KJ Wiseheart – Counsellor, Narrative Therapist, Therapeutic Gamemaster, Creator

KJ's approach is rooted in the principles of narrative therapy, which offers a supportive and empowering space for neurodivergent folks and others who have felt marginalised. This approach affirms you as the expert in your own life, celebrates the unique skills and hard-won knowledges that have helped you get through the tough times so far, and opens up a curious space for the discovery of new directions you may want to explore.

Narrative therapy employs a non-pathologizing framework, deconstructing ableist discourses, normative expectations, assumptions, and labels or diagnoses that may contribute to stigma.

The stories we tell about ourselves don’t just come out of nowhere. Often, the narratives we believe have been shaped – to some degree - by other people. For those who have faced abuse, bullying, or social exclusion, the harsh and unfair judgments from others can linger, distorting how we see ourselves. Queer and trans individuals often face the impact of homophobia and transphobia, while ableism and neuronormativity perpetuate harmful and stigmatising views of Autistic and other neurodivergent people. Even when we reject these discourses, they are not rendered completely powerless in our lives. We continue to deal with their effects on us, and on those around us.

But you have the right to define your experiences in your own words, on your own terms. It’s your life. You are the storyteller, and you get to decide how the story is told. A narrative-based approach can support you to reclaim those storytelling rights, to take charge of your own life story, so you can tell it in ways that align with your most cherished hopes, and your most preferred ways of being.

KJ welcomes all colours of the double rainbow, offering gender-affirming care, and a poly- and kink-affirming, trauma-informed space, to support you through life transitions, complex relationship dynamics, and the difficulties that may accompany experiences of being "othered", dealing with fluctuating capacity, and resisting normativity.

As a late-identified multiply-neurodivergent human, KJ has lived experience, as well as professional experience in supporting folks with:

- Later-in-life identification of neurodivergence
- Parenting as a neurodivergent individual or parenting neurodivergent children
- Autistic burnout resistance and recovery
- Conditions of chronic pain and/or illness
- Co-occurring conditions and/or disabilities
- Emergent identities across gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity
- Trans and non-binary experiences of neurodivergence
- Navigating multiple marginalized identities simultaneously
- Career and life transitions
- Neurodivergent elders facing age-related changes