Neurodivergent support for everyday life, relationships and work
Glad We Talked® is a platform for neurodivergent people and the people around them, offering practical learning, community membership, workshops and training.
Support before, during and after diagnosis. No diagnosis needed.
Discover one to one support, Finding My Steady - our signature programme, join The Steady Club or explore ways to bring the learning into your organisation.
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES & ORGANISATIONS
Finding My Steady. Less Stress. More Joy
Our nervous systems are always communicating, often before we can find the words. Noticing their signals can help us understand our responses. We bring accessible brain–body science together with practical ways to understand how our needs, experiences, relationships and surroundings affect everyday life.
Communication is at the heart of this: expressing a need, setting a boundary or asking for support - creating more opportunities for joy, rest, care, choice and connection.
In Relationships
Recognise overwhelm, shutdown and defensiveness - and respond with curiosity rather than assumptions, escalation or conflict.
In Parenting and Caregiving
Understand how behaviour can reflect a nervous system state rather than bad intentions, supporting steadier responses and fewer power struggles.
In Communication and Self-Advocacy
Notice body signals, express your needs, set boundaries and ask for support - especially when words are difficult to find.
In Mental and Emotional Health
Recognise stress and overwhelm earlier, helping to prevent escalation, reduce shame and support steadier wellbeing.
In Our Relationship With Our Bodies
Listen to signals such as fatigue, tension and sensory overload, so that you can respond to your needs and reduce the likelihood of burnout.
5 Self-Paced Modules & In App Support
One programme, different lenses
Choose a lens that connects the learning with your life, relationships or work.
Families and parents
Less shouting, arguing and miscommunication at home: a gentle, nervous-system approach for parents, caregivers, kinship carers and blended families.
Adulting and intimate relationships
Find more supportive ways to navigate difficult conversations, misunderstandings, changing needs and moments of disconnection together.
Explore Adulting and Intimate Relationships
Emerging adults and students aged 16 to 25
Explore changing responsibilities, relationships and greater independence, including communicating your needs and asking for support in education, work and everyday life.
Explore Emerging Adults and Students
Mental health and wellbeing practitioners
Bring nervous-system-first understanding into your practice and support communication when emotions feel overwhelming or words are difficult to find.
Explore the Practitioner Programme
In the workplace
Develop a shared language for overwhelm, communication needs, boundaries and repair—while creating healthier and more neuroinclusive working relationships.
Explore Finding My Steady in the Workplace
Educators
Trauma-informed and beyond: CPD for everyone who works in a school, with polyvagal insights, live calls and a certificate.
Explore Finding My Steady for Educators
The Steady Club - monthly membership
A place to practise getting steadier, together
Completed the programme? Don't stop there.
Recognising a familiar pattern doesn’t always mean knowing what to do when it happens again in the moment. The Steady Club offers ongoing opportunities to explore everyday experiences, practise The R.U.D Process® and consider manageable next steps with others. Each month brings four live group calls and one shared emotion theme, alongside a journal and toolbox for reflection between sessions.
Join the conversation or listen. There’s no pressure to share.
- Understand the behaviour.
- Recognise what’s underneath it.
- Practise a different response.
- Reflect and Tweak
Recognise the 4 S
Notice the situation, your state, the story you're telling yourself and the sensations in your body. Knowing what's happening is different from knowing what to do with it.
Understand & Unravel
We turn insight into action — helping you move from "Why is this happening?" to "I understand what's happening, and I know what I can do next. And if that doesn't work — it's not a problem. I can try something else."
Diffuse & Develop
Diffuse ingrained patterns and develop your evolving personalised toolkit - because there is no one-size-fits-all.
The Steady Club
4 Live Calls Each Month
For organisations and communities
Work with Glad We Talked®
Workshops, training and talks
Bring the learning into your organisation or community
- Neurodivergent experiences, strong emotions, communication and relationships
- Accessible explanations, discussion, reflection and everyday examples
- Optional practical or creative activities
- Shaped around your audience, access needs and what you want people to understand or do afterwards
For practitioners, schools, NHS and health teams, workplaces, parent and caregiver groups, and community organisations.
Explore Workshops, Training and Talks
Programme access and licensing
Offer Finding My Steady through your practice or service
- Access for staff, clients or service users
- The programme lens and resources that fit your setting
- Agreed access, resource sharing and licensing
- Options to present the programme within your service or under your own branding
For independent practitioners, group practices, schools, workplaces, and health and care organisations.
Explore Programme Access and Licensing
Social value partnerships
Help make neurodivergent support more accessible
- Work with Watoto Play, the company behind Glad We Talked®
- Fund free or subsidised programme places
- Develop local skills and support creative health workshops
- Create paid opportunities for people with lived experience
Together, we’ll agree activities and proportionate measures that reflect your community and social value priorities.
Explore Social Value Partnerships
From our insights
Free neurodivergent resources and articles
Explore communication, relationships, sensory needs and everyday life through our free resources and articles.
Get to know our approach and choose a starting point that interests you.
A Short Guide to Therapy: What It Is, Who It's For and How to Start
What therapy is, who it's for and how to start, including creative counselling and support for neurodivergent, multi-heritage and mixed-faith clients.
How Do I Know What Support I Need? Resources, Courses, Memberships or One-to-One Therapy
Free resources, self-paced courses, a membership or one-to-one therapy? Three questions to help you decide where to start.
How to Communicate Your Needs When You're Neurodivergent
Working out what you need, scripts for partners, family and work, reasonable adjustments in the UK, and what to do when people don't listen.
Why moving helps: a polyvagal-informed way for teens to talk about feelings
Ask a teenager how they feel and you might get a shrug. Moving a figure along a track can say what words can't. Here are five reasons it helps, and a simple way to try it.
What Happens in Your First Counselling Session?
From booking and your account to what we talk about and how you might feel afterwards: what to expect in a first session.
Emotion cards for teenagers: 7 ways to use feelings cards at home, school and in sessions
Most feelings cards are made for young children. Here are seven ways to use emotion cards with teenagers, at home, in school and in sessions.
Frequently asked questions
What is Glad We Talked®?
Glad We Talked® is a platform bringing together practical learning, community membership, workshops and training for neurodivergent people and the people around them. Organisations can also explore programme access, licensing and social value partnerships.
What is Finding My Steady?
Finding My Steady is our signature programme exploring neurodivergence, communication, emotions, relationships and everyday life. Its different lenses connect the learning with family life, adulting, education, work and professional practice.
Do I need a diagnosis?
No. You can explore support before, during and after diagnosis, or without pursuing a diagnosis. You don’t need a diagnostic label to recognise your needs or consider what could help.
What is the difference between Finding My Steady and The Steady Club?
Finding My Steady offers structured programme learning. The Steady Club is an ongoing monthly membership with live group calls and opportunities to practise The R.U.D Process® using everyday experiences.
Can organisations work with Glad We Talked®?
Yes. Practitioners and organisations can discuss programme access, licensing, bespoke workshops, training, talks and social value partnerships.