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Pilot course
Circle of Security Parenting for Families with (Possibly) Autistic Members
Many families with autistic members find that traditional parenting advice doesn’t quite fit.
Often, the underlying challenge is understanding how to navigate the need for connection, sensory sensitivities, and nervous system regulation.
When we look at behaviour through a neuro-affirming attachment lens, it begins to make more sense, pressure decreases, and the connections between you and your child feel safer and closer, without asking anyone to become less autistic.
This course can help families to nurture secure attachment by honouring the neurotype of every person in the family.
Circle of Security Parenting can help you:
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Practice noticing when your child cues attachment needs and meet them in ways that work for you and your child
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Let go of approaches that create pressure or disconnection, and discover parenting with more ease and understanding
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Feel more confident in your parenting and deepen your trust in yourself and your relationship with your child
Modules
We will work through the Circle of Security Parenting curriculum in its entirety, exploring timeless attachment principles. Alongside the themes covered in the course, we will use our reflections and discussions to consider how autistic traits, sensory differences, nervous system regulation, and executive functioning can shape the way those needs can be expressed and how we can meet them. Each session will be unique because our conversations will be guided by the participants' experiences and questions. This combination of structured learning and personal reflections helps to create a space where each family can discover what attachment security looks like for them.
Module 1: Welcome to Circle of Security Parenting
Discover how we can see the world through our children's eyes and understand the emotional needs underneath their behaviours.
Module 2: Exploring Our Children's Needs All the Way Around the Circle
Learn to recognise the subtle cues your child is sending you and become more confident in understanding what they may need in different moments.
Module 3: “Being-With” on the Circle
Strengthen your child's trust that you can handle their inner world and help them feel safe even when emotions become intense.
Module 4: Being With Infants on the Circle
Reconnect with your sense of delight in your child and deepen your appreciation of who they are. Together, we will explore how curiosity, acceptance, and understanding can help children feel valued for their unique strengths, interests, and way of experiencing the world.
Module 5: The Path to Security
Learn to separate reflection from blame so that you can grow as a parent with greater compassion and confidence. We will explore how our attachment histories and neurotypical expectations can sometimes get in the way of seeing what our children truly need.
Module 6: Exploring Our Struggles
Discover what makes it difficult to choose security in the moment and learn how to respond with greater awareness and intention.
Module 7: Rupture and Repair in Relationships
Transform parenting "failures" into opportunities for deepening trust, understanding, and connection. We will explore how moments of conflict, misunderstanding, or overwhelm can reveal important information about capacity and become opportunities for repair and growth.
Module 8: Summary and Celebration
Bring together everything you have learned, revisit any concepts that still feel unclear, and reflect on how you would like to carry this understanding forward. Together, we will consider how to continue building security, connection, and capacity-aware parenting in everyday family life.
Join Circle of Security Parenting for Families with (Possibly) Autistic Members
There are two ways to do this course: one-to-one or in a group.
One-to-one
Length: 8 90-minute weekly or fortnightly sessions
Location: online, via Zoom
Start date: flexible
Fee (three half-price spots are available for the first three parents to sign up for the pilot course):
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2 monthly payments of £295
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Pay in full and save: one payment of £570
Booking: please click the button below to fill in the client agreement form and make the payment.
Group
Length: 8 weekly 90-minute sessions
Location: online, via Zoom
Start date: Monday, July 6, 2026
Time: 7.30-9 pm
Fee (half price for the parents joining the pilot group):
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2 monthly payments of £75
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Pay in full and save: one payment of £145
Booking: please click the button below to fill in the client agreement form and set up the monthly payments.
If you would like to explore how Circle of Security Parenting can help you, please book a Zoom call to talk it through:
You will also receive...
Capacity Aware Parenting is about creating opportunities to pause, notice, reflect, and make small adjustments over time. That's why after each session, I'll send you a Reflection on Connection: a short guided audio reflection designed to help revisit the ideas we explored together and make them your own. These reflections will help you stay connected to what you are exploring and translate it into your day-to-day parenting.
Frequently asked questions
What happens during the sessions?
There are three parts to each session:
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Checking in about your week, your observations, reflections, wins and challenges.
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Studying the course material: each session covers an essential piece of information about developing secure relationships. The content is delivered in a highly interactive and relatable way through videos of parents and their children, graphics and plenty of time for reflection and discussions that will help you to weave your insights into your day-to-day parenting.
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End of session reflection offers an opportunity to decide what you would like to take away from the session and explore further during the coming week.
Do I need to do anything between sessions?
The most important thing is to keep your insights from the previous session in your awareness as you go about your day-to-day parenting. It’s not about doing more; it’s about doing differently.