Experienced, trauma-skilled, creative therapy
£65 per session
(44) 0330 223 8 123
Ciamar a Tha? (Scots Gaelic greeting - How are you?)
Welcome traveller. Regardless of whether you do or don’t identify as queer or neurodivergent you are welcome here. We hope you will feel affirmed to be whoever you are as you visit our site.
The term neuroqueer includes all who have felt squeezed into a mould that doesn’t fit.
Your uniqueness needs celebration, not compensation or to be fixed in any way.
However the accumulated trauma that follows folk who are not fitting in with the seeming majority, can be a huge drag on feeling creative, free, playful and taking up our space in the world.
Neuroqueering is also an activity/theory promoting ‘decolonisation’ and freedom from misplaced shame as a result of our amazing diversity which we were told was not OK.
NQLab offers you a creative but safe and cooperative space where cultural assumptions can be paused, oppressions unpacked and any distressed parts met with curiosity, compassion & courage.
Alistair and Justine understand these intersections from a deeply personal place.
Our staff are
trained as Therapists
& Social workers. This gives us a deep understanding of interactions between social and emotional wellbeing.
“Principles of social justice, human rights & respect for diversities inform a span of activities including various forms of therapy and counselling, group work, and community work. From an emancipatory perspective, it increases people’s hope, self-esteem and creative potential to confront and challenge oppressive power dynamics &
structural injustices” IFSW
Approaches and influences
Internal Family Systems
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Somatic Work
Cognitive Analytic Therapy
Trauma Therapy
Creative Action Methods
Unconditional Positive Regard
Coaching
Psychospiritual
Will it work for me?
We hope you’ll find relief from having to explain/translate minority stresses and neurodiverse
and/or queer experience. Click on the name of a practitioner on the top left to find out more.
Finding the right relational fit & therapeutic alliance is consistently found to be more influential than the perfect modality in repeated meta studies of talking therapy outcomes. We offer different practitioners with a range of skills, face to face and online work, and training for organisations.
NQ Lab is NOT a service focusing on diagnosis or advice within the medical paradigm.
Rather it’s a safe, supportive space for advanced personal growth.
NQ Lab will support you to build on your own internal awareness and grow inner trust.
Links for further exploring:
More about the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach and free IFS Institute webinars
More on Unconditional Positive Regard
