with Sarah Wilson

Workshop details:

There is much research emerging into co-occurring mental health difficulties and neurodiversity whether this be mild to moderate anxiety and depression, or enduring mental health difficulties such as an eating disorder or disordered eating.

My clinical experience has predominately been focused on working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, but in more recent years specifically clients with eating disorders and eating difficulties. Eating difficulties can present in many ways, and the function of perhaps restrictive eating patterns, binging, amongst others can vary from person to person. During my clinical experience, one thing I have been struck by is sometimes the lack of person-centred care that has been present for clients who have an autism diagnosis. This can be for many reasons, perhaps natural team shortages and additional pressures, lack of training in certain areas, amongst others. Therefore, the aim of my webinar is to discuss eating difficulties with clients who have an autism diagnosis, whilst also exploring how we can support clients by ensuring that we take into account their neurodiversity.

About Sarah:

Sarah is a CBT & DBT Therapist and Co-Founder of a private mental health practice, Umid. Sarah has developed a wealth of experience working with individuals across the lifespan in both inpatient and outpatient settings within the NHS and private healthcare organisations.

Sarah initially completed her psychology degree in 2011, following by additional postgraduate training in Social Work and later Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Throughout Sarah's career, she has gained additional training and experience in various psychological therapies, including, DBT, CBT-E, MANTRA and compassion focused therapy. Sarah has specialist expertise in neurodevelopmental assessments and is trained in both ADOS-2 and ADI-R.

Sarah has always had a specialist interest in working with individuals with eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours. She was the Clinical Lead for Psychological Therapies at The Priory Hospital where she led the psychological therapies team across a specialist eating disorder unit, and two acute wards.