Vic Brookes
About Vic
Vic Brookes is a qualified counsellor and coach and is currently working on a qualitative post-graduate thesis exploring how ADHD adults experience engagement with professional support.
Vic took a break from work when their daughter was born, and works part-time around her in order to home-educate. Vic has learned a lot about demand avoidance and working with it rather than against it, situational mutism, speech and language differences such as difficulty processing abstract questions (blank levels 3 and 4), gestalt language processing, monotropic thinking, and sensory differences – including interoception. They also have an interest in poly-vagal theory and find that it really helps people understand themselves better.
Wes Wade: USA Only
PhD in Candidate, ELPHD, Counseling & Counselor Education, MA in Career Counseling and MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
About Wes
Wesley has a background in business, higher education, mental health, and substance use work. While working as a career coach at a land grant university in the U.S., Wesley co-created and led a career-focused program for autistic students, led 3 statewide career summits for autistic students, and served on planning committees for state-government programs offering paid internships for autistic college students. Wesley is a trained coach, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, a licensed clinical addictions specialist, and a Ph.D. candidate at NC State University in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development with a concentration in Counseling and Counselor Education.
Zoe Farmer
About Zoe
Zoe joined Genius Within as a career coach and case manager in our employability team in 2018 after working in administration since leaving school. She is currently studying for her degree in psychology and her level 5 professional workplace coaching.
Zoe has lived experience of being unemployed, of masking, of having to pretend she was someone she wasn’t. She understands at a personal level the experience of marginalisation and exclusion. In her own journey, as a single mother in a mixed-race family, she has learned to share with her clients her understanding of how we get misunderstood and how to walk the talk.
