The Double Empathy Reader

The Double Empathy Reader brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and practitioners, with first-hand accounts of neurodivergent people, to explore this growing area of study within the neurodiversity movement.

This comprehensive handbook explores Damian Milton’s ‘double empathy problem’: the breakdown in mutual understanding that can happen between any two people yet is more likely to occur when people of differing dispositions attempt to interact. It challenges the traditional view that in exchanges between autistic and non-autistic people, this breakdown was simply the result of autistic people being inherently deficient in empathy. Thirteen years after the theory was first published, The Double Empathy Reader brings together an important volume of work to explore the research that has developed in that time as well as the many gaps in our understanding that still exist, with the aim to understand the potential of this theory to aid a reframing of autism itself and the radical change this could bring when considering best practice models for supporting autistic people in different settings.

This title is the first in a new ‘Readers in Neurodiversity’ series, which follows Milton et al’s The Neurodiversity Reader, first published in 2020. In keeping with this earlier collection, this new volume also explores how the concept of the ‘double empathy problem’ may be of use in wider theory and practice regarding neurodiversity.

This will involve taking lead in the research and development of various projects that are evolving from the findings of Doctoral Research inclusive of the development of a conceptual framework named Neurotransception.

I will work with a wide range of associates at the regional, national and international level who have specific experience in areas that can be brought in as a multifaceted team to ensure services are tailored to be effective and efficient and affordable to all.

Through collaboration with a range of peers, I will be exploring the design, development and delivery of various projects that will be rolled out to a range of services.

I will also be disseminating my research and ongoing research through a range of conferences as well as collaborating with a range of professionals in other publications.

Providing Neuro-affirmative Research Supervision for graduates and post-graduates. completing their Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees. Specialising in areas of Methodology, Neurodivergence and Relational Power Dynamics.

Some of these are:

Developing a relational bespoke debriefing model that can hold the needs of both the service user, the individual staff member, and the organisation providing the service, while ensuring the individual receiving the debriefing support feels heard and supported, while also having a pathway for post-development growth. Please see the debriefing section for more information.

Integrating my theory of Neurotransception within a Therapeutic, Coaching and Supervisory framework and how that may be practically accessible. Please see the Neurotransception section for more information.

Exploring how to develop trauma informed care support services at an embodied level.

Exploring Research Methodologies from an Intersubjective analysis in a way that captures the individual and complexity of individuals within the system they are part of.

Developing practice-based articles and Webinars that can be accessed by all.

I am available to speak as a Freelance Conference Speaker on both my research in Neurotransception, as well as on a range of other findings from my Doctoral research, that has been applied across all strands of my academic and therapeutic practice.

Our Services

Reginal and national across UK Mainland, Northern Ireland & ROI as well as international in the areas counselling, psychotherapy, neurodivergent affirming therapeutic support, life and executive coaching, training, and clinical supervision services.