Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Team

Experienced Practitioners, Here For You

Neurodivergence can significantly impact how trauma is experienced and expressed. Neurodivergent people may have heightened sensory sensitivities, challenges with emotional regulation, difficulty trusting others, and unique communication styles—all of which can shape their trauma response. Trauma can also exacerbate these neurological differences, creating a complex interplay that requires specialised support.

NeuroTribe offers this specialised support through a tailored therapeutic approach. Our trauma-informed therapists (the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team) adapt their methods to better meet your needs, aiming to create an environment and process that feels predictable, comfortable and empowering for you as a neurodivergent individual. This may include:

  • Pacing therapy at a slower, more gradual tempo

  • Incorporating sensory tools and accommodations

  • Utilising visual aids, structured formats, and clear communication

  • Focusing heavily on building a safe, collaborative relationship

  • Exploring trauma through nontraditional modalities like art, music, or movement

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Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners

Ali Rabjohns

MBACP (Accred)

Special Interests: Neurodivergent Young People & Adults, Learning Disabilities, Adults Interested in Exploring Creativity, Shamanic Practice & Ancestral Knowledge

Ali is a BACP registered Transpersonal Arts Counsellor with an established practice in the shamanic arts. In therapy, her knowledge and respect for ancestral knowledge enables her to empower her clients to connect to their creativity and spirituality in an embodied way. This can be very helpful for clients who prefer nonverbal expression. Ali is equally adept with talking therapy.

Ali works with a wide range of children, young people, and adults, supporting them with their mental health and emotional well-being, using a transpersonal and person-centered approach. Ali teaches a 1-year shamanic practitioner training, as well as seeing clients for healing, in my sustainable eco-lodge in the Sussex Downs.

Zena Nicholas

MBACP

Special Interests: Diversity & Marginalisation, Neurodivergence, Third Culture Individuals & Immigrants' Experience

Zena is a BACP registered humanistic therapist. She has personal experience of navigating cultures and neurodivergence, and is passionate about offering a culturally integrated, neurodivergent-tailored, gender and sexuality-affirming practice. Zena supports clients with a wide range of life challenges and mental health struggles through talking therapy.

Zena also runs professional and personal support spaces for other therapists, and facilitates training on many topics, striving to ensure the experiences of marginalised and minoritised groups are recognised and reflected in training and practice.

Pip Patrick

MBACP

Special Interests: Autism, ADHD, Identity, Trauma, Attachment and Relationships

Pip is a BACP-registered integrative relational counsellor. She has previously worked in the NHS, supporting a diverse range of people struggling with problems including anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, identity issues, traumatic experiences in childhood and adulthood, work problems, health issues, pregnancy loss and neurodivergence.

Through her own lived experience of neurodivergence, Pip has learnt that marginalised identities can be sources of both challenge and strength and are fundamental to shaping us as the unique individuals we are. As she works with clients to create a deeper understanding of themselves and their troubles, Pip is committed to meeting all facets of their identity with compassion and respect.

Pip is a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and has a degree in integrative relational counselling.

Anjum Siddique

MBACP

Special Interests: Loneliness, Loss, (Hidden) Identity and Disability

Anjum is a BACP registered Integrative Relational Counsellor. She has worked within the NHS for many years. She has had personal experience of the challenges of living with a ‘hidden’ disability.

Anjum works with her clients to process the often suppressed, painful and overwhelming emotions of fear, guilt, anger, shame and sadness that connect us all with being truly human. She explores past experiences and patterns of behaviour with her clients in order to promote self-knowledge and look towards potential for change.

Anjum is a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and has a first class honours degree in integrative relational counselling.

Fariah Garner

MBACP

Special Interests: Identity, Trauma, Empowerment, Creative Therapy, and Multicultural Counselling

Fariah is a warm and inclusive integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. She has worked for both in the NHS and private agencies. For many years Fariah has worked in the public sector supporting people with mental health issues and valuing their individuality.

She has experience supporting clients struggling with trauma, grief, identity, PTSD, eating disorders, low self esteem, abuse, family issues, cultural and racial issues and more. She has experience in, and welcomes, neurodivergent clients and works creatively to engage with feelings that some clients find hard to articulate into words.

Fariah has a first class honours degree in Integrative Relational Counselling and is a registered member of the BACP.

Ellen Maslin

HCPC, BADth, EMDR Association UK

Special Interests: ADHD, Neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ Matters, Diversity & Marginalisation, PTSD, Self-Exploration, Creative Expression

Ellen is a creative arts psychotherapist, trained in the modality of drama and movement. Since 2020, Ellen has worked with people of all ages (from young children to older adults) to support a variety of needs. Ellen's approach is client-led and predominantly a talking therapy, which leans on creative tools for expression and exploration to help deepen the therapeutic process. Ellen's practice has included conducting, publishing, and presenting research in the areas of neurodiversity and the importance of culturally responsive dramatherapy. As a neurodiverse person herself, she is passionate about supporting neurodiverse individuals to successfully navigate and regulate within a neurotypically designed world.

Ellen is currently training as an EMDR therapist, and is eligible to offer EMDR therapy to clients today. Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing therapy focuses directly on altering emotions, thoughts, and responses resulting from traumatic experiences. With a versatile approach that straddles two psychotherapy models, Ellen offers a range of options including therapy that is long-term or short-term, solution or non-solution focussed, talk-based or of minimal talking, or a combination, depending on a client's needs and interests.

Ellen has ADHD and Dyspraxia and identifies a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. With these lived experiences, Ellen is enthusiastic about supporting individuals with neurodiverse and LQBTQIA+ matters.

Addressing Barriers to Care

Neurodivergent people often face significant barriers when trying to access appropriate mental health support. Many therapists lack training or experience in working with this population, leading to misunderstandings, inadequate care, and further traumatisation.

67% of our mental health and wellbeing team have both lived experience and professional experience of neurodivergence. All provide trauma-informed approaches that help overcome these challenges. Don’t be afraid to ask detailed questions about a therapist’s background and approach to ensure it aligns with your needs.

The Importance of Self-Advocacy

As a neurodivergent person, you are the expert on your own experience. Self-advocating for your preferences and boundaries within the therapeutic relationship is crucial. Share information about your neurological differences, sensory needs, and trauma history upfront.

Provide feedback on what does and doesn’t work for you. A collaborative, client-centred approach is central to the service we provide.

Working Through Intergenerational Trauma

Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Team come from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, with both lived and professional experience, and extensive training in racial and cultural marginalisation. As such, we are uniquely equipped to provide support for working through intergenerational trauma.

Intergenerational trauma, also known as transgenerational trauma, refers to the psychological and emotional effects that can be passed down from one generation to the next. It occurs when the trauma experienced by an individual or a group is not adequately addressed or resolved, leading to the effects of that trauma becoming embedded within the family or community, and manifesting in subsequent generations. This can include trauma related to events such as wars, genocides, abuse, oppression, or other deeply impactful and unresolved experiences.

We have practitioners who can provide therapy in Romanian and Polish or offer therapy with an Afro-Caribbean-centric approach.

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With the right trauma-informed support that honours your neurodivergence, healing and growth are possible. The journey may require patience and persistence, but you deserve care that empowers you.