Event Details

The Psychologists Protection Society Trust welcomed Dr Tom Nicholson as our first speaker at the Psychologists Protection Society Trusts AGM at the Place Hotel, 34-36 York Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3HU on the afternoon of 26^th April 2025.

Session Outline

This talk explored the best practices of working with neurodivergent clients by detailing the lived experience of neurodivergent traits for service users and staff across the neurodiversity spectrum. The talk primarily focused on ADHD and Autism and delved into the benefits as well as the challenges that these differences may bring to the therapy space. Advice was given regarding how best to work with neurodivergent clients, how to create a neuroinclusive therapy space, and how to develop helpful strategies and alternative perspectives to ensure those clients get inclusive and effective support. 

Speaker Information

Dr Nicholson is a prominent ADHD and neurodiversity expert who delivers bespoke talks, consultations, and training for organisations wanting to improve their understanding of neurodivergence.

He holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Mental Health Nursing at Northumbria University, where his research explores the lived experience of neurodivergence, and was a mental health nurse working within a Children and Young People’s neurodevelopmental assessment service.

Diagnosed with ADHD in childhood, Tom uses his lived experience of ADHD alongside his clinical and academic background to give a nuanced and varied perspective to his work.