A Three-Day Advanced Clinical Training
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Dates: Sunday 10th -Tuesday 12th May 2026
Times: 9.00am(BST) start until 3.00pm(BST) each day.
Alternative Dates and Timings: Please click links as timings may vary Friday 25th – Sunday 27th September
Location: Online
Trainer: Justyna Kulczyk-Lewinska Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Guest Speaker: Ruth Daly Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Cost: £219 if booked by 10th March 2026,
£239 if booked by 10th April 2026,
£259 Full Price
We now offer insurance against cancellation. This must be purchased within 48 hours of booking the workshop. Click here for more info
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR
This training is designed for experienced clinicians working with neurodivergent adults, including:
- Psychotherapists and counsellors
- Sex and relationship therapists
- Clinical and counselling psychologists
- Senior clinicians working in mental health or relational contexts
DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE OF NEURODIVERSITY TO JOIN?
- Participants should already have some experience working with neurodivergent clients and be seeking an advanced, integrative training, rather than an introductory overview.
- Here are some questions for you to self assesment your suitability to attend the Advanced Training: www.therapyandcounselling.co.
uk/self-assessment- neurodiversity-knowledge - Clinicians who are unsure whether the Advanced Training is appropriate for their current level of experience are strongly encouraged to attend the Neurodivergence, Sex, and Relationships 1 Day Training, prior to joining. (NB there will be other dates available on this page)
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ABOUT THE TRAINING
This advanced three-day clinical training offers a comprehensive neurodivergent-affirming framework for working with neurodivergent adults across psychological, relational, and psychosexual contexts.
The training is designed for clinicians who already have foundational knowledge of neurodiversity and are seeking to deepen their clinical understanding of neurological functioning, cognitive-emotional processes, and relational and intimate life. (See below on suitability to attend this workshop)
Drawing on neurodiversity-informed clinical literature, relational psychology, and established therapeutic frameworks, the training moves beyond deficit-based and hierarchical models. It supports clinicians to work with neurodivergent experience as shaped by brain structure, nervous systems, environments, power, and relational context.
The training offers an in-depth clinical space for developing thoughtful, flexible, and relational ways of working with neurodivergent presentations.
TRAINER: Justyna Kulczyk-Lewinska (she/her) is a highly qualified professional with a diverse and extensive background in psychology, pedagogy, and psychotherapy. Holding multiple certifications and advanced degrees, including an MA, BSc, PGDip Clinical Sexology, PGDip Relationship & Psychosexual Therapy, and PGDip Advanced Relationship Therapy, she is accredited by COSRT, registered with BACP, and a member of both BSSM and ESSM.
Justyna is autistic and ADHD, and lives with a long-term chronic condition. Most of her professional experience has been dedicated to working with neurodivergent clients. She is fully trained professional in neurodivergence diagnostics. She is deeply involved in research to reshape current perspectives on neurodivergence, collaborating with several universities across Europe. Her passion for this field has spanned 17 years. Her hands-on experience includes working in NHS settings, particularly in psychosexual departments as well as psychiatry, urology, and gynaecology. She has developed a tailored approach to working with autism and ADHD traits, viewing each case as unique and avoiding overgeneralised models.
Justyna has been working as a therapist since 2010, beginning her professional journey in prisons and psychiatry departments, where she gained invaluable experience before transitioning into the field of psychosexual psychotherapy. Her practice is affirming and inclusive, celebrating diversity across gender, relationship, and sexual diversity (GSRD), neurodivergence, and kink communities. Justyna runs a thriving private practice both online and in London, offering accessible and flexible therapeutic support to a diverse client base.
Trainer: Ruth Daly
Ruth is a Sex and Relationship Therapist and clinical supervisor with experience in neurodivergence, Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) and trauma focused therapeutic work. Ruth’s practice is informed by an embodied and relational style that makes space for the subtleties of human experience. They bring an anti-oppressive awareness to their work, paying attention to culture, context and the stories that often remain unspoken.
Ruth contributes to the wider field through writing and specialist training, and holds advanced accreditation with Pink Therapy. They present at national conferences, including ATSAC, and their written work supports ongoing developments in therapeutic and supervisory practice. Their facilitation invites curiosity, reflection and thoughtful engagement with the emotional landscapes clients and therapists move through. Ruth also provides consultancy for organisations and charities, supporting teams to develop neurodivergence informed practice, deepen their GSRD awareness and strengthen their trauma responsive work.
LEARNING INTENTIONS
The training supports participants to:
- Work confidently within a neurodivergent-affirming clinical framework that integrates neurological, cognitive, emotional, relational, and psychosexual perspectives.
- Develop a nuanced understanding of how neurodivergent brain structure and neurological functioning shape emotional experience, cognition, regulation, and relational patterns.
- Recognise how adaptations to systems, expectations, and environments become embedded in identity, communication, and intimacy over time.
- Hold complexity around change, including masking, burnout, capacity, and shifts across the lifespan.
- Adapt therapeutic interventions to support safety, agency, and relational trust without imposing neuronormative assumptions.
- Work ethically and confidently with neurodivergent intimacy, sexuality, and relational structures across diverse neurotypes.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
DAY 1 Relational Contexts, Systems, and Adaptation
This day examines how neurodivergent experience unfolds within relationships, social systems, and power structures.
- The neurodiversity paradigm and its movement from deficit to difference
- The double empathy problem and mutual misattunement
- Masking as a cultural survival strategy shaped by surveillance and punishment
- Partial masking, ambiguity, and relational trust
- Internalised ableism, shame, and therapeutic repair
- Object permanence, attachment, and relational continuity
- Body doubling and co-regulation as relational processes
- Intersectionality and how race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture compound neurodivergent
DAY 2 Neurodivergent neurological functioning, Nervous Systems, and Emotional–Cognitive Experience
This day focuses on intra-personal neurodivergent experience, grounding clinical work in brain structure, nervous systems, and emotional–cognitive processing.
- Neurodivergent neurological functioning within relational and environmental contexts
- Nervous system regulation profiles and stress responses
- Executive functioning, attention, time perception, and capacity
- Emotional processing, alexithymia, and interoception
- Rejection sensitivity and threat detection
- Neurodivergent burnout as nervous system collapse rather than failure
- Clinical implications for formulation, pacing, and therapeutic safety
DAY 3 Intimacy, Sexuality, and Sensory Worlds
This day brings intimacy, embodiment, and erotic life into the clinical frame.
- Consent models adapted for differing communication styles and nervous systems
- Sensory attunement and negotiating sensory needs within intimacy
- Erotic imagination and intimacy beyond standard relational scripts
- Hyperfocus, sexuality, and special interests
- Aftercare, regulation, and differing needs for closeness and withdrawal
- Queer, kink, and non-traditional relational structures
Maximum Number: 30
Approved for CPD: A Certificate of Attendance form for Continuous Professional Development for 6 hours will be sent by email once you have filled in the feedback form.
Our expectation is that you will attend this workshop for the full length of the course, have your video on, your mobile off, and fully participate.
- There are some online talks on zoom that allow you to come and go, or to choose not to participate in the exercise and breakout rooms. This culture has started to creep into our workshops. We have even had people say they want to leave to go and pick up children from school or walk their dog! People dropping in and out is very disruptive – especially when there may be group exercises that are planned for the same group to participate in a number of times.
- Because of this, we want to be clear about our expectations. This workshop has been planned with the assumption that you, and everyone else, will attend for the full time.
- So please be clear, that if you book on this workshop, we expect you to attend for the whole time, to participate in the breakout rooms and exercises and have your video switched on.
- Please also put your mobile to one side and on silent – checking your phone or texting will mean that you miss material. So we request that you only check your phone during breaks.
Therapists Insurance: By booking on this workshop you confirm that you have sufficient insurance to offer therapy to the public. (We are required by the NCIP, who accredit this workshop, to ask you to confirm this). If there is any discrepancy please let us know by contacting jonstow.cyh@gmail.com
Cancellations: Any request to change (eg defer to alternative dates) or cancel your place at a workshop, that is made at less than 21 days before the course start date will be charged in full. Any cancellation / amendments / requests to defer before 21 days, will be subject to a 12.5% handling charge.
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