intandem offers:
- Individual stammering therapy and counselling for people who stammer and/or their families & friends
- Advocacy and support to assist you in navigating life choices including relationships, work, health and education services
- A bi-monthly ‘open space’ group to meet other people who stammer (more details)
Starting points
Starting points may vary from person to person. We aim to support you to find a way forward that feels right for you
Supporting communication
- Increasing your understanding of how your stammering is influencing your life choices and how you feel about yourself
- Increasing your communication network, opportunities and confidence
- Exploring how the ways society frames and understands difference is influencing how you feel and think about your stammering
- Identifying the attitudinal and environmental barriers you might be encountering and possible responses
- Creating a stammer-friendly environment (e.g. supporting you to educate key people in your communication network)
- Working with your family and/or friends as you see relevant
Navigating the future
- Supporting you to look at your current situation and the changes you want to make
- Exploring your core values and the extent to which you are currently living by these
- Exploring personal goals. These can be smaller goals (e.g. making phone calls, meeting new people) through to more ambitious goals (e.g. saying your wedding vows, giving a best man’s speech, job interviews or promotion at work)
- Breaking down your aspirations into manageable steps to help you move forward
Building relationships
- Supporting you in maintaining meaningful personal and professional relationships and in developing new ones
- Working with you individually or with key people in your family, friendship groups, education or work context, both separately and together
- Providing education, information and training to you and to those who are important to you
Exploring feelings and emotions
- Offering you a safe and confidential space to talk openly without judgement about your experiences and feelings with someone outside of your family and friendship groups
- Supporting you to develop an understanding of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours at this time
- Developing your ability to harness your emotions to develop your personal resilience
- Supporting you to make choices and decisions that feel right for you now and in the future