Chat Well Group Therapy (and Social Groups) support clients to participate in social activities with children with common interests. They provide opportunities to practice and utilise skills in a real life scenarios. 

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Our Group Therapy use neurodiversity-affirming practices. This means that they will always use strengths based approaches, support clients to understand that neurodivergence is welcome, while helping to equip them with tools to have positive social experiences..

As an example of what neurodiversity affirming practice means:

If a client is not comfortable with making eye contact (which is a neurotypical expectation), our team will not encourage them to do this. Our team promotes modifying the "environment" with the provision of supports, instead of expecting clients to change who they are or train them to do something if it is both uncomfortable and unnecessary. They may explain why such an expectation exists, but the choice about how they wish to respond to that expectation belongs to the client.