AuDHD & Mental Health Training

Who this is for: Mental health supporting roles, health and social care organisations, and anyone whose work involves supporting neurodivergent people and their mental health — including clinical and non-clinical staff, frontline teams, call handlers, coordinators, and managers.

Most services have good intentions but inconsistent understanding — some staff get it, others don't, and neurodivergent people experience that inconsistency from their very first phone call or referral.

This training brings everyone in your service — clinical and non-clinical — to the same baseline of knowledge and understanding. Rather than creating a specific pathway for a select few, the goal is a service that is more inclusive by default, for everyone who comes through the door.

This session has previously been delivered  delivered to Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Talking Therapies as part of the Vita Health Group.

This half day training covers; 

Why this matters — challenging existing assumptions, including how media portrayal has shaped public understanding of autism and ADHD (largely white, male, and unrepresentative), and why women, girls, and people from racialised and marginalised communities have historically been underdiagnosed

• What is AuDHD — autism, ADHD, and co-occurrence; why the two are difficult to unpick, and why we look at both together
• Co-occurring mental health — understanding that anxiety and depression are separate to neurodivergence but deeply intertwined, and how dysregulation can look like rudeness, aggression or disengagement when it isn't
• Masking — how adults learn to hide their traits, often without realising it, and why this changes what staff actually see day to day
• Environment and what helps — not just physical or sensory environment, but social and communication environment too, including practical adjustments for referral forms, appointment reminders, and phone or virtual communication; recognising burnout versus disengagement; and reassuring staff that many tools they already use for anxiety and depression work well here too, often with only slight adaptation
• Case studies — real scenarios drawn from your team's own survey data (anonymised), worked through in breakout groups and fed back to the wider group, including some deliberately tricky examples to stretch thinking
• Q&A — 15 minutes of open questions at the end
  Half-Day Training | Available in-person or online | Tailored to your organisation

✨ Lived experience of ADHD and autism
✨ Tailored using your own service's survey data

✨ Delivered to Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Talking Therapies as part of the Vita Health Group.
✨ Grounded in honesty, practical change, and real-world scenarios
✨ Designed for health and social care teams supporting neurodivergent people

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