Hi, I’m Christine.
I am a late-discovered and neuro-affirming Autistic Psychotherapist and Coach. I am passionate about supporting individuals and families to learn more about what it is to be Autistic, and with this support, empower them and those around them to live a more comfortable and fulfilling life.
Contact me today if:
- you think you might be Autistic and you are looking for support on your self-identification journey
- you have received a diagnosis and are looking for support in processing your emotions around this discovery
- you are a family member wishing to support an Autistic loved one in a neuro-affirming way
- your family member is Autistic and you would benefit from some 1:1 support for yourself, as you support them.
I am also a Wellbeing Life Coach and my ‘My Kind of Life’ programme is designed for those who want more time, renewed energy, better relationships, and a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Do I want Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps clients to relieve emotional distress, seek solutions to problems in their lives, and to unpack cognitive distortions and unhelpful behaviours that are preventing them from finding contentment, working productively, and enjoying personal relationships.
I help clients with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, depression, anger, trauma, and stress. I also help clients who are navigating life changes, and relationship problems or who are working to overcome past issues that are blocking present joy.
Or is it Wellbeing Life Coaching I am looking for?
Wellbeing Life Coaching supports clients to not only set goals but to also find the motivation and tools to get to their physical and emotional health objectives in a positive, forward-focused, fun, and supportive environment.
I can help you build a life more aligned with your core values and beliefs, highlighting your strengths and uniqueness to create a life that is full of joy, purposeful, forward-focused, and, most importantly, yours.
My work is focused on guiding you as you return to who you truly are.
Testimonials
What my clients Say
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1-2-1 Work with Christine
I offer both counselling psychotherapy and wellbeing life coaching to adults. My therapeutic style is compassion focused, goal oriented and positively challenging.
Purchase Our Journals
Self-Reflect is a journal I designed for you. Each page has a date prompt for you to fill - inviting you to journal only on the days that are right for you. Throughout the journal you will find pops of positivity that I hope you love and at the start of the journal there is a space for your personal self-care affirmation. Enjoy x
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EMAIL: christine@christinedoyle.ie
PHONE: 087 687 1002
Blog
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As a late-diagnosed Autistic I have been challenged on numerous occasions to defend my identity.
And this is the reason - when people hear Autism, they don’t hear difference, they hear deficiency.
Yes life has always been quite overwhelming for me, but I am not deficient.
Yes I have found many social situations confusing and uncomfortable, but I am not disordered.
Absolutely I have a more limited capacity of energy to live life at a pace many find easy, and this does not make me lesser.
Being Autistic doesn’t claim I am any of these things. Me being Autistic simply explains these and my other differences to me.
Because I am Autistic.
Because my neurotype is different.
Not deficient.
#actuallyautistic #lateidentifiedautistic #latediagnosedautistic #autisticadults #autisticadvocate
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Autistic meltdowns are an involuntary response to sensory or emotional overload and overwhelm.
Adult rumination and anxiety is an involuntary response to sensory or emotional overload and overwhelm.
Punishment, subtly or overtly, through ignoring or chastising, does not meet the regulation need of the Autistic, but teaches them to mask and internalise their pain.
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GRATITUDE
I am so grateful to be an active participant in numerous research papers on the experience of late-identified Autistic - this work is creating a safer and more inclusive future for our younger Neurodivergent population
I am now taking bookings for Workplace training - upskilling your workplace to be more inclusive, accommodating and supportive of Autistic employees.
Please note my 1:1 sessions are booked up and I am now taking bookings for October
#autistictraining #autismatwork #autismawareness #autisticadvocate
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Autistic .. because it’s not a dirty word
#actuallyautistic #autistic #autisticadvocate #autisticappreciation #autistictherapist
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NEURO AFFIRMING THERAPY
It is not just that neuro-affirming and neuro-informed therapy is the very least an Autist seeking therapy deserves, it is that any therapy that is not neuro-affirming and neuro-informed can cause so much unintentional harm and damage.
Before last year my understanding of what it was to be Autistic was almost entirely based on the training I received to become a psychotherapist which, was, unfortunately and disappointingly (to say the least), nothing. It was never considered.
I have spent the past year immersed in neuro-affirming training and now accompany women on their self-identification exploration and offer post-identification support for Autistic women.
#actuallyautistic #autistictherapist #neuroaffirmingpractice #neuroaffirmingtherapy
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CAPACITY
Being Autistic means having a limited capacity for stimulation which looks like me only ever being a part-time friend
This can be perceived as being aloof, unavailable, uninterested or self-absorbed but is in fact the result of being easily overwhelmed and a need for a lot of alone time.
The beauty of knowing yourself to be Autistic is that it offers this understanding and takes away the confusion in friendship.
#actuallyautistic #autisticfriendship
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ATTACHMENT
As an Autist I have an emotional attachment to inanimate objects.
There are so many more and this is just a few of them. In society we are often shown images of the Autistic child attached to their toy / Autistic teen who finds deep comfort in gaming, but we don’t often see this represented in a way that late-identified women can see themselves.
Does this resonate with you?
#actuallyautistic #autisticlife #autisticjoy #autistic #lateidentifiedautistic #autistictherapist
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As an Autistic person I am not seeking your acceptance - I wholeheartedly offer that to myself - I have far higher dreams - I am seeking a society where Autistic people are fully … and without qualification or justification … included, accommodated for, and appreciated as equal, valid and important.
#actuallyautistic #autisticadvocate #autisticadvocacy #autistic #autisticpride
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Being Autistic on World Autism Day CAN offer a chance to celebrate all that it is to be Autistic ….. BUT…… it is often also layered with the overwhelming desire to have it meaningful, real, valid, important, perfect … all values inherent to many Autistic people .. which means once again we find ourselves in the all too familiar space of wanting with all our hearts to make this amazing, but all that internal pressure leaves us depleted, and ultimately, immobilised.
#actuallyautistic
