Why It Matters
At Autimly, our Mental Health Support is tailored for neurodivergent people navigating anxiety, burnout, low mood, sensory trauma, masking fatigue, or emotional overwhelm. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or simply exhausted, our network of therapists meet you with care, not correction.
For autistic and ADHD individuals, mental health support can be a lifeline, but traditional approaches often miss the mark. Too often, therapy focuses on “fixing behaviours” rather than honouring needs. For example, what’s often labelled as “anxiety” may actually be sensory overload. What’s seen as “withdrawal” may be a protective shutdown. What’s misdiagnosed as “personality disorder” might in fact be chronic masking and trauma from years of not being accepted.
At Autimly, we understand these experiences. Our support doesn’t push you to mask, it helps you unmask safely. We don’t ask you to adapt to therapy; we adapt therapy to you.
Who This Support Is For
Autistic and ADHD adults, diagnosed or self identified- Parents and carers of autistic and ADHD children
How Autimly Can Support You
- Therapy with neuro-affirming clinicians: Our network of therapists understand autism, ADHD, and related neurotypes deeply. They can explore issues like masking, rejection sensitivity, executive functioning struggles, or identity confusion, without judgment or pressure.
- Support for burnout & emotional exhaustion: Whether you’re overwhelmed by daily demands or just deeply tired, our experts can help you rebuild at your own pace, and offer strategies for energy management, boundary setting, and gentle recovery.
- Anxiety, panic & shutdown support: Our experts help you identify triggers, develop co-regulation strategies, and feel safe in your body again.
- Support with identity, self worth & trauma: Many neurodivergent people carry years of shame or feel “too much” or “not enough.” Our therapy honours those stories and helps rewrite them with compassion.
- Sensory aware emotional regulation: Our experts understand that emotional dysregulation often overlaps with sensory needs.They can support you to track patterns and develop tailored regulation tools e.g. movement, deep pressure, sensory kits, structured routines.
- Parent/carer emotional support: If you're raising or caring for a neurodivergent child, we offer space for you too — to unpack guilt, anxiety, burnout or grief, without judgment.
Our Services
1. Counselling and Psychotherapy: This includes support for anxiety and panic, depression and low mood, trauma and PTSD, OCD traits, and the emotional challenges of masking or identity. For autistic and ADHD clients, therapy is adapted (Delivered by counsellors and psychotherapists)
This includes support for:
- Anxiety and panic
- Depression and low mood
- Trauma and PTSD
- OCD traits and intrusive thoughts
- Burnout and shutdown
- Identity, masking, and self understanding
- Relationships and life transitions
2. Clinical Psychology: In-depth psychological assessment, diagnosis, and formulation for complex or overlapping needs delivered by HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists. Our clinicians offer comprehensive evaluations tailored to neurodivergent profiles, and produce clear, accessible reports for schools, local authorities, or healthcare providers. These assessments help clarify diagnostic questions, inform support plans, and guide multi agency collaboration.
This may include:
- Formal psychological assessments (e.g., autism, ADHD, emotional or cognitive profiling)
- Integrated psychological formulations that explore how different needs interact across home, education, and personal wellbeing
- Official diagnostic and clinical reports that meet statutory or professional requirements, access arrangements, or medical referrals
3. Parent and Carer Mental Health Support - Supporting a neurodivergent child can be deeply meaningful and profoundly demanding. The emotional labour of caregiving, navigating services, advocating at every turn, and managing your own responses can leave you stretched thin.
Our experts can provide support for:
- Burnout
- Guilt and emotional fatigue
- Relationship dynamics
- Isolation
- Navigating systems and pressure
- Emotional overload from sustained caring demands
4. Psychiatry through medical services - Psychiatrists are medical doctors who specialise in mental health and can diagnose conditions, prescribe medication, and support more complex or high-risk needs. At Autimly, we work alongside psychiatric services so that if additional medical support is ever needed, this can be gently suggested as part of your wider care. If you are interested in exploring medication or medical led support, you can also choose to book directly with a psychiatrist through our Medical Services section.
Our Therapy Approach
We offer therapy that is trauma informed, sensory safe, and explicitly neurodivergent affirming. That means:
- No pathologising or “fixing”
- No pressure to mask
- No one size fits all expectations
Instead, we offer calm, respectful spaces where you're listened to as a whole person. Sessions are adapted to suit your communication style.
Many Autimly therapists work integratively. This means they draw from multiple therapeutic approaches such as cognitive, relational, creative, sensory, and mindfulness-based work to shape therapy around you. There is no single right way to do therapy here. Support adapts to your nervous system, capacity, and your pace. Core therapeutic approaches include:
- Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Structured support to explore thoughts, patterns, and coping tools tailored to suit literal thinking and processing differences.
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, adapted for sensory needs and executive functioning challenges.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Helping individuals build psychological flexibility, clarify values, and take empowered steps without forcing change or masking.
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR): A trauma informed method to gently process difficult experiences, adapted to support sensory safety and pacing.
- Compassion Focused Therapy: Supporting self acceptance, especially for those experiencing shame, rejection sensitivity, or chronic self criticism.
- Relational and Humanistic Therapies: Emphasising trust, connection, and the therapeutic relationship as a safe foundation for healing and growth.
- Mindfulness Based Approaches: Present-moment strategies for grounding, sensory awareness, and emotional regulation always optional and adapted.
- Play Based and Creative Therapies (for children and young people): Using art, movement, storytelling, or sensory tools to help younger clients express and process feelings in their own language.
Our network includes neurodivergent therapists or professionals with lived experience, so we don’t just understand on paper; we get it emotionally too.
How It Works
- Tell us what you are experiencing - Short, emotionally safe intake with no medical language and no pressure
- Get matched to the right professional - Based on communication style, sensory needs, emotional profile, and identity preferences
- Book only what you need - Short consults, ongoing therapy, parent support, or specialist sessions with no lock ins
What to Expect
- A warm welcome and no pressure to “present” a certain way
- Clear boundaries and check-ins so you feel emotionally safe
- Time to process with silence, scripting, or stimming always okay
- Consistent therapists who understand sensory needs and burnout
- Practical takeaways, only when you're ready for them
- Options to involve a parent, partner or support person (if you want)
Sessions are typically 50 minutes and can be held online or in-person, depending on your preferences and availability.
Why Autimly?
- Neurodivergent affirming clinicians: No masking required, just real, respectful support.
- Sensory aware and trauma informed: Our therapists work with your nervous system, not against it.
- Flexible communication: Silence, scripting, stimming, or typed communication are all welcome here.
- Rooted in lived experience: Many of our therapists are neurodivergent themselves, so they understand from the inside.
- Your pace, your plan: We follow your lead gently, patiently, and without agenda.
