Kasia Wojewodka Counselling

26/06/2025

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"That's not safeguarding, that's an exercise in profiling," the Springwatch presenter said in a video shared on social media.

27/05/2025

Yes! This 👇 🤩

14/05/2025

Absolutely brilliant!!!! 🤩

11/05/2025

Looking forward to this ……. 👇

Tomorrow night at 9pm on our second series of ‘Inside Our Minds’ begins with a programme exploring the lived experience of those with ADHD . Necessary , urgent , powerful and heartfelt . . . please watch and share on

26/04/2025

Let’s hope so 🤞 🤩

Anna Rebowska was encouraged to pursue a role that required less talking, she tells Helen Rumbelow

02/04/2025

We need you to show up 🤩💞

17/03/2025

This Neurodiversity Celebration Week enjoy learning through some of the wonderful Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025!

This year they are bringing you more panel discussions than ever before, with inspirational speakers from a range of backgrounds and professions. The discussions will all be focusing on key neurodiversity topics, and aim to educate while inspiring conversations about neurodiversity.

All events are free of charge and open to all. Please do sign up to as many events as you like and share with others, so we can all join together in celebrating different minds! https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/events

If you can't make it, then never fear, they will be recording the webinars to send out so you can catch up at a later date/time.
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We've created a diverse schedule of events for you to enjoy during Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! All events are free of charge.

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day 🤩

24/02/2025

🚀 We are thrilled to launch the online self-referral form for Swindon and Wiltshire Talking Therapies!

Self-refer today and you will be booked to see one of our practitioners within 6 weeks.

➡️Swindon Talking Therapies: www.awp.nhs.uk/our-services/talking-therapies/self-refer-today/swindon

➡️Wiltshire Talking Therapies: www.awp.nhs.uk/our-services/talking-therapies/self-refer-today/wiltshire

19/02/2025

Please email your MP - we only have until end of Feb 🤞

Right To Choose (England only) is about to be constrained to oblivion. Change is coming in weeks via an update to an NHS document “The NHS Payment Scheme”. It’s in consultation now but you’re not allowed to respond. NHS Choice and Right to Choose was given by Parliament to the people. It’s in the NHS Constitution. The proposed change is wrong in principle and wrong in its process. It should be debated in Parliament and the General Public have input. Ask your MP to stand up for our rights. It’s urgent. Please do it today. Learn more and write to your MP here: https://adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to-choose-changes/

10/02/2025

Absolutely brilliant!! 🤩 👏

I caused a small explosion in a child’s brain on Saturday (metaphorically speaking).

I was in Chippenham for a Rubik’s cube tournament, and a competitor I know came along his brother (8 years old and autistic) for the first time. His mum pointed me out, saying “this is Chris – he’s autistic too! He’s got the same kind of awesome brain that you have!”
The boy was immediately dismissive, saying “autism isn’t a good thing, it just means you think different to everyone. Why’s that good?”
He may have asked this rhetorically, but I gave a genuine answer. There was an opportunity here.

“Do you want to know why autism exists?” I asked.
“Why?”
I sat down to give my answer. (And a quick disclaimer- I didn’t come up with this on the spot. I speak professionally about neurodiversity using this analogy, and it works well.)

“Ok, imagine you have ten people on a desert island, they have one hour to build a shelter before a storm arrives, and all of them have exactly the same brain. They only have one set of ideas, one way of looking at the problem, and will probably only come up with one solution.
But now imagine you have ten different people on that island – one’s neurotypical, one’s autistic, one’s dyslexic, one has ADHD and so on.
THAT way, you have TEN different sets of ideas, and they’re ten times more likely to get that shelter built- as long as they listen to each other.”

He looked like he immediately understood. Then I finished by saying:
“THAT’s why autism exists. Because humans do so much better when they can think about problems in lots of different ways!”

And then BANG. The look on his face…
People talk all the time about seeing the instant someone has an “I get it!” moment, but in my experience they’re rarely as stark as that boy’s face – from the wide expanding of the eyes, to the looking away from me in a moment of “wow, I need to process this for a second”.

Best moment of the day, by far. (And this was a day when I solved a 7x7x7 cube in under seven minutes. Three times.)

One of my ‘catchphrases’ when speaking is “human progress relies on diversity of thought”. It’s a fact that our species relies on, which is all too easily forgotten when we're too busy pathologising difference, or treating autistic people as inferior (and when autistic people are busy obediently believing it).

Like I said, I don’t just use this analogy with children. I use it with companies when discussing why neurodiversity in the workplace isn’t just a piece of performative inclusion, but an active part in improving your company. I use it in school staff training. I use it in general conversation while geeking out about neurodiversity.

I won't be forgetting the look in that boy’s face for a long time. In a day packed with speedsolving Rubik’s cubes, that was by far the most important moment.

07/02/2025

Recently, Dr Raman Sharma led a virtual talk focusing on ADHD in children. He shared advice on signs to look out for, how to access the care your child might need and what the Trust can do to support.

🎬For those who were unable to join on the day, you can watch the health talk recording back here: https://youtu.be/py-p4QQvkNA