Lucy Sanctuary
About Me
I am a neurodivergent clinician with personal and professional experience of autism and ADHD. I am committed to providing high-standard, neuro-affirmative assessment, training and support.
It is more than a job for me.
I am:
- a highly specialist speech & language therapist
- an internationally certified ADOS-2 Trainer
- an experienced ADOS clinician, who specialises in assessing girls & women and co-occurring conditions, e.g., mental health difficulties, other forms of neurodivergence, language difficulties
- a cognitive behaviour therapist, specialising in autism
SERVICES
ADOS-2 Training
I am an experienced ADOS-2 clinician and trainer. I have provided in-house training for several NHS trusts as well as for companies and individuals with a range of different professions, e.g., psychologists, speech & language therapists, psychiatrists, prison officers, social workers, mental health nurses. I run reliability workshops and administration workshops as well as providing one-to-one and group supervision.
Assessment
I work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide autism assessments for all ages. We follow NICE guidelines and use current gold standard approaches (ADI-R, ADOS, information from nursery, school, college, employment) and screen for other areas of possible difference, e.g., anxiety, sensory processing, activity levels, depending on the individual’s profile. I am particularly interested in assessing girls and women and have considerable experience of this. This very often means differentiating between autism, mental health and attention deficit hyperactive disorder, which is another area of interest for me.
Therapy
I strongly believe in joint working and provide family-focused adapted cognitive behaviour therapy for autistic young people, and I work therapeutically with young adults. Everyone I work with therapeutically is autistic, but they have a range of co-morbid conditions, e.g., anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, eating difficulties, depression, self-harm. It is a privilege to work with such incredible young people, families and schools and related services.
