Practicum placement
Train Where Neurodivergence Belongs
🌱 Expressions of interest for practicum placements are open, reach out to apply.
Why NWC
A Placement That Shapes How You Practice
🧠 Neurodivergent-Led Supervision
Supervision offered by an AuDHD RCC and doctoral candidate, bringing lived experience directly into clinical mentorship.
🎓 Research-Grounded Practice
Active doctoral research on neurodiversity-affirming practice informs the clinical environment, you will train in a setting that engages with current evidence.
🌏 Cultural & TCK Identity
Yuka grew up in Singapore as a Japanese person, bringing a Third Culture Kid lens to neurodivergence and identity in clinical work and supervisions.
🤝 Intersectional Perspective
Race, culture, and identity are centred alongside neurodivergence in all clinical work and supervision.
🔅 Adult-Focused
We specialize in neurodivergent adults, including late-identified and self-identified individuals, a population whose clinical needs are often underserved even in neurodiversity spaces.
🌱 A Long-Term Home
For the right fit, practicum at NWC can open the door to a contracted associate counsellor role once you graduate.
The Experience
What You Will Gain
A practicum at NWC is an opportunity to develop clinical skills, with supervision, consultation, and exposure to a client population that most training programs do not adequately prepare you for.
Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice Foundations
Understanding what neurodiversity-affirming care means in practice beyond the language. Examining internalized ableism and neuronormativity in practice.
Case Consultation
Case consultation from a neurodiversity-affirming lens. How to conceptualize, approach, and adapt your therapy.
Adapting Therapy Modalities
How to adapt evidence-based modalities, including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness, to better fit neurodivergent clients. What works, what doesn't, and why.
Cultural Identity & Neurodivergence
Understanding the intersection of neurodivergence, cultural identity, and the Third Culture Kid (TCK) experience is a rarely addressed area.
Late-Identified & Self-Identified Neurodivergence
Supporting adults who are newly identified, self-identified, or exploring neurodivergence. How to hold this sensitively and affirmingly in a clinical context.
ADHD, Autism, AuDHD & Co-occurring Conditions
How ADHD, autism, AuDHD, anxiety, depression, and trauma present in neurodivergent adults, and what that means for affirming care.
Being a Neurodivergent Clinician
For neurodivergent practicum students navigating professional identity, masking at work, self-disclosure with clients, and building a sustainable affirming practice from the start of your clinical career.
current neurodiversity research
Drawing on active doctoral research in neurodiversity, what the current evidence base actually says, and how to apply it in affirming clinical practice.
Your supervisor
Meet Yuka
Yuka Oshimi
MC, RCC-ACS (c), DCP(c), ADHD-CCSP
Yuka is a neurodivergent Registered Clinical Counsellor of Japanese background, raised in Singapore, bringing lived Third Culture Kid experience into clinical supervision and practice.
Questions?
Whether you're ready to apply or just exploring, feel free to reach out. We are happy to answer questions about the placement, supervision, or what clinical training at NWC looks like.