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I am a self-employed carer providing personalised support to autistic and neurodivergent adults at home and in the community.  I have specialist knowledge, education and training in supporting autistic adults, 20 years’ experience as a registered social worker supporting disabled adults and children and lived experience of autism and ADHD.  I will work in accordance with your goals and aims to support your health, wellbeing and happiness through a personalised, neurodiversity affirming approach.   I work throughout the Chester and surrounding area and accept direct payment (with a top up to my hourly rate) and self funding clients.

 Types of emotional and practical support I can provide:

• Companionship, friendship, befriending and mental health support
• Post diagnostic support and developing identity after autism diagnosis
• Support to develop and maintain relationships and friendships

• Support in learning how to keep yourself safe in your relationships with others
• Emotional support and guidance in relation to parenting and caring
• Help to navigate social, health and educational services

• Help to clean, tidy, declutter and make sure your home is safe and hygienic
• Help you to launder your clothes
• Support to plan, prepare and cook healthy meals considering sensory preferences
• Help you to create and maintain a comfortable home that meets your needs
• Give you reminders and reassurance in maintaining your personal hygiene
• Accessing exercise or leisure activities such as walking, gym, bike rides, or swimming
• Make, remember and provide support to travel and attend appointments
• Budgeting and managing money and debt support
• Help to travel to appointments, work or education
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings with client consent and to support clients to self-advocate in these settings
• Help in caring for pets and keeping them healthy and happy
• Help to implement the advice of health professionals such as GP, physios etc
• Provide support to clients to understand information and perspectives when making important decisions.
• Discuss, order, check, prompts to self-administer and reorder medication
• Practical and emotional support to go shopping
• Increasing confidence to access shops, cafes, and other community places that may interest to you
• Support to pursue special interests and to find similar others with same interests
• Help to make benefit or grant applications

A bit more about me

I have worked for over 20 years in social care, am registered with Social Care England, have a master’s degree in Critical Autism Studies and am a qualified Best Interest assessor.  I have lived experience of supporting neurodivergent family members through transition to young adulthood, in navigating SEN education, EHCP processes and health systems.  I am later life diagnosed as neurodivergent and openly identify as autistic with ADHD.

I have training in low-demand approaches, neurodiversity-affirming practice, sensory integration, communication differences, and safeguarding for adults and children

I am mum to a Jack Russell terrier and a not very imaginatively named cat called ‘Puss’.  I love to grow vegetables and flowers. I have 10 houseplants and a tiny wildlife pond in an almost equally tiny back yard.  I am a keen runner (although not very fast) and enjoy trips away in my camper van.  I like to ride my bike (I have a carrier on the back for my little dog) and go to the gym occasionally.  I enjoy walking, open water swimming, arts and crafts, watching wildlife, foraging for wild-grown foods, watching nature and real life crime documentaries.

Areas: Chester and surrounding area, Ellesmere Port, Saltney, Helsby, Tarvin, Elton, Kelsall,

Languages: English

Last Updated: 4th November, 2024