The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

The ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy provides practical advice and insights for autistic individuals seeking effective treatment, including recognizing red flags of inadequate practices and finding a neurodivergent-affirming therapist.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2024
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This is the book that would have saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors, and untold amounts of pain, frustration, and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places. I've become an accidental expert.

In this candid, witty, and insightful exploration into therapy, Steph Jones uses her professional and lived experiences as a late-diagnosed autistic woman and therapist, as well as consulting therapists from across the world and tapping into the autistic community, to create the ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy. Steph confronts the statistics, inadequate practices, and ableist therapists head-on and poses the questions of how we can make therapy neurodivergence-affirming and how to create safe spaces for autistic individuals. With strategic and practical advice to help recognize the red flags of a dodgy therapist and provide a clear roadmap to finding your confidence and setting the appropriate boundaries with a new therapist, Steph has every question answered.

To support therapists striving for inclusivity and a neurodiverse affirming practice, the inclusion of a context guide provides a deconstruction of each therapy session so you can recognize how undiagnosed (or diagnosed) autism may present itself during therapy and how you can start to explore this in the therapeutic space.

Weight: 288g
Dimension: 138 x 215 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839977312