Two Cambridge NAS Branch Talks by David Moat coming up
Both talks will be held at the Meadows Community Centre, 7.30 pm in Room 2.
These Talks have been organised by the Cambridge Branch NAS and are free, however donations at the door will be gratefully received to cover the costs of room hire.
The address of the Meadows centre is : 1 St Catherine's Road, Cambridge, Cambs, CB4 3XJ
A useful website for directions and bus information is: http://www.cambridgeshire.net/organisation/meadows-community-centre-the/10474.aspx
The first talk is on 2nd June about:
Stress Management for Carers
An evening talk from David Moat, an experienced practitioner and
psychotherapist working with the autism spectrum. Having worked with
individuals and families around the field of autism for some 26 years,
David has become very familiar with the signs of stress that emanate from
this condition. His work as a psychotherapist has enabled him to combine
his experiences and understandings into a stress management approach
aimed specifically at the families and carers of people with autism
spectrum disorders.
The second talk is on 29th September about
Psychotherapy for the autism spectrum
An evening talk from David Moat, an experienced practitioner and
psychotherapist working with the autism spectrum. David will look at
emotional perception and expression in autism, and how psychotherapy can
be useful in achieving behavioural changes and anger management.
His starting point is that experiencing an autism spectrum
disorder in a largely neuro-typical world is bound to create various
stresses, traumas and altered perceptions, and that therefore
psychotherapeutic approaches may well have some value.
Biographical Notes:
David has worked in the field of autism for some 26 years. He has
combined this with his psychotherapeutic studies at the School of
Analytic and Cognitive Hypnotherapy (SACH - for whom he is now a senior
tutor). He can now offer specialist counselling and advice often hard to
find in more general health and learning disability settings. Having
recently moved to Cambridge, from Essex, he now lives locally with his
wife (who is a Play Therapist).
David is author of ASSIST: Asperger Syndrome - Social Integration
Skills Training, and more publications are planned over the next year or
so.
