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum Disorder, or may suspect that they are on this spectrum, a constant learning experience. The saying that when you have met one person with ASD you have met one person with ASD is reinforced with every new client I work with. I meet many people who suspect that they are "on the spectrum" but have not been diagnosed. I should point out that I am not qualified to make that diagnosis, but I have trained to work with people who have this unique and special difference in how their brains work. I have worked with people who have hyper sensitivity to certain foods, sounds, textures or social environments. A lot of the work I do is to find what makes a person feel unsafe, or what triggers a reaction that they find unhelpful. This could be anything that causes them to feel anxious or angry .  Understanding this may lead to realising why they behave in a certain way.  Once we have learned as much as we can, we start to work on how to either manage or reduce this reaction or behaviour.  Working with people with ASD, requires an understanding that behavioural triggers could be from any of their senses. These reactions can be either a Hyper reaction which is like an over reaction or a Hypo reaction which is like an under reaction.

In most cases the work I do with clients is a combination of looking at what us happening in the present along with what has happened to them in the past. This allows us to build an understanding of their behavioural responses and how to develop new ways of thinking and reacting .