Online Psychotherapy, Counselling, and Coaching for Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD Adults.
Active, identity-based and relational professional meetings, grounded inside neurodivergent experience rather than observing from a neuronormative distance.
A place to bring what is painful, stuck, changing or unfinished, and to think seriously about what a more viable, integrated and fulfilling life might require.
Vauna Beauvais, MSc. Adults | UKCP-registered psychotherapist and Certified Transactional Analyst. Adults | More than 25 years’ clinical experience.
What has brought you here?
“What has become important enough to bring you to therapy?”
You may arrive with a clearly defined circumstances, or that several parts of life that have become entangled, or the recognition that something can no longer continue as it is or should be better.
There may be pain, conflict, loss, exhaustion or uncertainty. A relationship may be changing. Work may have become impossible, consuming or strangely empty. An old way of managing may no longer be sufficient. You may be reconsidering your identity, your history, your ambitions or the conditions under which you are prepared to live.
Perhaps being autistic, an ADHD-er or AuDHD is central to what is happening. Perhaps it is one significant context among many. You may have engaged in formal diagnosis, or identified yourself later in life, or be exploring questions for which you do not yet have settled language.
You do not need to arrive with a complete explanation.
The work is shaped by what you bring: what hurts, why it matters, who and what it affects, what has kept it unresolved, and what would need to become possible instead.
The Work Between Us
An active and relational form of psychotherapy
This is not therapy conducted from a distant professional position in which you are observed, interpreted and returned to yourself as a collection of symptoms or conditions. We meet as two adults, with different responsibilities within the relationship, giving sustained attention to your experience and to what may be possible through working together.
Sessions are conversational, thoughtful and engaged. I listen closely, clarify what I think I am hearing, offer perspectives, notice connections and question meanings that may have become fixed. I am interested in what is said, what is difficult to say, what is happening between us and what becomes thinkable when an experience is approached differently.
The work may involve psychological depth, present-day realities, practical consequences and the wider conditions of your life. Identity, embodiment, relationships, history, work, culture, power and material circumstances can all matter. Distress is not automatically abstracted from the world in which it developed.
Existing responses and adaptations are approached with curiosity. We can consider what they have made possible, what they have protected, what they now cost, and whether they still belong in the life you are constructing.
There is no predetermined therapeutic route. As I come to understand you and what is at stake, I begin to see where I may be useful—as a psychotherapist, thinker, witness, challenger and collaborator in the work.
Therapy from Within Neurodivergent Experience
Neurodivergence is not an outside specialsm. I am autistic and ADHD (I am AuDHD, you might say). My work is informed by lived experience as well as extensive clinical practice, formal study, professional dialogue and continuing engagement with autistic, ADHD and AuDHD knowledge.
That does not mean presuming that another neurodivergent person experiences the world as I do.
It does mean that autism, ADHD and AuDHD are not approached only through descriptions created from the outside. Their relevance can be considered from within lived, relational, bodily, Political, cultural, somatic, and social experience.
This can matter when reconsidering a life previously understood through incomplete or unsuitable explanations. It can also matter when neurodivergence is already well understood but questions remain about how that understanding is integrated into relationships, decisions, work, creativity, intimacy, protection, responsibility, thriving, and the future.
Therapy may support a continuing process of becoming more fully acquainted with yourself not for its own sake, but because its essential for an aligned life. Thinking of this pursuit, not as a separate exercise in self-knowledge, but as something that can alter how you inhabit your life, and how life is with you.
What The Work May Involve
What May Enter The Room:
People bring the whole range of human experience to therapy. Areas we may explore include:
Identity, self-understanding and the integration of later discoveries.
Relationships, intimacy, belonging, separation and conflict.
Trauma, protection, vulnerability and the continuing effects of earlier experience.
Masking, exhaustion, burnout and changes in capacity.
Anxiety, depression, grief, anger, shame or emotional pain.
Work, professional identity, leadership, creativity and ambition.
Choices about disclosure and diagnosis,
Boundaries or significant life changes.
The relationship between aspiration, obligation, energy and sustainability.
Ways of living that once made sense but no longer provide enough room to become who you are becoming.
These are possibilities, not a programme. What matters is what is significant in your life and what our attention to it makes available.
Who I work With
Is This Practice Likely To Be Suitable?
I work online with individual adults aged 18 and over.
My practice is particularly for autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults, including people who could be any of the following:
Are newly identified, have known since childhood or are revisiting the meaning of neurodivergence at a different stage of life.
Have recognised themselves as neurodivergent without pursuing formal diagnosis.
Are questioning whether autism, ADHD or AuDHD may be relevant to their experience.
Want psychotherapy in which neurodivergence can be understood as one part of a complex whole person.
Want to translate neurodivergent self-understanding into meaningful and personally relevant wellbeing.
Are seeking a therapist with substantial professional experience and lived neurodivergent knowledge.
You do not need a formal autism or ADHD diagnosis to work with me.
I do not provide autism or ADHD diagnostic assessments.
I do not work with couples, families, children or adolescents, and my practice is not an emergency or crisis service.
Sessions take place through online video, with cameras on during our active session time.
Ways Of Working Together
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy offers sustained space for understanding and working with emotional pain, relationships, identity, trauma, recurring patterns, life transitions and questions about how you want to live.
The distinction between counselling and psychotherapy is not always clear-cut in practice. We will consider the depth, focus and duration of the work in relation to what you bring, rather than requiring you to select the correct label in advance.
Read about Psychotherapy
See Fees and Booking
Coaching
Coaching can provide a focused collaborative space for decisions, projects, professional life, relationships, responsibilities, aspirations or change.
It is suitable where the primary work concerns direction, action, choices and the creation of workable approaches, rather than a need for psychotherapy.
Where the boundary between coaching and psychotherapy becomes important, we will discuss it explicitly.
Read about Coaching
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Therapy For TA Trainees
Personal Psychotherapy for Transactional Analysis Trainees
As a Certified Transactional Analyst in psychotherapy, I offer online personal psychotherapy to Transactional Analysis trainees and qualified Transactional Analysts.
A concessionary fee for a 60-minute session is available to TA trainees. You may have to provide evidence of being in a training contract with a recognised TA training institute. See Terms for more details
Read about personal therapy if you are in TA training
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Vauna Beauvais
I have worked as a psychotherapist and counsellor for more than 25 years.
My professional grounding includes:
UKCP registration.
Certified Transactional Analyst in psychotherapy, CTA(P).
Master’s degree in Psychotherapy.
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling.
Postgraduate Certificate in Autism.
Certified Cybertherapist.
Training in coaching and a range of psychotherapeutic approaches.
Alongside clinical practice, I write, teach and speak about neurodivergent lives and about psychotherapy with autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults.
My work is informed by continuing study, autistic and neurodivergent scholarship, community knowledge, professional dialogue and the questions that emerge through practice.
I am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist (number 06158135) and abide by the UKCP professional standards required.
Values and Professional Context
A Person Is Never Only ‘An Individual Psychology’.
Psychological experience develops within relationships, families, institutions, communities, cultures and material conditions.
My practice attends to the effects of disability, neurotype, gender, sexuality, race, class, age, health, power and other parts of a person’s social location where these are relevant.
This is LGBTQIA+-affirming, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice. These commitments do not replace curiosity about the particular person in front of me. They require it.
Read the Equity, Diversity and Anti-Discriminatory Practice Policy
Writing, Videos and Public Work
Explore My Thinking Before You Enquire
EXPLORE MY THINKING BEFORE YOU ENQUIRE
My blog, videos, presentation recordings, worksheets, articles, and comics offer a fuller sense of how I think about psychotherapy, autistic and AuDHD identity, relationships, masking, motivation, protection, work, rejection sensitivity, fluctuating capacity and the construction of a viable life.
Public materials are educational and reflective rather than individual therapy, but they may help you decide whether my ideas and way of approaching experience are of interest to you.
Session Fees And Booking
Sessions are provided online through WriteUpp.
Standard psychotherapy, counselling or coaching session: 60 minutes £145
Discovery call: Up to 20 minutes £25
TA trainee psychotherapy: 60 minutes £99 concessionary rate
Appointments are available on weekdays during the daytime and evening. Current availability is shown through the booking calendar after an appropriate booking link has been issued.
Please read the Fees and Booking page, FAQs and Terms of Service before making an enquiry.
The Next Step
If the way I work interests you, begin by reading the information about fees, suitability and booking.
You can then send a brief enquiry explaining what kind of service you are considering and what has led you to look for support now. You do not need to send a detailed personal history at this stage.
