Jennifer Kemp - Clinical Psychologist

Jennifer Kemp - Clinical Psychologist Clinical psychologist, speaker, trainer, author. AuDHD clinician passionate about championing Autistic and ADHDer identities and strengths.

Some clients can't stop replaying a conversation after it's over. Every word, every pause, every facial expression gets ...
14/06/2026

Some clients can't stop replaying a conversation after it's over. Every word, every pause, every facial expression gets reviewed for signs that they got it wrong.
This is called a "social autopsy," and for clients with rejection sensitivity, it can last for hours, days or even longer.
In my upcoming webinar, Supporting Clients with Rejection Sensitivity & RSD, we'll look at what's driving this pattern and how to help clients work with it differently.
The webinar is coming up fast.

Two sessions are available to suit different time zones. This webinar will be recorded, but you need to register before the event to access it.

Session 1: ANZ + UK/EU
Eastern Australia: Thursday, 2 July at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEST
United Kingdom: Thursday, 2 July at 9:00 am - 11:00 am BST
Central Europe: Thursday, 2 July at 10:00 am - 12:00 am CEST

Session 2: ANZ + US/Canada
Eastern Australia: Friday, 3 July at 9:00 am – 11:00 am AEST
Eastern US: Thursday, 2 July at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Pacific US: Thursday, 2 July at 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm PDT
Rio de Janeiro: Thursday, 2 July at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm BRT

For more details, check out the link in bio

To register: https://events.humanitix.com/supporting-clients-with-rejection-sensitivity-and-rsd

Last Chance to Register: Rethinking Anxiety in NeurodivergenceAnxiety is one of the most common issues neurodivergent pe...
08/06/2026

Last Chance to Register: Rethinking Anxiety in Neurodivergence
Anxiety is one of the most common issues neurodivergent people bring to therapy — and one that is often misunderstood.
When therapists apply traditional strategies without adapting for neurodivergent differences, therapy feels like gaslighting and becomes more pathologising than helpful.
This two-hour professional development webinar with Jennifer Kemp, clinical psychologist and late-diagnosed Autistic ADHDer, offers a transdiagnostic pathway to understanding and treating anxiety in neurodivergent adolescents and adults.
Drawing on clinical expertise, lived experience and neurodiversity-affirming principles, Jennifer will explore anxiety as fear-based behavioural responding that emerges in the intersection between neurobiological differences and the person’s environment.

This intermediate-level webinar will deepen your skills beyond the basics of neurodiversity-affirming practice and include time for questions. You’ll leave with an evidence-based conceptualisation of anxiety in neurodivergent people, a formulation that balances supporting the person with changing their context, and practical strategies for affirming interventions.

You will also receive numerous resources, including client handouts, e-books and references, to help you apply the learning immediately.

Join me for one of the following sessions:

Session 1: ANZ & UK/EU
Australia Eastern (AEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 6:00 – 8:00 pm
United Kingdom (GMT): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
Central Europe (CEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 10:00 – 12:00 am

Session 2: ANZ & US/Canada
Australia (AEST): Friday, 12 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
US (Eastern): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
US (Pacific): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 4:00 – 6:00 pm

This webinar will be recorded for those who register prior to the event.
You must register before the event to get access to the recording.

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/rethinking-anxiety-in-neurodivergence-2-hrs

Most therapists were not taught how to work with Autistic clients or ADHDers. That's not a failing; it's a structural ga...
04/06/2026

Most therapists were not taught how to work with Autistic clients or ADHDers. That's not a failing; it's a structural gap in the design of clinical education. But it has consequences for the clients who end up in our consulting rooms.

I know this from both sides.

I'm a clinical psychologist who has specialised in neurodivergent presentations for years. I'm also a late-diagnosed Autistic ADHDer, and I've experienced anxiety, depression and had an eating disorder. Before my diagnosis (and still today), I've had therapy with skilled clinicians. Don't get me wrong, it's been useful, mostly.

Yet, sometimes it bombed. The frameworks weren't quite right. The language didn't quite match my experience. I felt an unstated expectation that I should respond differently.

Whether therapy has been helpful has depended entirely on how well I felt understood by the therapist.

The Clinician's Guide to Understanding Autism and ADHD is what I wish my therapists had known.

It's designed to give therapists a thorough grounding in how Autism and ADHD actually present in adults, and a neurodiversity-affirming framework for adapting their practice. It's self-paced learning, and provides 5.5 hours of CEs for US participants, too.

Check out the program here:
https://www.newharbinger.com/pages/nsaa-courses/

You can even try it out with a free lesson on Autistic burnout here:
https://www.newharbinger.com/pages/kemp-free-training/

Four things your neurodivergent clients may struggle with that rarely come up in clinical training:😶‍🌫️ Knowing what the...
02/06/2026

Four things your neurodivergent clients may struggle with that rarely come up in clinical training:

😶‍🌫️ Knowing what their body is telling them (interoception)
🤔 Identifying and labelling emotions accurately (alexithymia)
✨️ Self-soothing through the senses intentionally
💪🏽 Maximising their executive functioning strengths

These aren't side issues. They're essential to self-compassion in Autistic and ADHD people.

I'm walking through each one in my two-part virtual pre-conference workshop at the ACBS World Conference, 5 and 6 June.

⏰️ LAST CHANCE - DON'T MISS OUT

Register here: https://contextualscience.org/2026_kemp

Anxiety is one of the most common presentations in neurodivergent clients — and one of the most frequently misunderstood...
31/05/2026

Anxiety is one of the most common presentations in neurodivergent clients — and one of the most frequently misunderstood.
Join me for my upcoming webinar, Rethinking Anxiety and Neurodivergence.

You’ll learn:
▶️ Why anxiety is so common in neurodivergent people
▶️ How to identify, understand and formulate anxiety
▶️ How to harness strengths to alleviate anxiety
▶️ What neurodiversity-affirming interventions look like in practice

You'll also leave with resources to use immediately, including client handouts, e-books, and references.
This is an intermediate-level webinar, designed to deepen your skills beyond the basics of neurodiversity-affirming practice.

This workshop will be delivered twice. Simply select your preferred session when registering.

Session 1: ANZ & UK/EU
Australia Eastern (AEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 6:00 – 8:00 pm
United Kingdom (GMT): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
Central Europe (CEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 10:00 – 12:00 am

Session 2: ANZ & US/Canada
Australia (AEST): Friday, 12 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
US (Eastern): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
US (Pacific): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 4:00 – 6:00 pm

This webinar will be recorded for those who register prior to the event.
Make sure to register before the event to get access to the recording.

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/rethinking-anxiety-in-neurodivergence-2-hrs

Autistic people and ADHDers show lower levels of self-compassion than their non-neurodivergent peers. Higher rates of se...
28/05/2026

Autistic people and ADHDers show lower levels of self-compassion than their non-neurodivergent peers. Higher rates of self-harm. Higher rates of completed su***de. Shorter lifespans.

This is what chronic shame and minority stress do to a person over time.

And yet most clinical training doesn't address the specific processes that make self-compassion possible for neurodivergent clients.

If you're working in the CBS space and want to change that, I'm presenting a two-part virtual pre-conference workshop as part of the ACBS World Conference this June.

7.5 hours of training over two (half) days. For therapists who are ready to go beyond the basics.

Register here: https://contextualscience.org/2026_kemp

Anxiety is extremely common among neurodivergent people, but standard approaches to anxiety treatment were not built wit...
24/05/2026

Anxiety is extremely common among neurodivergent people, but standard approaches to anxiety treatment were not built with neurodivergent nervous systems in mind.
When we apply it without adapting our approach, without considering what's really driving the anxiety, therapy can end up feeling more pathologising than helpful. We risk targeting the wrong behaviour to change or telling clients their responses are irrational when they aren't.
Anxiety in neurodivergent people usually makes sense. It's an understandable nervous system response to chronic stress, social exclusion, a high masking load, and a lifetime of striving to meet other people’s standards.
Join me for my upcoming webinar, Rethinking Anxiety in Neurodivergence. Over two hours, we’ll explore the drivers of anxiety using a trans-diagnostic approach that can be applied to Autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence such as OCD, paranoia and Tourette’s.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of anxiety in neurodivergence, practical strategies to use with your clients, and helpful resources to support your learning.
This workshop will be delivered twice for people in different time zones. Simply select your preferred time and day when registering.

Session 1: ANZ & UK/EU
Australia Eastern (AEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 6:00 – 8:00 pm
United Kingdom (GMT): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
Central Europe (CEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 10:00 – 12:00 am

Session 2: ANZ & US/Canada
Australia (AEST): Friday, 12 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
US (Eastern): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
US (Pacific): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 4:00 – 6:00 pm

This webinar will be recorded for those who register prior to the event.
Make sure to register before the event to get access to the recording.

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/rethinking-anxiety-in-neurodivergence-2-hrs

Translation: Love is chaos, so let's loveSelf-compassion research is compelling. But if you work with Autistic or ADHD c...
24/05/2026

Translation: Love is chaos, so let's love

Self-compassion research is compelling. But if you work with Autistic or ADHD clients, you've probably noticed that the standard approaches don't always translate.

That's not a failure of the client. It's a gap in how self-compassion is taught.

When someone has spent years absorbing messages that they're broken, lazy, or difficult, self-compassion requires more than mindfulness and kind self-talk.

It requires targeting the skills that internalised ableism has eroded: interoceptive awareness, emotional awareness, sensory regulation, and executive functioning.

I'm covering all this in a two-part virtual pre-conference workshop: 'Process-Based Pathways to Self-Compassion in Neurodivergent People' on 5 and 6 June.

Process-based, affirming, and designed for clinicians who are ready to go beyond the basics.

Link in bio.

New Webinar: Rethinking Anxiety in NeurodivergenceStandard approaches to treating anxiety place the problem inside the p...
18/05/2026

New Webinar: Rethinking Anxiety in Neurodivergence
Standard approaches to treating anxiety place the problem inside the person. In neurodivergent people, that framing is often wrong. Instead, anxiety emerges at the intersection of neurobiological differences and an environment that doesn’t acknowledge or meet that person’s needs. Alleviating anxiety is a delicate balance. You are supporting the person while also addressing the sources of their distress.
In my upcoming webinar, Rethinking Anxiety in Neurodivergence, we will explore anxiety through this frame.
We'll look at what's really driving anxiety in neurodivergent clients, how it presents differently, where standard approaches fall short, and what affirming approaches look like instead.
You'll leave with a clinical framework, practical strategies, and resources to apply the learning immediately.
This workshop will be delivered twice to accommodate different time zones. Select your preferred session when registering.

Session 1: ANZ & UK/EU
Australia Eastern (AEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 6:00 – 8:00 pm
United Kingdom (GMT): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
Central Europe (CEST): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 10:00 – 12:00 am

Session 2: ANZ & US/Canada
Australia (AEST): Friday, 12 Jun 2026 at 9:00 – 11:00 am
US (Eastern): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
US (Pacific): Thursday, 11 Jun 2026 at 4:00 – 6:00 pm

This webinar will be recorded for those who register prior to the event.
Make sure to register before the event to get access to the recording.

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/rethinking-anxiety-in-neurodivergence-2-hrs

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, Praxis is offering 20% off all on-demand courses until May 20, including my ...
05/05/2026

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, Praxis is offering 20% off all on-demand courses until May 20, including my program, 'The Clinician's Guide to Understanding Autism and ADHD'

This is a great opportunity to access this self-paced program with 5.5 CEs at a discounted rate. Use code MHAM2026 at checkout.

Access the programs here: https://www.praxiscet.com/cguaa-course/

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