About the Work

My practice brings together integrative therapy, coaching, supervision, research and academic work. I am particularly interested in neurodivergence, identity, creativity and the relationship between how we experience ourselves and the ways we are represented and understood by others.

I work with people who are looking for something thoughtful, psychologically informed and individual rather than a standardised approach.

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

About Me

Thanks for visiting my website. I’m Dr Stephanie Aspin PhD— an integrative therapist, coach, supervisor, writer, researcher and educator.

I have worked with individuals, groups and organisations for more than 15 years, alongside a long career in higher education. My work brings together psychotherapy, coaching, academic research, creativity and writing, with a particular interest in neurodivergence, identity and the ways we come to understand ourselves.

I mainly work with neurodivergent adults, although my practice is not exclusively neurodivergent. I work with people who are trying to make sense of themselves, their relationships, their work or their place in the world — sometimes because the ways they have been taught to understand themselves no longer fit.

My approach is integrative, person-centred and relational. I don’t work from a single formula or assume that one way of working will suit everyone. I’m interested in the individual person and in the complexity of their circumstances, including the social and cultural contexts in which they live.

I am neurodivergent myself, and this informs my work alongside my professional training, clinical experience and research. I hold doctorates in counselling studies and poetry, and my academic and professional interests have long centred on questions of identity, creativity, language and representation: how we make sense of ourselves, how other people see us, and what happens when those things don’t align.

I grew up in north-west London, in a highly multicultural and socially diverse part of the city. It was an environment that made difference feel ordinary and made me aware from an early age of the ways that culture, class and social context shape how we experience ourselves and others. This continues to inform my thinking and my commitment to anti-oppressive practice.

My practice is neuro-affirming, LGBTQI+ inclusive and anti-oppressive. I take seriously the ways that ableism, marginalisation, power and exclusion can affect psychological wellbeing and our sense of who we are. I don’t see people’s difficulties as existing in isolation from the world around them, and I don’t believe that the aim of therapy should simply be to make people better at fitting into systems that may not fit them.

Alongside my private practice, I co-founded A-Typicats, a neurodiversity training and consultancy organisation. Through this work, I provide training, coaching and consultation for organisations and professionals who want to develop their understanding of neurodivergence and create more inclusive environments and practices.

I am also the author of Poetry/Therapy: Why Words Help (PCCS: 2025), and my current writing and research explore the intersections between creativity, identity, representation and the development of a sense of self.

My work across all of these areas is connected by a common question: how do we become more fully ourselves when the available ways of understanding ourselves don’t quite fit?

That’s the question that sits at the heart of my therapeutic work, my research and my writing.

MNCPS (Accred.)

NCPS 521-01613