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Services for Adults
At Bright Path Psychology, we offer a range of services designed to support you. From evidence-based therapies to tailored assessments, we focus on understanding your unique needs and providing compassionate care to help you move forward. Here’s a bit more about what we do and how we can help. I have a specialist interest in supporting neurodivergent people in my clinical work with adults.
Initial Consultation
Seeking support as an adult can feel like a significant step, particularly if you're navigating recent changes, a new diagnosis, or long-standing patterns of stress, burnout, or feeling misunderstood. The initial consultation is designed to be a thoughtful and gentle starting point. It offers space to explore your current experience and reflect on what you might need from therapy, without any pressure to have all the answers.
This first meeting is collaborative, relaxed, and paced according to what feels comfortable for you. Whether you’re seeking clarity, connection, or support for specific challenges, the consultation is an opportunity to begin making sense of things together.
You’ll also receive a written summary after the session, which outlines the main themes we discussed, along with personalised recommendations for next steps.
What to Expect
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Timeframe: The consultation lasts up to 90 minutes and allows time to talk through your concerns and goals.
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We’ll explore what’s brought you here, what you’re hoping for, and anything that feels important to share.
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You’re welcome to bring notes or questions, or just arrive as you are - there’s no right or wrong way to begin.
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Questionnaires: You may be offered questionnaires ahead of the session to help guide our discussion; these are optional.
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Outcome: After the session, you’ll receive a written summary and clear recommendations for next steps.
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Our goal is to make you feel safe, understood, and confident about the next steps. An initial consultation is about mapping out the journey.
Autism Assessments for Adults
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Sometimes, making sense of your experience requires a closer look. For many adults, seeking an autism assessment comes after years of feeling different, misunderstood, or exhausted by the demands of masking and adapting. A formal assessment can offer clarity, validation, and a deeper understanding of how your brain works - and why certain aspects of life may have felt particularly challenging.
At Bright Path Psychology, autism assessments are carried out with care, sensitivity, and a neuroaffirming approach. The process is collaborative and respectful, and designed to help you feel seen and understood - not judged or reduced to a checklist.
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What to Expect:
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Initial Interview: You’ll meet with a clinician to explore your developmental history, current experiences, and areas of strength and difficulty. This conversation helps build a rich picture of who you are and how you experience the world.
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Assessment Tools: You may be invited to complete structured questionnaires and participate in tasks designed to support the diagnostic process. These are tailored to adult experiences and discussed with context and care.
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Optional Input from a Family Member: If helpful and available, we may invite a parent, sibling, or someone who knew you in childhood to share their perspective. This can support the assessment but is not required if it doesn’t feel appropriate or possible.
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Feedback and Report: Once the assessment is complete, you’ll be offered a feedback session where we will go through the findings together. You’ll also receive a detailed written report with the outcome and recommendations for next steps, including any further support or accommodations that may be helpful.
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Please note that the assessment process includes at least one in-person session at our practice in North Devon. For some people, this may require planning or travel. We aim to make the process as comfortable and accessible as possible, and can offer additional guidance on what to expect during your visit.
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Our aim is that you leave the process with greater self-understanding, language for your experience, and a clearer sense of how to support yourself moving forward - whether a diagnosis is given or not.
Therapy
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At Bright Path Psychology, therapy is tailored to you - not just your challenges, but your whole self. Whether you’re seeking support for anxiety, identity questions, burnout, or adjusting to a recent autism or ADHD diagnosis, we offer a thoughtful, flexible approach that centres your voice and values.
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Therapy is informed by what we learn during your initial consultation, and shaped collaboratively as we go. Some people benefit from more structured, skills-based approaches, while others are looking for deeper reflection, emotional integration, or identity work. We draw on a range of models to provide therapy that fits you - not the other way around.
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I have extensive experience in adapting therapy to meet the needs of neurodivergent adults. This includes supporting clients who have been masking for years, who feel overwhelmed by traditional therapy models, or who are looking to explore their internal experience in a validating and empowering way.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a structured, goal-focused therapy that helps identify how patterns of thinking and behaviour influence emotional wellbeing. It can be particularly effective for difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and trauma-related stress.
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We begin by identifying current difficulties and mapping out how your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physical responses interact.
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You’ll learn practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thought patterns, reduce avoidance, and build more supportive habits.
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Sessions are active and collaborative, and between-session practices may be offered to help apply skills in real life.
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CBT can be adapted to work at a pace that feels safe and manageable, with flexibility for sensory, cognitive, or emotional needs.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
CFT supports people who struggle with high self-criticism, shame, or a persistent sense of not being good enough. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary theory to help us understand how our brains respond to threat - and how we can create more safety and self-kindness internally.
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You’ll learn how emotional systems (threat, drive, and soothing) shape your internal landscape and influence how you relate to yourself.
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We explore the origins of self-criticism and work gently to develop a more compassionate, supportive internal voice.
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Techniques may include guided imagery, soothing practices, psychoeducation, and reflective exercises.
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CFT is particularly helpful for clients who have internalised shame or have difficulty feeling deserving of care or rest.
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Internal Family Systems-Informed Therapy (IFS)
IFS offers a non-pathologising, deeply respectful approach to exploring the different “parts” within you—such as the part that feels anxious, the one that pushes through at all costs, or the one that wants to withdraw. Many neurodivergent adults find IFS especially resonant, as it honours complexity and reduces internal conflict without blame or pressure.
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We work together to identify and understand the parts of you that show up in different situations—protective, reactive, vulnerable, or calm.
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Therapy focuses on building relationships with these parts, allowing more compassion, insight, and choice in how you respond to life’s challenges.
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Sessions may include visualisation, dialogue, and reflection—always at your pace, and in a way that feels safe and contained.
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IFS can be particularly supportive for adults who have spent years masking, managing high levels of internal pressure, or navigating emotional disconnection.
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Always a Personalised, Neuroaffirming Approach
Therapy at Bright Path Psychology is never one-size-fits-all. Together, we choose a way of working that feels right for you, and this may evolve over time. You are always an active participant in shaping the direction and depth of the work.
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Throughout the process, particular care is taken to adapt therapy to meet neurodivergent needs. This might involve adjusting the structure of sessions, using visual supports or creative tools, simplifying or pacing verbal communication, or making space for sensory needs and energy fluctuations. Sessions can be grounding, exploratory, and validating - offering a space where you don’t have to explain, justify, or perform.
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The aim is for therapy to feel authentic, effective, and supportive - helping you make sense of your experiences, strengthen your inner resources, and move toward the life you want to lead.
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