Stephanie Aspen PhD

I am a neurodivergent integrative therapist, which means I work with knowledge and models drawn from different schools of therapy: in my case, I take a person-centred approach which I combine with creative methods (working with images, story and dreams, as the client prefers) but I tend to avoid behaviourist approaches such as CBT. I have a good working-knowledge of creative approaches and hold PhDs in poetry and counselling studies, with a focus on the relationship between creative writing and the mind (I am the author of Poetry and Therapy: why words help, published by PCCS Books in 2025). My work is anti-oppressive which means that I am also interested in the ways in which the structure of society (e.g. work and other societal expectations) have a negative impact on neurodivergent people and the ways in which they see themselves.