Understanding & Working With Autistic Clients in Therapy
An in-depth training for therapists and helping professionals
who want to better understand autistic adults, recognise how autism
may shape a client’s experience, and adapt therapeutic work with
greater awareness, respect, and clinical sensitivity.
Therapeutic Process
Communication
Neurodiversity-Affirming
Autistic adults may enter therapy with communication patterns,
sensory needs, emotional experiences, or behavioural differences
that are easily misunderstood when autism is not recognised or understood.
Many Therapists Will Work With Autistic Clients — Sometimes Without Knowing It
Autism is more common than many people realise, and a significant
number of autistic adults remain undiagnosed or unidentified.
This means therapists and counsellors may already be working
with autistic clients without recognising how autism may be
influencing the client’s experiences, communication, behaviour,
distress, and response to therapy.
When autism is poorly understood, therapy can become confusing,
progress can stall, and well-intentioned interventions may fail
to fit the client’s way of experiencing the world.
Learn About Autism From an Autistic Therapist
Dan Jones brings together more than 20 years of professional
therapeutic experience with his own lived autistic experience,
offering insight into both what therapists may observe externally
and what may be happening internally for the autistic client.
From Recognition to Better Therapeutic Fit
Explore behaviours, communication patterns, challenges,
strengths, and experiences that may suggest autism is relevant
to the client’s presentation.
Gain insight into what may be happening internally
during difficult, confusing, overwhelming, or emotionally
intense moments.
Explore how autistic traits and needs may influence
communication, therapeutic expectations, emotional processing,
and engagement in therapy.
Learn ways therapists can adjust how they communicate,
structure sessions, and respond to client needs more effectively.
Understand Why Therapy Can Feel Different for Autistic Clients
The course explores how autism may influence the problems
clients bring to therapy as well as the therapeutic process itself.
Communication Differences
Understand how communication style may influence what the therapist sees and how the client responds.
Internal Experience
Gain greater insight into experiences that may not be obvious from external behaviour alone.
Therapeutic Fit
Recognise when therapy may need thoughtful adjustment rather than assuming the client is resistant or disengaged.
Build a More Autism-Informed Therapeutic Perspective
This Course Is Not About “Treating” or Curing Autism
Autism is not an illness to be cured. The course does not teach
therapy techniques for removing autism. Its focus is on
understanding autistic clients more accurately
and supporting them in ways that respect neurodiversity,
individual needs, and therapeutic goals.
Working With Autistic Adults
Although the instructor has worked across age groups,
the central emphasis of this training is understanding
and working with autistic adults in therapy.
Dan Jones
An autistic psychological therapist with more than 20 years
of professional experience supporting autistic adults,
children, teenagers, families, and individuals across
a wide range of settings.
Printable Certificate of Completion
A printable certificate of completion is included and issued by
Sussex Hypnotherapy Centre for Continued Professional Development.
For Professionals Likely to Encounter Autistic Clients
Particularly relevant for therapists who want greater confidence
recognising autism and adapting their work with diagnosed
or undiagnosed autistic adults.
Better Understand the Autistic Client Behind the Therapy
Explore autistic traits, lived experience, communication,
therapeutic impact, adult autism, and practical ways
to make therapy more responsive to autistic clients.
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