Ms Tara O'Donnell-Killen:

In Thriving Autistic, we are all, as I said, neurodivergent and we are all professionals. We are psychologists and occupational therapists etc. We have some psychology clinics, actually pioneered by the Adult Autism Practice. It funds a one-to-one session with an autistic psychologist or occupational therapist who is one of our people. It provides us with some funding from everyone they diagnose and then we support that person and give them one session free of charge. That funds our professional to do the session. We all offer sessions on a donation basis. We have groups which we run for people who have just been identified whether that has been professionally or that they have realised within themselves. We provide six-week and monthly support groups as well which are facilitated by psychologists or occupational therapist professionals. We do not have Government funding for that so we are obviously limited in our capacity. On the plus side, we are entirely remote and because we are an online-based service, anyone can access it if they have access to an Internet connection and a device.