CPCAB Level 5 Award in Understanding Neurodivergence and Trauma
Enquiries – please contact Preeti Bath at preeti-bath@outlook.com for September dates.
BCTS in collaboration with Preeti Bath
This Level 5 award offers those in the teaching and helping professions a specialist and affirming training in neurodivergence, with a strong focus on lived experience, sensory processing, client autonomy, and identity safety.
You’ll explore the intersections between trauma and neurodivergence, unmasking, shutdown, and overstimulation, while learning how to work with neurodivergent clients/pupil in a way that honours their full humanity. The course invites you to move beyond pathology models into relational, liberatory, and adaptive practice.
Ideal for practitioners seeking to work more confidently with autism, ADHD, sensory differences, PDA profiles, and related experiences — whether personally or professionally.
Training sessions
9 workshops over 3 months, held online, via zoom, every other Tuesday and Saturday, combining theory, group exploration, skills integration, and lived-experience reflections.
Assessment
- Case study
- Reflections
- Skills practice
- Ongoing portfolio work
- Final written assignment
Entry Requirements
- Must hold a minimum of Level 4 diploma in the helping professions e.g. counsellor, psychotherapist, nurse, teacher, social worker, life coach for example
- A willingness to reflect on power, language, and identity
- Experience working with or alongside neurodivergent clients is helpful but not essential
- Be able to stabilise self throughout training and be willing to engage in personal therapy should the need arise.
- Complete Application Form
- Email to Preeti Bath preeti-bath@outlook.com
- With your Level 4 diploma and photographed ID
- Upon receipt, secure your place with £300 deposit