Professional Learning and Consultation
Training draws on clinical expertise, affirming research, and lived experience.
Online Professional Learning:
‘Critical Perspectives on Sleep Health Care for Neurodivergent People’
Live Online Training | Approximately 3 hours
Team training for groups of 4+
This live, interactive training explores sleep through neurodiversity affirming, critical disability and lived experience perspectives, alongside clinical sleep knowledge. We will consider how ideas about sleep are shaped by culture, history, disability, and what this means for our work as therapists.
We will explore:
Deconstructing normative ideas about sleep
Sleep as a political, cultural and historical construct
Critical perspectives on sleep health care
Iatrogenic harm in sleep support for neurodivergent people
Neurodiversity-affirming clinical foundations for assessing and supporting sleep across the lifespan
Practical applications in therapy
Examples and clinical reflection
Space for questions, discussion and reflection throughout the session
This training is designed for therapists who want to think more critically about the way sleep is understood and supported.
If you’re a sole therapist and interested in participating, please get in touch. If there is enough interest, Karenza may be able to bring together a small group session.
Pricing varies depending on group size, with content and duration able to be tailored to your team's needs. Please get in touch to discuss options.
Other workshop topics
Karenza has previously delivered training on topics including:
Working with autistic teens and adults
Understanding autism and neurodiversity-affirming practice
Understanding and supporting autistic sleep
Neurodivergence in healthcare
Supporting the mental health of neurodivergent students
Building neurodivergent-affirming workplaces
At present, Karenza is offering professional training on sleep only as she gradually returns from maternity leave. She may reopen other workshop topics in the future. If there is a topic you'd like to see offered again, you are welcome to express your interest.
Karenza has delivered training to public and private hospitals, therapy clinics, schools and workplaces across Australia. Her training draws on over 14 years of clinical mental health experience, combined with lived experience of neurodivergence and chronic illness.
She is passionate about helping teams create neurodiversity-affirming practices that genuinely support neurodivergent people in healthcare, education and employment.
Professional Consultation
$300AUD / hour
This service is for individuals, organisations, and companies seeking expert review and guidance on services or products. Karenza provides constructive, neuro-affirming feedback, identifying strengths and highlighting areas for improvement to better support autistic and neurodivergent people.
Consultations may include review of:
Educational and clinical programs
Client services within medical or healthcare settings
Organisational policies, procedures, and systems
Professional articles and written resources
Published materials and reports
Online content and resources
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