Leanne Chance

Neuroaffirming, Integrative Creative Psychotherapist

I’m an integrative creative psychotherapist working with children, young people, adults, and families. I hold an MSc in Creative Psychotherapy and am certified as an Autistic Workplace Trainer with Anna Freud and NHS England. I bring both professional expertise and lived experience as an AuDHD person and parent to my practice.

My approach is grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm — centring identity-first values, demand-aware relational practice, and a deep respect for the protective intelligence of autistic and PDA nervous systems. I understand burnout not as a failure of the individual, but as the cumulative cost of systems and environments that weren’t designed with our nervous systems in mind.

Whole Thread Therapy offers a genuinely neuroaffirming space — no masking required, no pressure to perform recovery in a particular way, and no pathology-based framing.

Website: wholethreadtherapy.co.uk