Lucy Sanctuary
Autism Assessment, ADOS-2 Training & Neuro-Affirmative Support
Lucy Sanctuary is an internationally certified ADOS-2 trainer, highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist and experienced autism clinician providing autism assessment, certified ADOS-2 training and autism adapted CBT in London and online.
It is more than a job for me.
Lucy is:
- 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 such as ADHD, language difficulties
- A Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, specialising in autism
- A neurodivergent clinician with professional and lived experience
SERVICES
For Professionals:
ADOS-2 Training for Clinicians
Lucy provides internationally certified ADOS-2 training for professionals that have experience of working with autistic individuals or are involved in autism research. For example, psychologists, speech & language therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health nurses, occupational therapists. She provides in-house training for NHS trusts and for Private Providers.
This is a four-day ADOS-2 training covering Modules 1–4, online and face-to-face in the UK. Lucy is a highly experienced ADOS-2 clinician, committed to providing the best training that she can, enriched by personal as well as professional experience.
Multi-Disciplinary Professional Network
The aim of this network is to bring together all professionals working in identification and support of neurodivergent individuals, with a main focus on autism
The network combines lived experience, clinical work and research, so that all the amazing work happening nationally and internationally can be shared and implemented.
Co-founded by Lucy & Ruth Fine, events are hosted online, and occasionally in person.
For Families & Individuals
Autism Assessments for Children, Young People & Adults
Lucy works 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.
Lucy is particularly interested in assessing girls and women and has 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 Lucy.
For autism assessments Lucy is based in London, at 85 Wimpole Street, W1G 9RJ.
Autism adapted CBT & Post-Diagnostic Support
Lucy strongly believes in joint working and provides family-focused adapted cognitive behaviour therapy for autistic young people, and works therapeutically with young adults.
Everyone Lucy works with therapeutically is autistic, with a range of co-occurring conditions, e.g., anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, eating difficulties, depression, self-harm.
Lucy offers therapy and post diagnostic support in London, at 85 Wimple Street W1G 9RJ, or online.
“It is a privilege to work with such incredible young people, families and schools and related services.”
Testimonials:
“There are some training experiences that leave you with new knowledge, and others that genuinely shape how you think. Doing ADOS-2 was definitely the latter.
I had the privilege of completing intensive training with Lucy Sanctuary whose expertise, passion, and neuro-affirmative approach created an incredibly valuable learning experience.
I’m looking forward to carrying these insights into my practice and continuing to advocate for assessments that are compassionate, meaningful, and truly person-centred.”
Testimonials:
“Thank you so much for taking my son through the ADOS yesterday. My son loved meeting you and asked to come everyday!
He really enjoyed the play and I felt like I was observing a master craftsmanship at work!
Your kindness and peacefulness radiates out.”
Testimonials:
“Being a therapist is not just a job for her, but a calling and a passion to help support neurodiverse individuals and give them a much better quality of life.
But also to make the world a more inclusive and better place where people are accepting of differences.
Lucy is a real gem and we are so lucky to have her in our life.”
Testimonials:
“Lucy, your warmth and clarity is so powerful that the entire process of learning and understanding is incredible.
Thank you. New respect for the ADOS-2.”
Coming up:
Bygone events:
Thank you everyone for attending the conference and your feedback. We might just do it again!
It was a pleasure to work with a committed group of clinicians, alongside Ruth Fine.
Thank you so much to my group for their desire to understand and support the people they work with.