Understand yourself more deeply
Explore your identity, needs, strengths, values and the experiences that have shaped how you understand yourself.
Long-Term Psychological Therapy
Understanding yourself
is one thing.
Living with that
understanding is another.
Understanding why you think, feel or experience the world differently can bring clarity. Long-term psychological therapy provides space to explore what that understanding means for your individual life, relationships, emotional wellbeing and everyday functioning.
Areas Therapy May Explore
Burnout
Masking
Executive
Functioning
Anxiety &
Emotional Regulation
Relationships
& Boundaries
Identity, Belonging
& Self-Beliefs
What is Long-Term Psychological Therapy?
Space to understand. Support to move forward.
Long-term psychological therapy provides an ongoing, collaborative space to understand yourself more deeply and explore the experiences, difficulties and patterns that affect your life.
Rather than focusing only on an immediate difficulty, therapy can explore how your thoughts, emotions, relationships, past experiences and everyday functioning connect over time.
For autistic and ADHD adults, this may also include understanding neurodivergence in the context of your own life and developing approaches that reflect your individual needs, values and goals.
Why Someone Might Choose Long-Term Therapy
Navigate burnout & overwhelm
Understand patterns of overwhelm, demands and exhaustion, and explore what may help life feel more sustainable.
Build healthier relationships & boundaries
Explore communication, connection, conflict, expectations, boundaries and your responses to other people's emotions.
Work through anxiety & emotional overwhelm
Explore anxiety, uncertainty, overthinking and emotional experiences, and develop ways of responding that work for you.
Make everyday life more manageable
Explore executive functioning, routines, sensory needs, work, study and the practical demands of everyday life.
Process past experiences & self-beliefs
Explore the impact of feeling different, misunderstood, rejected or excluded, and the beliefs that may have developed over time.
Therapy and Neurodivergence
It's not about changing who you are.
Long-term therapy is not about treating Autism or ADHD, or teaching someone to appear less neurodivergent. It is psychological therapy shaped around the individual, their experiences, difficulties and goals.
Therapy can provide space to better understand your needs, recognise patterns that may no longer be helpful, process difficult experiences and develop ways of navigating life that work for you.
Our Psychologists
Psychologists specialising in Autism, ADHD and neurodiversity
Our team includes Clinical and Counselling Psychologists who work with autistic and ADHD adults through psychological assessment, therapy and ongoing support.
Michael Nel (Chael)
Clinical Psychologist
Founder & Director
Chael has over 20 years’ experience in psychotherapy and works extensively with autistic and ADHD adults.
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Kevin Naidu
Clinical Psychologist
Kevin works with autistic and ADHD adults around relationships, workplace challenges, trauma and emotional regulation.
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Brenton Thornton
Counselling Psychologist
Brenton offers a collaborative and reflective therapeutic space for neurodivergent adults seeking greater self-understanding.
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Athenea Faye
Clinical Psychologist
Athenea works with autistic and ADHD adults around identity, relationships, personal growth and major life transitions.
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Lesego Lekgothoane
Clinical Psychologist
Lesego uses an integrative, culturally sensitive and neurodiversity-affirming approach with autistic and ADHD adults.
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Emile Wilmans
Counselling Psychologist
Emile provides adult Autism and ADHD assessments together with long-term therapy for neurodivergent adults.
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If you're ready to explore how long-term psychological therapy could support you, we'd love to hear from you.
